JPG Magazine Website
This website is a good visual tool for photographers. It is a blog style website that is all about the love of photography and sharing your world through the lens. My favorite and most inspiring part of this site is it's theme and photo challenges section (under Features). It gives you great ideas as a photographer/photography teacher, to inspire creativity for your photos and your lessons. Whether a theme with deep meaning like, "Political Power: Effecting and Being Affected By Politics", or something simple and fun like, "Back To School", these ideas will help promote your thoughts and give a sense of originality to your lessons and your images.
PhotoVoice: Participatory Photography for Social Change
This website exposes you to a different type of photography; photography for social change. The mission of Photo Voice is to expose disadvantage communities all over the world to photography and the means to use this medium as a form of advocacy. This site links you to workshops that can improve your skills as a teacher, exposing you to teach social change through photography. It also allows you to be a part of projects throughout different countries. It reveals different ideas and visual examples for your very own projects. This site is a great resource for all types of photography and photography courses, especially photojournalism.
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
The website works well for researching different photographers from the 1800's to present times. It is a great resource for teachers and students alike. There are three different search boxes at the top-center of the home page for artists, artwork, and even art museums. This website even offers more unique ways of researching art related topics, like through a "medium" and "nationality" search. The website is useful when teaching projects that may use different art forms or artists as inspiration for the project. It is also helpful if students need inspiration for their photography; I tend to use this site with my Photography II students, when we are analyzing photographs for creative portraits.
Photography for Kids by Kids
A useful site for almost any information about photography, especially digital photography. It contains a lot of interacting sites; one called "Be An Explorer". This section gives you many cool photo projects to try out, many connect to the research and reading that are a part of the other sections, on the site. This site is a good way to allow your students to have some independent work time, but still keeping them committed to learning. When I use this site with my students, I make sure that I generate questions beforehand, in order to ensure that they are gaining information from their searches.
Morgue File
This is a free photo archive website. This site allows access to photos for inspiration, as a means of reference when talking abut different photography elements, and for the use of any photo based projects; photo collages, photo advertisements, and/or posters. Another thing that makes this site useful for teaching, is that it offers a Classroom section. It teaches the basics in photography; offering lessons on various topics such as color filters/special effects in photography, ISO and technical aspects of the shutter, and Composition and it's importance when taking a picture. I give this site to my students as a resource to find any images that they need or want for various projects. I tend to only use the Classroom section with my high school students because the lessons are a bit in depth and they have a better grasp of the technical aspects of photography.
The Artist's Toolkit
This site helps reinforce visual elements and principles, the fundamentals to teaching art and photography. This is a great reference tool when I teach certain beginning elements of photography such as line, shape, color, and texture. It offers many experiential learning options for all learners ranging from an elementary to middle school reading level. Such as watch, find, and create, a visual and hands on way of exposing the young artist/photographer to the elements and principles of art, or the encyclopedia tab, that offers a short explanation of the fundamentals of art, along with comparing and showing how they are used in various famous works of art. This website helps students to get comfortable with new ideas and concepts; creating an eagerness for the student to want to learn more.
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