What?
This week we got to experiment using Picassa. This is a great program to work with your photos in. You can do things like crop, straighten, fix redeye, retouch, highlight, shadow, change colors, focus, blur, glow, sharpen, make sepia, black and white, and many other possibilities and combinations. Picassa also allows you to post these pictures directly to your blog, make collages, email, print them, create slideshows, and more. At the end of this post are four original pictures, then those same pictures edited and changed through Picassa.
So What?
This is a great tool to help keep pictures organized and personalized exactly how you want them. Through using this free program, your pictures can reflect your personality, enhance creativity, create variety, be more artistic and aesthetically pleasing, draw attention, look more professional, and accomplish specific goals you may have had with that picture. Sharing pictures with others can be easy and fun through this useful program.
Now What?
I'd like to continue experimenting with Picassa and continue to get more knowledgeable and comfortable with all of the possibilities that it offers. This may motivate me to be better at taking pictures, which would be very helpful! I believe it would be easy to apply this in my teaching. By taking pictures of handshapes, Non-Manual Signals (facial expressions), and signs, and then editing these pictures to draw the students' attention to specific features I'd like to emphasize, they may find their homework and assignments more interesting and may recall it easier. Visual learners would benefit greatly from having rich and diverse pictures to study and learn from. Perhaps I could even give them a project to take pictures of certain things, edit and personalize them in Picassa, and create a project from it. There can be a lot of possibilities.
Video: Top Ten Things You Do Not Learn About Teaching in College
10- Why are the bad kids never sick?
9- No matter how sick you are, it's easier to come into school than to write sub plans
8- When your students tell you they really have to go to the bathroom, always believe them
7- Forget your college friends and loved ones. Who's your new best friend? Wipes!
6- How to disarm the school alarm system on the weekends
5-You'll get so sick and tired of hearing your last name, you'll want to change it
4- Your fitness program will consist of carrying your bags to and from the school
3- Two words: Differentiating Instruction
2- The principal's office is still scary
1- Always be good to your Superintendent
I thought this was really funny, so I wrote out these 10 points they mentioned (all of which seem have some bit of truth in them, haha). I think it is true that you can't learn absolutely everything in your college classes- some things will probably have to be learned through the actual experience of teaching your own classroom. It's helpful though, to be ready for as much as you possibly can when going into your teaching experience. Paying attention and putting forth effort in college classes will help, as well as talking with other teachers and getting their advice.
This week we got to experiment using Picassa. This is a great program to work with your photos in. You can do things like crop, straighten, fix redeye, retouch, highlight, shadow, change colors, focus, blur, glow, sharpen, make sepia, black and white, and many other possibilities and combinations. Picassa also allows you to post these pictures directly to your blog, make collages, email, print them, create slideshows, and more. At the end of this post are four original pictures, then those same pictures edited and changed through Picassa.
So What?
This is a great tool to help keep pictures organized and personalized exactly how you want them. Through using this free program, your pictures can reflect your personality, enhance creativity, create variety, be more artistic and aesthetically pleasing, draw attention, look more professional, and accomplish specific goals you may have had with that picture. Sharing pictures with others can be easy and fun through this useful program.
Now What?
I'd like to continue experimenting with Picassa and continue to get more knowledgeable and comfortable with all of the possibilities that it offers. This may motivate me to be better at taking pictures, which would be very helpful! I believe it would be easy to apply this in my teaching. By taking pictures of handshapes, Non-Manual Signals (facial expressions), and signs, and then editing these pictures to draw the students' attention to specific features I'd like to emphasize, they may find their homework and assignments more interesting and may recall it easier. Visual learners would benefit greatly from having rich and diverse pictures to study and learn from. Perhaps I could even give them a project to take pictures of certain things, edit and personalize them in Picassa, and create a project from it. There can be a lot of possibilities.
Video: Top Ten Things You Do Not Learn About Teaching in College
10- Why are the bad kids never sick?
9- No matter how sick you are, it's easier to come into school than to write sub plans
8- When your students tell you they really have to go to the bathroom, always believe them
7- Forget your college friends and loved ones. Who's your new best friend? Wipes!
6- How to disarm the school alarm system on the weekends
5-You'll get so sick and tired of hearing your last name, you'll want to change it
4- Your fitness program will consist of carrying your bags to and from the school
3- Two words: Differentiating Instruction
2- The principal's office is still scary
1- Always be good to your Superintendent
I thought this was really funny, so I wrote out these 10 points they mentioned (all of which seem have some bit of truth in them, haha). I think it is true that you can't learn absolutely everything in your college classes- some things will probably have to be learned through the actual experience of teaching your own classroom. It's helpful though, to be ready for as much as you possibly can when going into your teaching experience. Paying attention and putting forth effort in college classes will help, as well as talking with other teachers and getting their advice.
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