The Hunt! (Picasa and Google Presentations Slideshow)

Our class was divided into groups and each group participated in a different scavenger hunt together. My groups task was to find a real world object beginning with each of the letters A-F and take a picture of it. Since we were on campus, it was difficult to find some of the letters, such as A and K. However, we did our best to think of, and find objects for those letters. Some of the letters were easy to find objects for and quickly take pictures of. It was a lot of fun, and I think that my future students would enjoy practicing letters and vocabulary this way. I will use this in my future classroom, most likely together as a class since I will be working with younger students. The only thing I would do differently as the teacher to make it easier for younger children would be to brainstorm possible objects with them before beginning the search, and making sure there is something for each letter before introducing the activity.    

After doing the scavenger hunt with my group in class, these are slideshows I created to document our findings. I used Picasa for the first one and Google Presentations for the second one. Both are free tools provided by google for photo and information sharing.









Both of these tools can be used for sharing pictures with one person or with many people. Google presentations can be used to create presentations besides picture sharing also. These are useful because they are free and can be accessed from the web at anytime. I will most likely use these tools for creating presentations for my class and with my students. These tools are fairly easy to use. Uploading pictures to both is simple and can be done fairly quickly. The only thing I think I would do differently with the slideshow next time is choose a different type of background.

Smilebox!!

This is a Halloween invitation I created using the tool Smilebox. This tool can be used to create a variety of fun things for different themes and occasions. Visit the Smilebox website to explore all the possibilities. I think a lot of people would enjoy it as much as I do.

This digital invite created with Smilebox