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Rockstar Mission
Rockstar Mission
Take Out That Camera in Your Pocket and ...
Introduce Yourself
- Take a selfie
- Check out Taking the Perfect Selfie on your Phone for some hints on taking a better selfie.
- Add your name (or twitter handle) and your favorite quote to your selfie using Phonto app (iOS / Android).
- Email your completed selfie with quote to main24earth@photos.flickr.com. In the Subject include the theme of your quote and your name (or twitter handle).
Take Pictures
- Download any of the apps that you are interested in trying out.
- Look at the Other Resources on the right-hand side for any tips or tricks you might need to use.
- Take lots of photos!
Edit & Share Your Pictures
- Download Flickr app (iOS / Android / Windows)
- Join Flickr and make sure to join our Flickr Group
- Search for CUE Rockstar Solana Beach 2013 OR
- Go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/rs-solana13/
- Download any of the editing apps you would like to try.
- Upload your favorite photos to Flickr and add to our Flickr Group.
- Share some of your photos on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook. Be sure to tag them with #cuerockstar!
CUE Rockstar Camp Assignment
Complete one (or more) of the options below:
- 6 Word Story or Illustrated Poem about CUE Rockstar Camp - Share in our Flickr Group.
- 6 Picture Story about CUE Rockstar Camp - If this ends up as one image (using a frame app), share in our Flickr Group. If more than one image, share as a Discussion item in our Flickr Group.
- CUE Rockstar Camp ThingLink - Share a link to your ThingLink on the Padlet Wall.
- iVerb image about CUE Rockstar Camp - Share in our Flickr Group.
- CUE Rockstar Camp Trading Card - Share in our Flickr Group.
- Come up with your own idea and make sure to share it with the rest of us!
Resources
Resources
Taking Pictures
Apps
- Phonto (iOS / Android - FREE)
- Camera+ (iOS - $.99)
- Camera Zoom FX (Android - $2.99)
- Pro HDR (iOS / Android - $1.99)
- Instagram (iOS / Android - FREE)
- Hipstamatic (iOS - $.99 + in app purchases)
- Oggl (iOS - FREE + Subscription)
- Flickr (iOS / Android - FREE)
- Slow Shutter (iOS - $.99)
- Light trails, ghost images, waterfall effects
Resources from Presentation
- The Best Camera Video
- Rule of Thirds Video
- Who Said That? Quotes from Presentation:
Other Resources:
- iPhone Photography School - Tips
- Hidden iPhone Photography Tricks Video
- Tips for Better iPhone Photography
- Mobile Phone Photography
- The Beginners Lens
- iPhone Photography & Instagram tips
- iPhoneography by Nicole Dalesio
- iDownloadBlog: iPhone Photography
Photographers to Follow (who also happen to be teachers)
Editing & Sharing Pictures
Apps for Editing
- Snapseed (iOS/Android - FREE)
- Adobe Photoshop Express (iOS/Android - FREE - $4.99)
- Adobe Photoshop Touch (iOS/Android - $4.99 phone & $9.99 tablet)
- Be Funky Go Mobile (iOS/Android - Free w/in-app purchases)
- AfterFocus (iOS $.99 / Android - FREE & Pro $1.99)
- Color Effects (iOS)/Color FX (Android) FREE
- PicFrame (iOS/Android - $.99)
- GroupShot
- (iOS - $.99)
- Diptic (iOS/Android - $.99 w/in-app purchases)
- Photo collages
Storing & Sharing
- Flickr
- Desktop, Apps, can email photos to an account, 1 terabyte of storage
- Picasa
- Desktop, can email photos to an account, Integrated with Google+, 3rd party apps (iOS - Web Albums $5.99-$6.99, Android - Picasa Mobile $.99)
- Dropbox
- Can set to auto upload from your camera. Photo albums for organization.
Resources from Presentation & More
- Snapseed App Overview Video
- Learn Snapseed
- How to Edit Great iPhone Pics with Must Have Photo Apps by Nicole Dalesio
- Who Said That? Quotes from Presentation:
Classroom Uses
- Six Word Stories
- Lesson Plans
- SMITHTeens
- Is Hemingway story true? Good tie-in for Digital Citizenship
- Six Picture Stories
- Learning to Roar! - Flickr 4 picture story example
- Telling a Story in 6 Photos
- Meme Generator
- Best Part of Me
- Students show what they know:
- Document science labs or other processes
- Go on shape or angle "hunts"
- Make a class alphabet book using photos taken by students
- Take pictures of work done on paper to share electronically
- Field Trip Ideas:
- Instagram Scavenger Hunt
- Students take photos on field trips & email to class Flickr or Picasa account or use Thinglink to "annotate" pictures with text, web links, YouTube videos, etc. Check out Nancy Minicozzi's blog post about using ThingLink.
- Treasure Hunts using Klikaklu
- (iOS, free to play, $1.99 to remove ads, $4.99 to upgrade to create hunts)
- Create a class photo library in Flickr.
- Share these as Creative Commons and allow others to use your photos too!
- Automatically blog these using IFTTT recipe.
- Use for end of year slideshows and student presentations.
- Silhouette Ideas:
- Adjective or getting to know you lesson at beginning of the year using student silhouette photos. Check out Nicole Dalesio's tutorial on Photoshop Touch Silhouettes
- Create iVerb images based on iPod Silhouette ads. Refer to Nicole's Dalesio's tutorial above for creating silhouettes using apps.
- Big Huge Labs
- Education accounts that let teachers set up classes & use site ad-free. Can upload photos directly without needing an account at all.
- Motivational Posters
- Movie Posters
- Magazine Covers
- Trading Cards - great for getting to know students at beginning of the year or have students dress as a book character or historical figure and create trading cards for them.
- Create Stop Motion Videos from a series of photos
- iMotion HD FREE/$1.99 for full version (iOS)
- OSnap FREE/$2.99 for full version (iOS)
- Lego Movie Maker FREE (iOS)
- No voiceovers in this so will need to use something like iMovie to do that.
- 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras - applies to mobile photography as well!
- Literacy Through Photography
- Who Said That? Quotes from Presentation:
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