{"id":907,"date":"2010-06-08T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/springboard\/?p=907"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:10:13","slug":"using-images-good-better-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/springboard\/2010\/06\/using-images-good-better-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Images \u2013 Good, Better, Best."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
When creating materials and News items for your online classrooms, consider using images to draw attention to your postings.\u00a0 A natural \u201cchunking\u201d of information can be achieved with strategic placement of a few key images within lengthy sections of text.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"sun\"<\/td>\nGood<\/strong>: A simple piece of clip art or a photo related to the season or holiday will add interest to your announcements and will provide an updated, current feeling to the classroom.\u00a0 Images of students participating in the learning process can impart a sense of academic community and engagement.\u00a0 Pictures of the campus will encourage familiarity with various buildings, and can foster a greater sense of belonging.<\/p>\n

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\"spanish<\/td>\nBetter<\/strong>:You can increase the value of adding graphics by having images relate directly to the field of study. For example, a course in Spanish could utilize images from various aspects of Spanish cultures: city streets, homes, market places, etc.\u00a0 Courses in the College of Nursing could integrate images of medical personnel performing various tasks or using innovative equipment.<\/p>\n

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Best<\/strong>: The ideal use of images is to enhance the learning process by providing actual examples with a narrative, description, or explanation.\u00a0 A microbiology course could provide full color enhancements of various bacteria, fungi, protozoans, or viruses.\u00a0\u00a0 These electronic images viewed within an online classroom offer greater detail and clarity than those displayed on a screen at the front of a lecture hall and can be used for review by students.<\/p>\n

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Optimizing Images: <\/strong>Images used for web-viewing do not need to be extremely high resolution, nor should they be.\u00a0 Cropping and resizing them in PowerPoint or a Word document does not reduce the file size. Images have to be edited in a specialized program (such as Adobe Photoshop), and then placed into the file. For example, an image that is 200 x 150 will cover about one-fourth of your screen.\u00a0 Images to be used in News posting can be much smaller.<\/p>\n

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Consider that a 12 megapixel digital camera produces images approximately 4272 x 2848 pixels.\u00a0 Images used in your course Content should not exceed 1024 x 768 pixels.\u00a0 In comparison, PowerPoint slides are set to 1000 x 750.\u00a0 As you can see, there may be a need to optimize many of the images you would like to use.<\/p>\n

For free image-editing online, go to \u00a0 http:\/\/www.picnik.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Regards,\u00a0 Dr. Jill
\nJonnie “Jill” Phipps, Ph.D.
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