What?
This week we focused on putting together our presentations for a certain core curriculum. We used picassa to edit our pictures and transfer them. We organized the presentation through google.

So What?
It was actually a good experience going out and taking pictures for this assignment and using our creativity to decide how to get the information across to the students. It is interesting that as a teacher you really have to think on their level. Everything needs to be simplified yet interesting in order to catch and keep attention. Google and Picassa allow color and art and so many visual aspects to be apart of the teaching process.

I am becoming more and more accustom to working the google in that it is convenient to be able to work with many people at once. We were able to all place our pictures when we had the time and even at time were able to all meet up at the same time and chat while doing the assignment. I find it very professional that google is able to update the presentation as we go, so I can be watching their changes and ideas as they go and we can all give feedback. This has been a good tool in my other classes on campus. Many students don't know about this option.

Now What?
What a wonderful tool this will be to have in the classroom. We have been learning so many ways to include all the children in my exceptional students class. My teacher discussed that many children do not understand directions or a subject unless they see a visual. This technology gives us another option then projection machine and poster board.

I love that the students can be involved in this as well. They can go out and take pictures, they can work together at home or at the library along with their parents. This brings me to my next point of involving the parents in their children's lives and homework. Most parents don't want children unsupervised on the computer or using a digital camera, so with this assignment it is necessary that they become more involved in helping their child. For some children this may be a first time that a parent has helped with homework, for others it may be nothing new. This is a great tool!

Video:
This was a very funny video. I love when comedians use silly reality. The opinion I agree with the most is the one where he said that some people put every single word that they are going to say on the power point. This causes not only a dull monotone voice, but you lose the crowd because there is no eye contact and interaction. The next thing that struck me is the fact that many people have very different opinions on colors that should be together. Bright colors on bright colors confuses the eye and a lot of times it does not look the same projected on the big screen as it did on your computer. I have had many professors and friends apologize because the color looked so much bolder on their screen. This is a very funny funny man!