Using the Digital
Cameras (1997)
Id say we now
have the Best Elementary Web Site in Michigan--maybe
in the world--thanks to the interest our teachers have
shown. There have been so many great ideas: Kindness
Week, 100 Days, Snow People, Tower Construction, Puppet
Shows, Dental Visits (I love all those open mouths......)
I could go on and on. It would take hours to adequately
browse all our pages.
Many of you have
begun downloading your own own images. If you give your
camera to me, here is what you can do to
help me speed up the process from camera to web site:
- Go over your
images before returning the camera, please.
Delete any images you do not want used. (The
deleting directions for each camera are below) If
its unclear, dump it. If you dont
know what to say about it, dump it. Everybody,
get tough! Dump now!
- Write a
caption for each image . You may write
these when you give me the camera or wait until I
put up the pictures on the Internet. (I'll send
you the URL so you can see the page) But please,
please, PLEASE, do send text to go with the
pictures. It is difficult for me to write text
about events when I wasn't there.
- Please return
the camera to me after school. It is
more efficient if I down load every night. I'll
get the camera back to you in the morning. (If
you give me a camera with 50 images it may take
me several hours)
Directions
for the Ricoh Camera. Be sure to do this work with the
camera plugged into the adapter. This camera uses way too
many batteries. (Use the LCD display to view) The adapter
is in the camera case.
- To view the images
you took, set the left sliding lever to
play and use the triangle buttons
to move forward and backward.
- To erase an image
you dont want, click erase
button and follow directions. Choose to
delete only one at a time. The same silver
button you use to click a picture also is the
delete button.
- Copy down the
frame # of the image that is yours. This
number will be its permanent number unless
someone belatedly decides to delete images
taken before yours and you get to yell at
them. (thats why I say delete before
returning the camera)
- After copying down
each frame that is yours, write and tell who
is in the picture, what are they doing, what
grade is it.
- Example:
Images 4 and 5 are mine. In #4 Tara is
writing a three page essay on the life
cycle of my friend the toad Thats
the toad beside her on the paper. In #5 Tim
and Tom are constructing a snowman entirely
out of soap scum they scratched off the
bathroom sinks. This will be entered in the
next Art Show.
Directions
for the Olympus Cameras. (the LCD display is on the back)
- Please preview
images before returning the camera to me. Use
the green button on the back to view. (the
view finder/lens on the front should be
closed) Use the forward and back buttons to
see your images
- Please delete any
images you dont want by clicking the
red button at the top of the camera and then
clicking OK which is the silver
clicking button you use for taking a picture.
Dont leave any unwanted images of yours
on the camera. I wont know what to do
with them either, and I will end up wasting
my time downloading and manipulating them. If
you dont want it, you are the one who
should decide to dump. Save the life of a
Webmaster: dump. I will assume that anything
you send in is a cherished treasure and
protect it with my life.
- Please note on
paper the following:
- The number of
each image you want is shown on the LCD
screen located on the back of the
camera.--Dont use the number on the
top. It is just to tell you how many more
pictures the camera can hold.
- Tell who
is in each of the pictures you want (it
is not necessary to name the children)
- Tell what
the children are doing. How is this part
of your curriculum? If its a reward
or fun activity, say so. Fun is good!
- Write any
paragraphs or student quotes you want
uploaded.
- Is this
picture to be added to an existing page?
Is it to be part of a new page?
Whats the topic? Tell me what I
should do with it (within reason, of
course) By doing this you will be helping
me spend less than the current 25 hours a
week I am spending on the web.
Directions
for MJ's cameras:
I'd love to write this,
but I have never seen the cameras or the directions.
I do know that if you use the camera, the images are
easily brought from the floppies to my hard drive. I
don't know if it is possible for the photographer to
preview and delete images before giving the floppy to
me. I REALLY WISH IT WERE POSSIBLE. Currently, I'm
having to pull up each image individually to see it.
It is a time consuming guessing game. I'm sure there
is a better way. I also think there must be a lower
setting on that camera.
Have
you tried this? The jpg images loaded on the
web site can be downloaded to your own computer. You
can use them in your word-processing documents. You
pull them in to most documents using
insert and then navigate to find the
image you want. Jpgs that come to you by e-mail can
also be downloaded to your computer by holding the
mouse on the image (same as on the web) until a
dialogue box comes up. Choose save this image. Keep
or change the name to suit yourself. Most of the
names I use a pretty esoteric. Jpg images taken by
the digital camera and not used in the web can also
be used in word processing documents.
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