Photo Sharing Tools

These different sites have a lot in common, however, there are some capabilities that I think would be great in teaching. I have decided that I like bubble share the best. I really like the ability to add caption bubbles, clip art and audio clips to photos. This could be really fun to use in teaching. I think it would be fun for the students to create their own stories using pictures they take with digital cameras. Then they could create their own slide show using their pictures with the captions, clip art and audio clips. I would have them read their story as they present their slide show. This would be a good way to have them use their creativity and writing skills as well.

Another idea is to have students put together a slide show for a report. I think I would have them just use pictures from the internet, or it they want, they could use a digital camera to take pictures that pertain to their topic and upload them to their computer. The captions and clip art would come in handy for the report as well.

Geometry book

This assignment was quite a learning curve for me. I had never used a program like this one before. With help however, I did learn the basics. If third and fourth grade students have had experience with computers I think they would be able to learn this program fairly quickly. They might get into it and learn more than I know about it that's for sure. It could be a creative and interesting way for students to show what they have learned about geometry.

The thing I like most about it is that students are more likely to be engaged in learning geometry than if they just learned it from a math book. Getting out of the classroom and taking pictures of shapes would be very exciting! Then downloading them would make the shapes come to life and give the students hands on experiences so that they could learn the material and have fun in the process.