Thing 4

Okay, finally got this to work.  Thank you Ashley for all your help.

Here is the original picture:

Here is the manipulated version from iPhoto:

I cropped it, manipulated the color balance, and used one of the Ink effects to created the brushstroke appearance.  The process of using iPhoto was easy and I think would be fun for kids.  I am very interested in the thinking skills behind having students choose and manipulate images from around them to illustrate their work.

The difficulties I had with the assignment had to do with getting the images off the iPad and actually uploading them into my blog.  I'm hoping that using Edmodo will make this process easier, because using Google Drive on the iPad has been difficult for me, and our elementary students will not have accounts anyway.

I want to use this process with fourth grade students in creating book trailers.  Choosing a limited number of images to represent the themes and important events in a book will help students with summarizing, understanding theme and symbolism, analyzing characters, and other higher level thinking skills our fourth graders need to move deeper in their reading.