This document discusses how images can be used as writing prompts in the classroom. Images have the power to inspire stories, bring historical moments to life, encourage critical analysis, teach tolerance, spark the imagination, and invite controversy. The document encourages teachers to be creative in designing their own writing prompts using images to make writing fun for students and inspire creativity. Credits are provided for the photo sources.

1. Using Images as Writing Prompts
a picture gives birth to a thousand words
Anita Hutton
EDIM 507INB 200910
Web 2.0: Impacting Learning Environments
Wilkes University
Kathy Schrock, Instructor
February 20, 2009

2. Images can
bring
inspiration.
Happy Obama Day by P.S. Zollo

3. Images can
inspire
storytelling.
downtime by Nimboo

4. Images can help measure understanding.
The Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. .IRC (2005). Retrieved February 13, 2009, from Discovery Education:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

5. Images can bring historic moments to life.
Richard Nixon announces his resignation, 1974..IRC (2005). Retrieved February 13, 2009, from Discovery Education:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

6. Images can
encourage
critical analysis.
Cartoon satirizing Darwin's theory..IRC (2005). Retrieved February 12, 2009, from Discovery The English Naturalist Charles Darwin..IRC (2005). Retrieved February 12, 2009, from
Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com Discovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

7. Images can help teach tolerance
A young courtship in Cape Town, South Africa.. IRC (2005), Retrieved February 13, 2009, from Discovery Education:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

8. Images can
spark the
imagination.
Planets of the Solar System. Corbis (2009. Retrieved February 12, 2009, from Discovery Education:
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

9. Images can
invite
controversy.
The Struggle Continues, strike poster, 1968..IRC (2005). Retrieved February 12, 2009, from
Discovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

10. Images can replace the rod
and make writing fun!
Be creative,
inspire creativity.
No matter what you teach,
design your own writing prompts.
Your students will love you.
Tim Ellis

11. Credits
Photos from:
• http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
• http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com
Photo editing at:
• http://www.Picnik.com
• http://www.Photoshop.com