Lesson Ideas for using Image Blogs

Lesson Title:
 Introducing Yourself

Type of Web 2.0 Tool: 
Image Blogs

Common Core Standards:


CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Brief Description of Overall Lesson:

Students will create a “Day in the Life” blog about themselves to introduce themselves to the class.

1.   Introduce concept by showing the students a teacher created Image blog introducing themselves.

2.     Students will plan out the pieces of their daily life that they feel are the most important parts to include.

3.     On their own time, students will collect digital images of their life.

4.     Using those images, students will upload images.  Those images should then be commented on and collected.

5.     Students will then share their image blogs with the class.

Lesson Title:
 Annotated Images

Type of Web 2.0 Tool: 
Flickr

Common Core Standards:


CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.

Depending on the content of the lesson, these CCSS may apply:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3 Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.

Brief Description of Overall Lesson:

Students will annotate an image to identify the notable pieces within the picture.

This lesson/activity could be used for numerous topics/concepts. Depending on the subject and activity requirements students may either find and edit their own image, or they be assigned a photo based on the needs of the lesson.

This activity could be done for science by identifying a process on an image, or animals/plants in a photo.

History could use images such as maps or large aerial images that students could annotate.

Any other topic that can use a photo or image to show various images that students could identify and annotate could be used. 

Students will then share these annotated photos to the class and verbally explain the process to the class.