Learning Resources - Media 1.03

1.03 Scanner. Use a scanner to create a digital image.

Introduction

The district's technology newsletter, "Educational Technology Today", is almost ready. Your editorial needs examples of work that students are creating using technology. With a scanner, you can create a digital image from the Photos taken at the Science Fair! While scanners share similar features, which allow you to produce identical digital images, each one uses slightly different scanning software. As a result, when using a scanner the best resource is the accompanying manual.

While the interface of scanning software may be different, they request the user to make the same choices.

  • What resolution do you want to use? Higher resolutions increase picture quality, but also increase file size. Computer monitors will only display images at 72dpi. So for any image used on the Internet you only need a resolution of 72dpi.
  • Do you want to scan in color or black and white?
  • Do you want to scan the entire image, or use the selection tool to crop some of the image?

The answers to these questions will be determined by the intended use of the image.

Your Job:

  1. Use the details provided below to create a product that addresses and demonstrates mastery of this competency.
  2. Use the stepwise process listed under Your Portfolio to display the completed product in your ITSC portfolio.

    Product Details:

    • Locate your copy of the ITSC admissions application checklist that you submitted.
    • Use a scanner to create a digital image of your admission application checklist.
    • Create a link to your scanned application checklist on the "index" page of your portfolio.

Your Portfolio:

  1. FTP your completed product for this competency to the "1media" folder within the web-based portfolio template provided.
  2. Click here to view the "Devel" page in the portfolio template.
  3. Download the "Devel" page from your ftp folder.
  4. Locate 1.03 Scanner on the "Devel" page.
  5. Under "1.03 Scanner" locate this sentence..."To view the evidence that I offer for this competency, please click here."
  6. Link the word "here" to your product.
  7. Delete the old "Devel" page in your ftp folder.
  8. Upload your revised "Devel" page.
  9. Submit the URL for your completed product in the student database.

Related Resources:

  • Reference manual for your scanner
    • Type of resource: Book (hard copy)
    • Source: Personal Library
    • Description: Refer to your scanner's manual
  • Scanning Tutorials
    • Type of Resource: Website
    • Source: http://pd.l2l.org/lrn_scanning.html
    • Description: These Scanning tutorials gives a list of PDF files that can be downloaded and printed. Pointers on scanning and using popular scanner types can be found here. For best viewing results make sure that you have downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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