Images

In week 4 we looked at images on the Internet. There are a few different sites on the web that allow you to use photos but under certain circumstances. Some times you can use images and do what ever you want to them others you cant change at all and some you can only use if you reload it back onto the page.Some of the images and photos on the web site Flickr can be used in educational circumstances. Students would be able to use these images to help support assignments as well as teachers using the photos or images as teaching tools.

If we have a look at the image on the left we can see that sports and health teachers would be able to use this image as a teaching tool. There are a number of teaching and learning purposes that this image can be put to. Through this image we can see the points of impact on the muscles of the body, what muscles are under the greatest strain at the point of impact and even simply how all of the muscles of the body joint together. This image may be used in a slide show showing the whole body, then the leg, then the quadriceps, then the rectus femoris, then a muscle fibre right the way down to a single filament. you could get year 12 PE students to name or label as many muscles that they could or just give them the names of the muscles in use.

There are many different learning opportunities that can be associated with images. This is just one image from a one website that has had over 4.3 million images loaded to it just this month. There are other websites out there that have images for use. Teachers should be using these types of resources to give students some different perspectives on what they are trying to teach.
Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/1809592568/