LTP @ Cramp Elementary

1. LTP @ Cramp Elementary This is how we did it…

2. Starting Out • Get Administration on board – support is important • Explain that students will have cameras in school, at home (possibly) • Explain that students will be given rules to follow about the cameras • No pictures of people without permission • No cameras in class, during classes time, unless classroom teacher allows for it • Students will show responsibility for the camera, it’s a privilege • Parental Permissions required

3. Starting Out Set Up

4. Set Up • Get your paperwork in order, create a paper LTP folder • Camera warranties • Printer and cameras direction sheets • CDs • Student permission slip blanks • Information about LTP for handouts

5. Set Up • Get equipment from LTP • Log in ALL cameras and equipment • Try all equipment; insert batteries into cameras • Give copy of log to Tech Support (school) – back up • Create a Student Camera log sheet • Create a LTP folder on your computer for image downloads and back ups • Classroom numbers • Internal folders with student names • Homework Due Dates

6. Set Up • Copy student permission slips • Copy of class attendance sheet to log in permissions or Non permissions • Gather images for first class decoding image

7. Starting Out: Collaboration

8. Collaboration • Talk to classroom teachers • How do they want to start? • Possible themes to explore? • When? • Is there a common collaboration time (common prep)? • When to have the teaching artist come in? • Let them know your concerns, timing, schedule, etc. • Once a month homework assignments • Every other week, rotating cameras • Homework buddies • Be honest about timing

9. Staring Out: FIRST ART CLASS

10. First Art Class • Discussion • Student privilege and responsibility • Camera safety • How to store it • Don’t flash it around • Don’t let older or younger siblings use it – it’s your responsibility • Accidents happen – just let me know about it when it does happen • Limit use of previewing images – uses a lot of energy • Logging in cameras/logging out

11. Portraits

12. First Art Class • Picture Taking • Have to use the cameras provided, do not allow for using cameras from home • Appropriate images • What is acceptable vs non appropriate – it’s your responsibility • Photographer safety – when is it not appropriate to take pictures • Lighting • Blurry images – can they work? • Cropped images – use the viewer! • Interesting angles • Limit the number of images for homework to no more than 20

13. Younger siblings….

14. Interesting Angle

15. It’s a what??

16. First Art Class • Taking pictures of people – with their permission only! • Posing a photo to tell a story • Taking an un-posed image to tell a story • Thinking in pictures • Telling stories in pictures • Taking a series of pictures to tell a story

17. First Lesson Homework

18. Homework • Set strict deadline first time around • Signing out cameras • Checking cameras to make sure they work • Assigning or choosing a homework buddy • Review assignment • Take a photo taking trip around the school to practice with the cameras

19. Homework • On Deadline Day • Log in cameras • Download images to computer into student folders • Print a shuffle page for students to pick from • Check offlog • Delete images from disk to clean it out for the next time • If you have a student teacher – they can do this or train a student to do at lunch time • Have students create a photography portfolio to save all shuffle pages, final prints and photo ideas

20. Good Luck! • Remember to have fun… • Keep an open mind and… • BREATHE!