A few of the personal blogs I watch seem to be marking April as Photo Month: “30 days, 30 photos.”  The idea is that participating bloggers upload one photo to their blog on each day of the month.  There isn’t necessarily a theme to the images (though many seem to reflect nature or domestic life).  So it must be pure aesthetics that drives folks to do this, or maybe a sense of amateur documentarian.

The project kind of reminds me of the 3191 blog, in which two friends (who lived 3191 miles apart), each took a photo each morning of their lives.  Their first year was subtitled “A Year of Mornings” and is under contract to become a book. Now they are in their second year, “A Year of Evenings.”

And it’s reminiscent of the A Day in the Life of _______series, which sent photographers all over a country to capture photos during a single day.

I love seeing our school through children’s various photographic projects.  It has me thinking … how could we use photographs on K-12 blogs to track something over time? What could students use digital cameras to capture? What can we design to help them process (ummm… I mean mental process, not film processing!) the photographic data/information in a meaningful way?

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