Digital Photography and Special Needs

This is a posting that responded to a post from Michael regarding digital photography and special needs students.

Michael - that is such a great idea. It actually reminds me of what the grade five teacher did at my school. During the Canadian Landmark unit in Social Studies, she made a modified assignment for her very high needs student. Instead of getting him to focus on Canadian landmarks the teacher adapted it to local Sioux Lookout landmarks. What he did was drive around with an EA and take pictures of what he thought were important Sioux Lookout landmarks. Then he printed those digital photos and added captions to them, labelling what each 'landmark' was, and giving a little bit of information about each. These were typed responses completely typed by himself (big step). He put this all on a bristol board and presented it to the class orally. As an extension, the teacher had him create a large map of Sioux Lookout and he placed each digital photo (scaled down) on the map in its respective place. I really like how the teacher in your school created it like a game with velcro. That would really help the student to learn the names of important places in his city. I'll be sure to pass along that great idea to the grade five teacher in my school. Thanks!