Hunt - Shapes! (Picasa)

Google Presentation


This week we have been learning how to use Picasa and Google Presentation. We used these programs to create a digital scavenger hunt. My particular scavenger hunt was for Shapes. The assignment was to go outside and find these shapes in nature, and to photograph them. This activity would be great to use in the classroom as individual projects or as a class activity. We used Picasa to share our photos for the scavenger hunt and to create a slide show. Next, we uploaded the photos to Google Presentation to create a presentation similar to a power point. Both of these will be great tools to use in the classroom for so many things such as student presentations, teacher-lesson presentations, sharing pictures for classroom activities and events. What went well for me was that the images were very easy to load into both Picasa and Google Presentation. Next time I will take more time to make the presentation more visually appealing and interesting to look at.

Smile Box - Invite

Customize a free invitation

Smile Box will be a great tool to use both in and outside of the classroom for me. What went well for me was primarily learning that Smile Box even existed! I had never heard of it before. Smile Box will be great for creating invitations to classroom events, parent meetings, and so much more. What I would do differently is focus on adding a personal image to the "spooky" invitation that we created during class.

Creating a website!

Last week we started working on our websites. Ms. Trimble's Classroom website is up and running, so check it out! Throughout the semester, we will continue to work on our websites. I found that creating and setting up a website is really a lot easier than I ever thought it would be. I guess you could say that this is what went well for me during the process of getting started. At this point everything is running smoothly and I really haven't run into much difficulty. I really would not do anything differently next time around!

Picnik!