Photography club

I’ve mentioned the photography club before haven’t I?  Well - I help run the photography club at school.  I call it a photography club because we go around taking photos.  Which is fun.  But I don’t manage to teach the children much about taking good pictures.  We tend to just cover the basics.

Anyway.  I overheard one of the members of the club chatting away to his group while they were transferring the pictures from the camera to the PC.  The boy was using his own camera and he said “Oh - I forgot about that picture.  I took it with my phone and then transferred it to my camera so I could bring it in.”  Just a passing comment.  He thought nothing of it.

How many teaching staff would have been able to say that?  It kind of goes a bit of the way to demonstrate how different things are now.  Don’t get me wrong - I’m not saying all the staff at a school should be able to do that.  I’m not suggesting we run loads of staff meetings on bluetooth and the latest mobile handset.  But it is important that we think about these things.  I need a better idea of what the children in my class are capable of and what they actually enjoy doing.

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