Visual Media

(1) Photo & Video Library

• VIDEO: Organizing photos from your phone in a cloud folder [2:17]

• VIDEO: Organizing files on Google Drive [13:37]

• VIDEO: Incorporating files in your website [9:32] 

Task: Create a media folder (example) with organized subfolders for photos and videos that support your lessons. Having visual media readily available allows you to respond quickly to students’ spontaneous needs and make instruction more engaging and effective.

(2) Photo/Video - Indexing & Organization Methods

• Apple Photos and Google Photos both index images using date, location, people, and basic metadata, but they differ significantly in how deeply their systems analyze content. Apple Photos emphasizes privacy and relies heavily on on-device machine learning, identifying faces, places, scenes, and objects while offering user-controlled organization through albums and Smart Albums. It provides clean chronological browsing and curated Memories but keeps analysis relatively contained to protect user data. Google Photos, by contrast, uses cloud-based AI, enabling much more powerful recognition of objects, scenes, pets, text, documents, and even abstract concepts. Its search engine can interpret natural language (“my red car at night”), and it automatically generates extensive collections such as trips, events, and thematic Memories. While both services offer favorites, duplicates detection, and shared albums, Google Photos provides deeper indexing and stronger automatic categorization, whereas Apple Photos provides more privacy-focused, structured, and user-driven organization.

• Task: Complete this checklist for the photo source you use. 

• Task: Provide examples of images you have found using each of the techniques and specify the approach used.

(3) Graphics- Commenting on Photos

• VIDEO:  Commenting on photos [1:55]

Task: Working in breakout rooms, obtain the comments of your colleagues on photos of interest.  Sample: Lab safety

• Example 1: Lab Safety Infractions

• Example 2:  Identify features in a musical score.

• Task: Obtain student comments on a photo or diagram relevant to the subject you teach.

(4) Graphics - AI Image Editing

• VIDEO: AI Image editing [TBD]

Task: Use a variety of image editing tools in Pixlr or other AI image editor to modify an image to meet a specific need.  Include a movie to show how you  editied your image.

(5) Image Maps

• VIDEO: Image Maps [5:02]

• Task: Contribute to the class image map (Netherlandish Proverbs).  Copy the image from the original painting to the appropriate slide, and generate a version of new visual of the parable  using Pixlr AI Image creator

• Task: Create an image map for your own discipline

(6) Videos - Screen Recordings

• VIDEO: Screen recordings using ScreenCastify [5:53]

Task: Use ScreenCastify to create two instructional screen-recording videos for your students.  The videos should illustrate scientific principles or how to accomplish technical/computer-based tasks.  ScreenCastify records in WebM format. WebM was built for the web. You can play videos directly in your web browser using HTML5.  If you want to play WebM video offline, you may convert WebM to MP4 or convert WebM to AVI with the help of a free webm video converter.

(7) Videos - Editing Screen Recordings

• VIDEO: Editing within ScreenCastify [4:31]

Task: Use ScreenCastify or other screen editor to edit a video in which you describe a process, phenomenon, sequence, progression, cycle, operation, or development. Use the text tool and the cut tool.

(8) Videos - Annotating Zoom

• VIDEO: Screen Annotations in Zoom [3:19]

Task: Working in breakout rooms, obtain the screen captures showing how you and colleagues have added meaningful annotations to the Zoom screen. Good images for students to mark up with Zoom annotations include any kind of diagram with missing labels, such as cell parts, body systems, maps, or geometric figures. These work well because students can add text, arrows, and shapes to demonstrate what they know. Another strong option is comparison images, like two ecosystems, historical vs. modern scenes, or differing character expressions; students can circle differences or annotate evidence to show understanding. You can also use problem-solving visuals, including number lines, fraction models, coordinate planes, and word-problem diagrams, which allow students to draw their reasoning directly on the image. Process or sequence images—such as life cycles, step-by-step procedures, or story sequences—let students label steps or show order using arrows or captions. Photographs that require interpretation, like weather scenes, animal behavior shots, or historical photos, are useful because students can mark what they observe or infer. Finally, graphs and charts, whether complete or partially blank, help students demonstrate their ability to identify patterns, add data points, or correct errors through annotation.

(9) Videos - Annotating with EdPuzzle

• VIDEO:  Annotating with EdPuzzle [6:01]

Task: Create an EdPuzzle of a video related to the subject you teach.  Post a link to the EdPuzzle and a screen-shot of a gradebook showing student responses.

(10) Videos - Editing

• VIDEO: Introduction to creating a video in WeVideo [7:36]

• VIDEO:  Annotating Educational Videos - in WeVideo [13:31]

• VIDEO: Making a movie from Google Slides [14:53]

Task: Develop a practice movie using  your own material or the files provided and a video editor of your choice. Mac computers come with iMovie, while Windows includes the Microsoft Photos video editor and Clipchamp, whereas all other popular editors like Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Shotcut, OpenShot, and PowerDirector must be downloaded separately for both macOS and Windows. Online video editors include Clipchamp (Microsoft), CapCut Web, WeVideo, Canva Video Editor, Adobe Express Video, VEED.io, Invideo/Invideo Studio, FlexClip, Kapwing, Magisto (Vimeo), and Kizoa.

Put this video on a streaming video server and embed in your website.   Your movie should include, imagery, voice-over, music, transition, subtitles and annotations.