Single digital image, plus text

Here's one from my CELTA session September 18th...

My suggestion was that getting the learners to produce a single digital image, plus accompanying text, would make a great project, for example on a blog.

My example was to take a picture of an object of personal value to the person concerned -- hence the shoes in the picture at the top of this post, which were brand new. You wouldn't of course have to limit pictures to that.

None of those of you who attend the session seemed terribly impressed by the idea. However, personally, I think it's a good one. Getting your learners to create, not merely consume -- that's what makes for good use of technology in the classroom. It gets them involved, it gets them caring, it gets them creating; they are active, not merely passive consumers of photocopies.

Still not convinced...? Here are two great examples, one by students learning Spanish here at IH Barcelona, the second the Portraits of Learning project on techlearning.com.