Google Presentation: Hunt

The scavenger hunt I was assigned to was alphabet letters A through L. My group was to roam around the University of Tennessee campus and find objects that started with the letters A through L. Once we found our object we were to take a picture. After finding all the objects that started with the correct letter we came back to the classroom and loaded them onto our Mac computers. Then, we were to post them onto Google presentation and create a slideshow. I thought this activity went quite well. My group got stuck on a few letters, as easy as we thought it was going to be, but we put our imagination to work and found what we needed. Google Presentation was easy to use and created the slideshow pretty quickly. I think Google Presentation could have more format options, but other than that the whole assignment was fun and went well.

I could use Google Presentation in my professional instruction by teaching students the alphabet, animals at the zoo, weather patterns, and endless concepts and lessons. Google Presentation makes it accessible to teachers by having all teacher's slideshows in one place and quick to find each year when it is time for a certain lesson. Also, to have my students go on a scavenger hunt and find certain objects for an educational purpose would be a beneficial hands-on activity. I would have older students use the Google Presentation themselves. I believe it would be a different and advance way to learn a new concept.

I'm not sure what I would do differently, because I thought everything went over well. However, trying to make the slideshow more appealing would be the first thing I would change if I had too. Also, I could have tried to make the pictures more visualizing inviting, but for the most part I thought they worked just fine!

Picnik Snapshot

I really enjoyed learning about Picnik. I had always wonder how my friends got their pictures to look so artsy and different on Facebook. Now I know how to edit and really alter my pictures for the better. I took one of my pictures from Facebook and edited the color scheme, whitened the teeth, and made the border of the picture into a Polaroid. This Web 2.0 took has been one of favorite so far! I will definitely be using Picnik in the future.