This guide outlines practical teaching and technical points you may find helpful as you plan to work with digital images. If you are ready to begin, click on the link below to return to the Action Plan on working with digital images . Images add color and visual interest to Web pages and PowerPoint presentations. They can help break up plain text, communicate information pictorially, and unify the look and feel over a series of Web pages or slides. Post fieldwork photos on the Internet.
Large courses can seem a little more intimate if students can put faces with names.
Post photographs of the entire class on the Web to help break the ice. Offer your students a visual study guide for your course. Images can take a variety of forms and serve numerous purposes in the context of your course. Research suggests that for certain kinds of tasks, images combined with text is the most effective means of information transfer. Placing images on your Web site also makes them more accessible to your students.