Saw a presentation and added to it. Not sure where but I love digital scrapbooking.

1. Photolicious
Apptivities

2. What is it?
Digital Scrapbooking Why scrapbooking?
Another form of People taking many
capturing and photos quickly and
preserving your easily gives the
memories using opportunity to display
graphics and/or and share in new and
photo editing different ways.
programs to design Preserves memories in
your pages. a less expensive,
faster, easily shareable
format with many
features.

3. It’s Been Around For Awhile
Photo Journaling (yearbooks) = Digital Scrapbooking
So, digital scrapbooking is the creation of a photo
journal using tools such as a digital camera, scanner,
computer, and image-editing programs.

4. Curriculum-Based
Scrapbooking Projects
Require the use of reading, writing, and critical thinking
skills, as well as the development of visual literacy and
basic technology skills. Explore any topic!
Reflective Learning
Timeline for an Event
Writing Styles
Class Field Trip
Favorite Piece of Literature
Posters/Flyers for School Events
Historical Event
A to Z Alphabet Book
School and/or Class Milestones
Documenting an Event

5. More Projects
• Make up a list of categories; most • Create a photo map or guidebooks:
talkative, funniest, and so on. Poll What are the important landmarks in
classmates to find the winners, then your neighborhood? Create a map or
take pictures, and make them up into guidebook illustrated with photographs
a yearbook. Include photos of that show things a visitor should not
important school events. Start early. miss.
• Tell a Story by taking a series of • Nature Hunt: What are the animals and
photos that tell a story. Can the story plants of your neighborhood or school
be told entirely without words? campus? Can you capture them with
• Is there a spot in your neighborhood your camera?
that tells what life is like there? Can • Metamorphosis: How do things change
you take pictures that capture that over time and how quickly do they
life? Think about what happens at change? Find something in the class or
that spot at different times of the outside that you expect to change. It
day. could be a caterpillar, a flower bud, or a
• Weather Watch: How many different tree. Figure out how quickly it is going
kinds of weather can you to change, then take pictures at regular
photograph? You could start with intervals to show this change.
sun, rain and fog.

6. More Projects
• Students can incorporate photos into • Younger students can take pictures of one
reports and multi-media presentations. another and use them in All About Me
They can also edit photos to create all
kinds of art. pieces at the beginning of the year. They
• Some districts have their students include photos from field trips, photos of
create a design for mouse pads to sell teachers, special activities, and of course,
as a technology fund raiser. Students the kids themselves. Teachers put this
can embellish photos of themselves for collection on CDs to give to parents at the
the mouse pads.
end of the school year.
• Use photos on the school website, Its a
way for parents to be more a part of • More ideas on Education World
their child's day, and it's nice for
relatives who may not live near the
child to feel more connected.
• Encourage teachers to use the cameras
with their students to adopt a section
of our campus and keep a
photographic record of the seasonal
change.

7. Student Favorites
BFF – A student favorite, this project
allows for lots of creativity.
Family History
Personal Journaling
End-of-Year Friendship Book
Personalized Cards

8. Teacher Projects
Back-to-School to
End-of-Year Scrapbook
Take pics from the first
day of school to the
last day.
Create scrapbook
pages.
Pages saved as
images and used in

9. Digital Image Formats
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is the default setting
for most digital cameras. The format is compressed and file is
fairly small. Will loose pixels when saved each time.
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is the best choice for scanned
images. Take up more space than JPEGs but are not lossy
(won’t loose pixels). Best option for scrapbooking.
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) files are for online use where
size is of primary concern. Limited color choices and high
compression. Not really appropriate for digital scrapbooking.
PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files were created in response
to limitations with the GIF format. PNG images cannot be
animated like GIF images. PNG files are lossless, which means

10. Planning and Prep
Decide on theme or tone.
Gather all images.
A storyboard can be used to write a draft
of any text items you will be using.
Create a layout for each page. This can be
sketched.

11. Working with Images
• Use photos taken by you or students
• Use photos taken by parents
• Use photos taken by someone else
(Remember Copyright)
– Pics4Learning
– FreeFoto
– PD Photo
– Photohome
• Use clip-art
– Open Clip Art Library
– Public Domain Clip Art
– Clker.com
– MorgueFile

12. Working with Images
• Scan photos and
objects to create
digital images.
– Any object that fits
in the scan bed
can be
scanned.(patches,
ribbons, awards)
– Scan souvenirs
and mementos
that relate to your
theme like in the

13. Working with Images
No Photoshop, no problem! In place of Photoshop, you can
use PicMonkey or Pixlr. These are free online photo editing
sites. Pixlr is a favorite since it can be used in a variety of
formats. Use in a web browser or download the Android or
iOS app for your device.
Pixlr - Also available as an iOS and Android app.
PicMonkey - Click here to view video tutorial.
BeFunky touts snazzy filters and image effects.
Creative Kit allows you to crop, rotate, change exposure
and edit other features of pictures you have uploaded.
Formerly known as Picnik.
iPiccy has tons of tools for simple online photo edits and
very similar to the once known Picnik.
Sumo Paint like Photoshop offers many of the photo
editing giant's useful tools.
Pixlr Express is the basic version of Pixlr, which has a

14. Working with Text
Be aware of a potential problem called font
substitution. This occurs when someone
opens a file that was created by someone
else and the file uses a font that is not on
the person’s computer.

15. Tips for Building a Page
You can always add or take away anything
before saving the page (slide) as an
image.
You can put more than one picture per
page. (collage)
Don’t get stuck putting everything in the
middle. Move things around and angle in
different directions.
Make sure your color choice and design fit
the theme or tone of your page.

16. PowerPoint for Digital
Scrapbooking
PowerPoint + Backgrounds +Graphics + Pics + Imagination
= Digital Scrapbook
Advantages:
Great for beginners and younger students.
We already have PowerPoint so no new software is
needed.
Slides can be used to create scrapbook pages.
Set slides to any size.
Clip-art readily available.
Can insert graphics, sounds, and video.
Rotate, crop, and adjust pics.
PowerPoint is cross platform running on both PCs and
Macs.

17. PowerPoint for Digital
Scrapbooking
Disadvantages:
Printing quality is considered low but
gets the job done.
Not as many options and features.
Doesn’t create layers, but you can
move images forward or backwards
creating a layered look.

18. My Favorite Freebie Sites
http://freedigitalscrapbooking.com/
http://www.pixelscrapper.com/
http://www.scrapbookflair.com/ (will save
as a PSD file)