Reflection 7

What?
This week i am learning that i can take pictures to help teach my class a core subject. We are specifically learning how to take pictures, upload them onto the computer and eventually make a slide show with them.
So What?
This can apply to my life right now in a few ways. By knowing how to do this i can take pictures and put them on projects to make them look more professional. I can also do this with group work to make something look more presentable.
Learning how to use this technology can help me, not only now in school or when i am a teacher, but for the rest of my life. I now know how to take pictures and put them onto my computer so that i can always have them. I can also make a slide show of my family this past year to remind them of our fun times.
Now What?
I am pretty confident that this technology will help my students in the classroom and make learning and teaching more fun. My kids will enjoy having student of the week and having a picture of that classmate on the board instead of just his name. Also i think that learning can be more fun and easier to understand when you associate it with a picture. That way the kids can visualize what i am trying to teach them.
I also think that with this teachnology i can bring it to my department and show them how cool and effective using pictures can be. Then as a team we can come up with a few different assignments of fun things that we could do with taking pictures. Like i said earlier student of the week. Also you can do a slide show teaching the students something, or the students can make their own slide show for a book report, or any other project. There are so many fun and different ways that the students can learn through pictures.
Video Reflection
I really liked this weeks video. I think that the top ten things were really funny and somwhat very true. I also think that it is really good to hear the truth about what does go on in the schools. Like they said, why are the bad kids never sick, and that the pricipals office can still be scary, and that you just might have to go into work on the weekends. I just thought it was a good thing to hear and know that it does go on in the schools, and it's the truth.