Flickr Slide Show

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I really enjoyed this assignment. I lhave never heard of Flickr before this assignment. I have heard of webshots, but not flickr. This was fun becoming familiar with how to upload pictures, put descriptions with them, and then put them into a slide show. It wasn't that complicated at all, but it does take some practice to get it down.

This would be a really good instructional tool for the classroom. A good assignment would be to have the students research a place, then find pictures that are from that place or show what it looks like. Kind of like what we did. This tool might not be feasible to do with all grade levels, but definitely the upper grades. One concern I would have is if not all the students have access to a computer or only limited access. If that is the case, this assignment would be a bit of a challenge.

Overall, this assignment was fun and I learned another helpful tool. I am learning great new websites to browse and use frequently. Hope you all like the slide show!

Sense of Place Poster

I love doing these assignments and going back and looking at the pictures I took of that trip. I keep learning more and more fun instructional tools everyday in this class. I never knew comic strip existed.

The camping trip me and Tim took was in April 2007 and it was still kind of cold at night. I like a nice warm bed at night, but I was a good sport about it being only 0 degrees outside. I have never been camping in the middle of no where before this trip. It was a great trip and definitely wasn't my last. Since then, we have gone on many camping trips and I am really starting to enjoy being in the middle of no where.

I can see how much fun students could have with comic strip in creating comics for an art project or for a sense of place assignment like ours. I love how you can be so creative with the project too. There are guidelines to follow but the creativity is all up to you. This project is a good way for students to express themselves with pictures they have taken. This assignment would also be good for a photography class. Have the students take a set of pictures and then make a poster of the final pictures. There are so many instructional tools with the comic strip. As I use it more and more I will become more familiar with it. After using it just once, I feel pretty comfortable with it now. I can't wait to see everyones posters!!

Digital video!!!

Horray! my digital video is finally posted! I really enjoyed making this video and looking back at the pictures and seeing how much fun I had. Hope you enjoy it!

Spring Break

I hope everyone's spring break was very nice and enjoyable. I know mine was. I ended up working quite a lot of it though, but it was still really good to spend some quality time with my family. My younger brother will be going off to college next year so I will only be able to see him on breaks so it was a lot of fun getting to spend a lot of time with him.

I am really excited to start the next couple of assignments with our photos. I took some photos of my hometown when I was home for this assignment and am ready to get started.

I know I am a little late on posting my digital video, but for some reason, it won't let me post it on my blog and it's been frustrating me. So hopefully in class tomorrow I will get that done!

Ok back to more studying for me! Spring break is over so let all the work begin again!

Digital Video

To be honest, I have never made a digital video before. I didn't know my computer had a program that can produce videos. I learned something new and I will never forget it. I had so much fun making this video. I choose to make my video about my trip to Boston last summer with my boyfriend. Through making this video, it helped me relive some of the amazing memories that I made.
I think digital videos are a great tool for the classroom and students could really show their creative side through making digital videos. There are so many neat features that go along with the digital video too. Students could make a video instructing others students in the class on how to do something, they could make a video of their family, or just put a video together about an assignment.
This assignment was really enjoyable for me and I look forward to starting the place based assignment after spring break. It will be a way for me to get to know the other students in the class better and show my creative side again.