Digital Cameras and Picasa

What? This week we learned about Picasa and how to manipulate images using this program.  We also used these images and put them into a power point presentation and then we put these two things onto our classroom website.
So What?To me as a student right now it doesn't really mean much to me except a grade and it was time consuming.  The scavenger hunt was fun, and manipulating the pictures was fun and I think in the future I would use this program, but putting these onto a website was hard for me.  I understand that it could be helpful in the future in helping me to know how to import and link it to other websites. We are doing this to help us to get a feel for technology and learning how to be able to share ideas with other people and collaborate with others. In my other classes it probably wont help me at all.  Most of my classes don't deal with the technology but deal with physical activity. This technology is good to know but I don't think I will ever use it as much as I did in this class and I thought that it was a pain to link it to other websites. To my colleagues it is beneficial to know so that we can collaborate together and share ideas.

Now What? To my future students I think it will be a lot of work. I don't know if I would ever assign this much computer work to my PE class.? This helped me with my current schema just by showing me that they are tons of resources and good free programs out there that can enhance my lessons. I don't think this will change the type of teacher I will be in the future because I will be focusing more on making sure my students are being active and participating in exercise activities. I still am trying to figure out how I would assign projects that use these types of programs so that learn how to better use technology while learning how to be active and learning the basic concepts and cues of sports. This knowledge of programs may help in enhancing my lesson but a lot of my lessons are going to be direct instruction and the students wont be sitting down and watching power points. This information may help me be a better colleague because it will help me to find ways to keep in touch with other teachers and it will help me to try and find different ways to better teach my students and searching for advice from my fellow teachers. This may change the type of collaboration by us trying to help each other find other programs and ideas for our class and we could be able to share our ideas with each other without having to meet together and we can communicate through pictures and email and other forms of communication.