I hope that everyone reviews how to have safe photos with their children and checks whether location based geotagging is turned off. Be wise about cell phone photography. Here’s a guide I wrote to help you understand this confusing topic. Location Based Safety Guide http://awe.sm/5pArP

What a fascinating lesson plan (and a way to get students out during these last few weeks of school.)

Find postcards from the past in your area and go and recreate the photograph today to compare the differences. This is a great lesson in both history but also photography. (And you could incorporate how photography as changed as well.) If you work with a local historical society, then you are “flattening” by removing classroom walls and linking up with others. “Use video or digital still photography to enhance lessons on local history and historical change. Students locate historic photos and then re-shoot at that location using a video or still camera.

The combined photographic research will record changes that have impacted a community, give students a perspective on the history of an area, and contribute to a communities’ historic record.

This post links to a downloadable lesson plan to do this activity.

Four great places for vintage photographs.

Shutterbugs will want to see this set of cool photography challenges.