Digital Imagery

This week in class we learned all about digital images. I have been familiar with cameras and photos for my whole life. We live in the digital age so posting pictures to the internet and uploading and editing have always seemed to be second nature.

This week I just got more comfortable with taking pictures off the internet, placing them in folders, and resizing them to be more usable. One thing that stuck with me that Dr. Obannon said was that in this age we are no longer aware of memory space. We upload pictures to Facebook without even realizing how much the serves of Facebook must hold. It was good to learn how to resize and store and be aware that you can't make a bad quality picture bigger. It just won't work!

In the classroom, I am going to be using slideshows and presentations that I hope to fill with pictures to keep my students attention. If we are studying penguins, I hope to fill the slideshow with pictures of penguins eating, penguins swimming, penguins caring for their young, etc. Hopefully I can know what are good pictures to grab from the internet and utilize the websites that Dr. Obannon gave to us.

Resources

Looking up resources is nothing new. My entire life spent on the internet is searching on Google for information, analyzing the sites that come up, and collecting information. Searching for things on the internet just seems second nature.

Compiling resources in to one huge wiki seemed a little pointless at first. Why can't I just search for them when I am a teacher? I probably overestimate the time I am going to have to just spend time researching things. How convenient is it that I am going to have separated into categories reliable, good websites for my use in the classroom.

Obviously in the classroom, subjects are going to arise that I do not have a website for. This has taught me that it is important to compile them all that I use over the course of my teaching career. By the time I have been teaching for ten years, my compilation of website resources will be massive and I will have the BEST websites for each subject.