1. Web 2.0 Tools: Learning with Media - Images Monday January 11

3. Images in Learning

4. Tools for Images

5. Finding Images

6. Editing Images

9. Learning with Media - Images What did you see in that image ? (The previous image was created using a program called “Textorizer” – it allows a background image to be overlaid with text)

10. Learning with Media - Images An image is a two-dimensional representation that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image

12. a photograph

13. a drawing or painting

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16. http://www.msad54.org/sahs/MathDept/CPMP/M1U5/images/basic_isometric_shapes.jpg

17. Learning with Media - Images As we see, an image is a two-dimensional representation. * The 3-D shapes in the previous image are still 2 dimensional – it is just that our brain “sees” them as having depth, length and width.

18. Learning with Media - Images An image can not only be visual – it can also be mental. When we view (or recollect) a place or event or thing, we form a mental image of it.

19. Learning with Media - Images If you think of images as mental, then you have to consider that the viewer can influence his/her interpretation of the subject of the image.

20. Learning with Media - Images Recollection of past events, places and things can be influenced by new information, thus possibly “altering” the image.

21. Learning with Media - Images Think of how written or verbal information, instructions and knowledge are created.

22. Learning with Media - Images Now think of how easily information, instructions and knowledge can be misinterpreted – because of the viewer/receiver’s context, history and perspective.

23. Learning with Media - Images Often images are used by themselves to convey information. Of course, both the creator and viewer have to have a common understanding of the meaning.

24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image

25. Learning with Media - Images Does a picture (image) have any connection or relevance to a fixed number of words ? Does a picture (image) have to have any connection or relevance to any words ?

26. Learning with Media - Images When using images for educational purposes, we need to be aware of how meaningful an image can be, or not.

28. Finding Images

29. Editing Images

32. crop

33. add text