I initially thought the process of resizing an image would be relatively simple.............not the case for me. I was unable to do this in my Windows photo viewer program therefore I had to find another way. After some serious googling on the topic I ended up using Microsoft Office Picture Maker. Once I was in it was actually not very hard at all. There were many options that I could choose and the program would resize the picture for me. This skill is very useful when I want to email pictures to a friend or resize them for a PowerPoint.Resizing images is an important skill for students to develop as it is commonly used on the internet and in publishing programs. Teaching students how to resize photos would have to be well scaffolded as it can be quite complicated. The benefits of resizing photos is they are smaller files therefore emailing and uploading them onto the Internet a much quicker option.
What do you think?
I have continued thinking about how re-sizing photos could be incorporated into other subject areas. Maths could be an area focussing specifically on measurement, students are required to resize an image to fit various picture frames. They are first required to measure the frames with a ruler, convert to centimeters then to millimeters. Just a thought!
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