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Every Picture Tells a Story. This wiki is a resource for digital photography basics, editing tools, and how to incorporate the use of digital photos and image tools into the curriculum for K-12 teachers. Why Images?
 * Promote Visual Literacy (reading and processing information visually)
 * Images are central to information processing
 * Visual imagery influences memory, thinking, and behavior
 * Graphic images communicate spatial relationships and patterns in ways words cannot
 * Images and words are interdependent
 * "..emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked" pictures engage students
 * Writing Prompts
 * Digital Storytelling
 * Prompting discussion regarding intellectual property rights
 * Promote the development of community

Wiki created by Melissa Goodwin, ESA2 mgoodwin@edec.org

Created using __Teaching with Digital Images,__ Bull & Bell, 2005