Photo Story with the Digital Camera

I'm really excited about using my Cafeteria Photo Story at the beginning of next school year with my new class! As a teacher of four year olds, I will have students that have moved from a half day 3 year old program to a full day 4 year old program. I will have to teach the children many routines they'll be experiencing for the first time, including eating in the school cafeteria. I think Photo Story will be a fun way to teach new routines, keeping the students interested and engaged. I look forward to sharing this Photo Story with other teachers in my school.

April 23, 2009
I am truly enjoying STEP. I have been introduced to great technology tools. My favorite is the digital camera and the photo story. Today I narrated on a photo story. Hearing my voice still sounds strange but I enjoy it more with the photo story than with the podcasting.

Using Powerpoint to post my document Camera artifacts

Working with powerpoint was not as difficult as figuring out how to upload the finished project. I had many issues trying to figure out how to make my uploaded project work, but I finally figured out the problem. When you upload the powerpoint, or any file, into wikispace, you have to SAVE and close the editing window, and all the things you uploaded will work. I tried to get my stuff to work while I was still in editing mode, and all I saw was this grey square that said 'file' that did nothing.

There is no preview in your wikispaces. You can always go back to edit mode to correct whatever mistakes you make, but you have to save it in order to see if the project is functioning as you want it to. A simple lesson I learned the hard way.

Easter Break

Hello my fellow blogger ,
Well I not going to say much today I am on Easter Break now. My fellow blogger what are you doing for Easter Break.Perhaps thinking about the STEP team project.

Digital Camera Training

Yesterday we had training with the digital camera. Fortunately for me, I have already the same camera and I knew how to use it. The nice part of the training was the photo story part. It was nice until I found out that it was not compatible with Mac computers and it had limited functions for a creative story teller such as I. But you cannot have everything, right?

Technology

I think technology is becoming more avilable to the classroom by taking this STEP program I feel comfortable using it. This has given me an opportunity beyon what the other teachers are doing. Technolgy has so many uses. In the eduation profession I feel more teachers need this opportunity to enhance learning in the classroom.

Podcasting

April 2, 2009
Podcasting!! Sounds interesting and some of the sites were interesting. However I did not like hearing myself J It was truly “weird” to me. I am going to work with this to find my comfort level.