Digital Bridge to Nature

I am consulting with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to facilitate teacher workshops about digital nature photography.

This fantastic program, funded by an LCCMR grant, gives teachers (grades 3-9) of all disciplines the knowledge and tools (i.e. digital cameras) needed to bring nature photography into the classroom and plug students into nature.

Each FREE four-hour workshop is standards-based, and is designed to provide training for approximately 12-20 teachers of any subject area.

The format covers the use of digital cameras, basic photo tips, a hands-on photo activity, reveiwing and discussing the photos taken by staff during the photo activity, downloading and editing techniques, and student project ideas. We’ll show how to enhance your curriculum, not add to it!

After the workshops teachers have access to a classroom set of digital cameras to check out for free from the DNR.

I am facilitating two open workshops at the Como Park Street Car station on October 23, 2010. If you are teacher (grades 3-9) email me to register for the morning (8:00 – 12:00) or the afternoon (12:30 – 4:30) workshop. Hurry, space is filling up fast!

On July 11, we had a kick-off event in Luverne, Minnesota sponsored by Jim Brandenburg and his family. We practiced our photography in Blue Mounds State Park where we were all astounded and thrilled to find the rare western prairie fringed orchid.

Jim B. Photographing a Western Fringed Prairie Orchid, Photo by Jane Eaton, Diamond Path Elementary

Photo from a post titled "Occupational Hazards"

The Infinite Universe Blog is an engaging and witty site authored by local naturalist and photographer Tim Boyle.

I highly recommend scrolling down and checking out the sidebar section titled “Things kids say to a naturalist…”

Aedes triseriatus, Eastern Treehole Mosquito (Larva) by Alex WIld

Science Blogs has added a new science photo blog called Photo Synthesis. The first featured photographer is entomologist Alex Wild.