Weekly Blog Number 6 (October 11, 2009)

This week in class we learned about digital cameras. We learned a lot of fun ways to use digital cameras in our classrooms. We learned that by using digital cameras we can save a lot of time and money. We had to get in our groups and make a presentation teaching some curriculum, using our pictures.It was a fun and relaxing assignment for me.

By using digital cameras, I can make learning new concepts interesting. These cameras are fun to use in the classroom, because children really respond to pictures. Children love to take pictures and they love to see themselves in pictures.I think that by using digital cameras, I could teach many things; and by using pictures that we have taken children will become excited and more involved in the learning process.

In the future, I think it would be fun to use a lot of pictures that we have taken as a class to put up around our classroom. We could have pictures for letters of the alphabet, animals, colors, etc. I think that it would also be fun to take pictures throughout the school year. I could take pictures of our class in each unit that we are in, and then I could post them on our classroom blog.One idea I had that might be fun, would be; as a class we could have a lesson on the environment. We could go around the school and take pictures of our environment. Then, I could put a presentation together and show the class. The students could also take pictures of their "home" environment, and they could put a little poster together for the class. I just think that things like that could be really fun.

The mashup video we had to watch this week was awesome. I loved that someone was clever enough to put all these clips together to make one big video, that flowed so well. I think that it was very creative and I think that students would love to have assignments like this in the classroom. The other video we were supposed to watch, I could not find on teachertube.