Phone in Your Field Trip 

With  Picasa Web Albums
students and teachers can collect shots from the field and email from a smart phone to a class album.

Here's how:

1. In a Picasa Web Album choose "Settings" in the upper left.

2. Scroll down and select "Upload Photos by Email".  Type in a "secret word" to share with the class. Then while off campus, students can upload to the shared Picasa Web Album.


With a smart phone students
can view uploaded field trip
photos while on the go.

A few topics ideas for photographic field studies:
  • Biology/Science field challenges - photograph scientific findings, plants, animals.
  • Find and photograph evidence of environmental problems or issues.
  • History Happened Here - visit a historic place, take a photo and describe the change.
  • Physics Challenge - What’s holding that up?  Find and photograph a building, bridge or structure and explain the physics of it.
  • Locate and photograph a place where the language you are studying has cultural impact.  
  • Photograph potential or ongoing community improvement projects.
  • Literature Happened Here - photograph a book's setting.
  • Record by photograph what is learned during a museum visit.
  • Make a creative movie on the go with Animoto for the iPhone


Cheryl Davis - Acalanes Union High School District