Opposites: Scavenger Hunt

This project required us to go on a scavenger hunt, taking photos of assigned objects. My category was opposites! I was excited about this category because it left so much room for creativity. I actually used two different cameras to obtain my pictures. I used my ipod and a digital camera. I must say I think the ipod took the better pictures. I tried to be creative in my responses. Uploading my pictures from the camera and ipod was the easy part. Cropping the photos, uploading to Picassa, and renaming them was the confusing part! We moved very quickly in class and I quickly felt overwhelmed. I needed the one on one instruction to be able to complete this assignment. I am not as up to speed or intuitive as others may be, so I got a little frustrated. However, with the help from my instructor and my neighbor I was able to catch up. It is good to know how to resize photos and this was a good lesson for me. However, I was not crazy about the google slide show. I do like SmileBox! I think it is really cute and actually easy to use. I also like all the different options for newsletter, slideshow, music, collage, and so on. It seems to really have all the templates I would need for uploading pictures. It was good to know how to post my SmileBox slide show onto my blog. I just am not sure how big of a blogger I will be in the future. Blogging is a nice way to reflect on what you have read and been involved in. I could see myself blogging if other teachers at my school did as well. To take a screen shot, shift-command-4, is simple enough, I just am still a little unclear as to when I would need to take one? Technology has so many different things to offer that do similar things. It is up to me to narrow down the sites that I prefer most. Today was successful in introducing me to SmileBox. I really like it and think it will be my go to site for picture collaborations!