Mystery Close-up Contest

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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    Students get to use the Macro mode on their cameras/phones to take Close-up shot of an object.

    Most digital cameras have a "Macro" mode which allows very close up focusing. The macro mode setting is usually represented with a flower icon similar to the image below.


    Students are to take a close up photo of an object so that viewers can't tell what the object is. The photo must not use blurring or unnatural distortion effects to obscure the object. No Photoshop work can be done (other than converting to a Jpg file if necessary).

    Phones aren't the best for Macro photography unless an add-on lens is used. A page illustrating the differences between phone and camera macro shots can be found here.

    Photos will be uploaded to our server and shared with the class. Each student will tell the class what their image is and some of the details related to the photo.

    A few tips to take Macro Photos using a phone camera can be found here.

    Sometimes prizes are awarded for the photo voted as "Best Mystery Close-up" of the class.

    Evaluation:
    5 points -- Clarity/composition/lighting/focus
    3 points -- "Mysteriousness" of the object
    2 points -- Saved as a jpg with your last name.
    10 points total