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On the first day of class I take a picture of every student.\u00a0 I don’t have a nice plain wall to use as a background.\u00a0 I pull the projector screen down in the front of the room and have each student stand in front of it.\u00a0 It works well.<\/p>\n
As I take each picture, I have the students write their names on a sheet of paper.\u00a0 The camera saves the pictures as files with consecutive numbers at the end of the file names.\u00a0\u00a0 After class I rename each picture using the student’s name from the gradebook.\u00a0 I use Irfanview<\/a>‘s Thumbnail tool to create a contact sheet for each class (insert is pixelated to protect the identities of my students).\u00a0 I use this to learn the names of the students.<\/p>\n After making the contact sheet, I resize all the pictures to 1024×768 and store them in the document area of Blackboard.\u00a0 We use the pictures in several assignments during the semester.\u00a0 We make several PowerPoint presentations using the pictures.\u00a0 When we format Word documents, I have them place their own picture at the top of the document (makes it easy to know who the paper belongs to) and format text around it.\u00a0 I use them in another lesson that requires the student to demonstrate knowledge of cropping.\u00a0 In one assignment I have each student select a graphics program and add text over the picture.<\/p>\n The only thing I do not have them do is place the pictures on a public network, which is why I have pixelated the contact sheet in this post.\u00a0 That leads to discussions on privacy and copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the first day of class I take a picture of every student.\u00a0 I don’t have a nice plain wall to use as a background.\u00a0 I pull the projector screen down in the front of the room and have each … Continue reading