Photography and Design

So this week I was struggling with how to use photography and design in the education field that isn't surface...I am not sure I succeeded.  Here it goes anyway:
Teachers have to be expert graphic designers.  One of the hardest parts of being a teacher is keeping children engaged in a world where they are stimulated by graphics ALL THE TIME...and by people who have a lot more practice and formal training in gaining the children's attention.  From television to video games kids are exposed to thousands of sensory images a day, and teachers are expected to keep and use students attention to teach and guide.  This is done not only in core subjects but more often than not in what I feel is the number one key to education...classroom management- you can not teach if you are constantly keeping kids in line.  Anyway, we try to make everything as appealing as possible visually in an attempt to get the kids attention.  This can be posters we make to PowerPoint's we assemble.  All is in the hope that we can keep their attention and teach them something memorable and compelling giving them a desire to learn.
On a separate, but related idea photography could be used more in my classroom.  One way I was thinking about photography was in the story telling.  There were two facets in which I thought this would be helpful.  First, thanks to digital photography and websites, it would be easy now to help tell your classes story to the world (and more importantly parents) through your website and photos.  Story telling in photos could be used in all sorts of ways in curriculum.  One way would be to practice descriptions. Another way would be write stories based on pictures.  Other ways would be perpective.  There are hundreds of ways to use photography in your classroom.