Uses in the Classroom: Editing photos and creating GIF images can be a useful tool even in PE & Health. While there may not be a plethora of opportunities for students to use these tools in this subject area there are many uses for teachers to use them. I plan on using Photoshop to give a more detailed perspective on the sports we cover in regards to court markings and field locations. It would be very easy to highlight, shade, enhance, desaturate, etc areas of the fields and courts to show students boundaries and/or different zones. Teaching student's about the "3 second rule" in Basketball could easily be done by shading the lane area and typing text about the rule in the picture. Taking a picture of a softball diamond and shading the area that each player is most likely responsible for incase of a flyball could easily be done and understood by students. Animated GIF's would be create for an assignment we currently do on paper and powerpoint called the "You Book". Basically student's compile images that describe themselves and make a presentation of this. Using the folder of images and Photoshop, students could create this animated GIF that would scroll through the images while they narrate them. There are no buttons to click or hardware other than a projector, computer, and internet. On Bloom's taxonomy students would be using Analysis for organizing their ideas and the Synthesis for creating, composing, and designing their You Book's.
Issues to Consider: The most glaring issue to consider would be the cost of Photoshop. Certainly using the 30 day trial is tremendous but will run out and you would be forced to purchase the full version. While it is easily argued that the cost is minimal compared to all the features and benefits of Photoshop it still may be difficult to come up with the money to purchase the full version. If students were using Photoshop this would also be a concern as I have students multiple times so they couldn't just use the 30 day trial. The other issue would be ease of use and also having the proper computer to use such a powerful program. I have a MacBook Pro which typically handles all programs easily and rarely gets "bogged down". I found Photoshop to significantly slow down the speed and it seemed to be overpowering my Mac. I know our PC's in our labs would be greatly effected by this program and may not even be usable.
Copyright: All original photos were taken by the author of this blog. All edits and changes were done so through the use of Adobe Photoshop.
Photo Editing
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