This presentation was given during a recent Adobe online course called Photo Imaging - a crash course for the classroom. It gives examples of ways I use Photoshop Elements in my year 6 classroom. I use Photoshop Elements to reach some of my Art and Literacy outcomes. The skills my students learn are transferable and relevant, since Adobe Photoshop is still the market leader in photographic manipulation.
1. Henrietta Miller
Year 6 teacher
http://www.classroomchronicles.net
http://year6rc.edublogs.org
2. What Adobe products do I
use?
Photoshop Elements
Premiere Elements
Why?
Software skills that have long term use
Creativity
Design skills
Student interest
Task creation
3. Activity: Cutting out objects and placing
them on another background.
Purpose: Backdrop for a
play, it was projected
onto the back wall of our
hall
4. Further backdrops showing student skills
in cutting out and resizing of simple
images as well as using layers.
All images were sourced using Creative
Commons image licensing rules.
13. Literacy activity – Picture
book
Created using
Microsoft
Word, own
illustrations and
Photoshop
elements.
backgrounds
14. Activity: Digi Kids Club.
Lunchtime activity club offering
lessons on photography and movie
making.
15. Where do you start?
With a simple task/activity
◦ That has a purpose
Build up student skills
◦ Layers, tools, filters etc
Use the Adobe Education Exchange to find
excellent lesson ideas
Remember that there are usually 2 ways of
doing the same thing in Photoshop
Don’t be afraid to admit your lack of
knowledge to your students
Question your students, ask them to justify
why they chose a particular Photoshop tool.