Respond to Digital Verticle File

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June 11, 2008 by writingwithtechnology

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on 11 Jun 2008 at 7:58 am1 Michele

I found the “Creating A Network Vertical File” article to be eye opening. Making digital images easily accessible to students through a “vertical file” would enable students to add detail to their writing, encourage creativityand thinking outside of the box, and allow students to spend more time on the important task of writing versus endless minutes of web searching. Having a store of images for the students to pull from would also insure that all images are appropriate for student use.

The suggestions of using free web images, image subscriptions, local history, recorded interviews, student art work, and student generated photos are excellent. For my music education purposes, I could also expand this to include performance recordings – though copyright laws may make this a bit tedious. The easiest way, I think, to develop a file of this sort is to use self and student generated materials.
on 11 Jun 2008 at 8:03 am2 Kila Henry

I thoroughly agree that there are few good images available at a school for use by teachers and students. Most of the packages that I have found and tried to use contain very few usuable images for my intended purpose.
Many of the images are either too cartoonish, poor quality or incorrect from a scientific standpoint. They might be of some use for making a banner but fail to make a scientific statement.

Many schools no longer keep vertical files as they have come to the conclusion that everything you might want is at your fingertips on the internet. How wrong they are. One can spend hours looking for just the right picture to illustrate a concept. As a teacher, I would like to have my own categorized vertical file of images from my “History of Science” trips to Europe. These images, taken in museums or places that the average tourist never sees are worth so much more to myself and the hopefully the students. These pictures will be used in my daily curriculum to emphasize a point or to provide a point of discussion.