I have been in charge of collecting photographs and memorabilia for our school’s closing ceremonies. The Student Leadership Group and I are working on a power point presentation and we are also running a slide show during the open house. So I have been scanning in photos, downloading emails and my external hard drive has been passed around over the past few weeks. I now have a collection of over 15 000 photographs on that hard drive…which by the way is approximately 8” x 6” x 1.5” in size. Can you imagine how much space 15 000 actual hard copy printed photographs would take up? The average photo album is approximately 10” x 12” x 3”… taking up about 4 times the space of my external hard drive….and at 8 photos per page and maybe 75 pages per album…..well, you get the ‘picture’.
We have been using visuals in education since I was in school, back in the Jurassic period. …but that usually meant pictures in books, ditto copies or reel to reel films from the National Film Board of Canada that never seemed to arrive when you were studying that topic…or relate to much of anything else at all (yes, I am that old). Visual Learning has evolved immensely since those days, and especially in the past few years. We now have immediate access to visuals of any nature from anywhere in the world, or the universe for that matter. We can download videos and show then to our students that are appropriate to the subject and topic we are teaching whenever we want and as many times as we need to show them. And better yet….our students can create their own digital visual creations and videos to demonstrate their learning!!
So back to the closing ceremonies and all those photos…..how long will it take to show 15 000 photos in a slide show if each is displayed for 10 seconds? I think I have some more editing to do…..
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