by cwptedu on March 31, 2010
As you know, my daughter has her Civil War Sallie project that is traveling around teaching and learning about the Civil War. Well, my son CJ has created his own project named Patriot Pete. As the newest member of the Follow Me Project family, Patriot Pete was created to get kids to learn more about how we as Americans show our patriotism and support our armed forces while teaching about using technology.
Pete is traveling around looking for classrooms, famous American landmarks, military bases, and other places around the country that are important to our history. He would love to come visit you in order to learn more about patriotism while sharing his experiences on his blog and Flickr page.
Please go and check out Pete’s home page and if you teach about some aspect of patriotism, live or work on or near a famous American landmark, military base or museum I hope you can sign up to have Pete come visit you.
by fifer1863 on March 12, 2010
by fifer1863 on March 7, 2010
Here is something cool you can do with your students. Have them take modern photos and make them look old. For example, here is a photo that I took of some friends of mine from Sykes Regulars.
You can then take the photograph and put it into your favorite photo editor such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or GiMP.
Once you have it in your editor, start playing with the tone to make it look black & white using a sepia tone filter and then next you will want to blur the edges to give it that slightly unfocused look. Play with different filters to see the different effects they have on the image.
Now for some more advanced edits. If you know how to create layers in your editor, you could take the background from an old photograph and place the modern photo (that you have just revised) on top to give you the rough edges of the photo. This would require you to select a portion of the modern photo and then paste it on top of the new layer.
Here is what the revised image might look like:
Let me know what you come up with.
