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Curated OER
Making a Class Web Site
Fourth graders explore and discuss how to create a class web site with a background, graphics, clip art and photos. They assess the safety issues putting a web page on the Internet, develop sound interviewing techniques and coordinate...
Media College
Media College: Still Photography Cameras
An introduction to the different types and components of still photography cameras.
Other
Video University: Camera Filters
Descriptions of more than 25 different types of camera filters.
Library of Congress
Loc: Daguerreotype
Online collection presents information about the daguerreotype process along with the type of cameras used in the process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Angles in the Mix
In this lesson, students explore straight, acute, and obtuse angles in artwork. Then students will use digital cameras to take pictures of objects in their environment that demonstrate these types of angles. Students will use these...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Science Careers: Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairer
With so many specialized pieces of equipment used in a multitude of areas, there is a great need for someone with the specialized knowledge to repair these many types of equipment. From repairing cameras to medical equipment to piano...
University of California
Knight Digital Media Center: Video Techniques
Learning the different types of shots in video is taught in this online tutorial.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Photgrapher
Use this site to learn about the career of a photographer. This Bureau of Labor Statistics website includes information on various types of jobs photographers do as well as they pay they earn.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Television Performance Techniques Module 6
A slideshow based on Herbert Zettl's "Television Production Handbook" that explains techniques that one needs to be aware of when performing in front of a television camera. Discusses questions to ask the director regarding how the...
Other
Focus on Photography
These pages include the kinds of information typically covered in a basic photography course, including common features of digital and conventional cameras, photographic composition, types of lighting, and recommendations for evaluating...
Other
Digital Imaging in Education
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Shot Framing: Review of Basic Camera Composition and Framing
A slideshow aimed at journalists to teach them the basic principles of framing a field of view and composing a shot.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Angle Scavenger Hunt
In this activity, students will explore straight, right, acute, and obtuse angles. Students will go on a scavenger hunt throughout the school to search for examples of these types of angles. The students will use digital cameras to...
Other
Animate clay.com: Clay and Stop Motion Animation Page
A totally cool site on clay animation. There are tips on how to make your clay objects come to life!
Other
World Coin
From a shop that sells U.S. and foreign coins, this page has pictures of many coin types. Choose a country from the left-hand navigation bar, then click on the thumbnail image of a camera to see pictures of coins from that country. Gold...
Other
Catching the Light: Astrophotography
Author and astrophotographer, Jerry Lodriguss, offers up tips, techniques and various images that he's taken both with and without the use of digital enhancement. An amazing amount of detail is provided to explain his approach towards...