Picasa Web Albums and Google Presentations

This week, we finished up our Picasa Web Album and Google Presentation.  I had already posted my Picasa web album, but I included it in this post for you to access easily! We did a scavenger hunt around campus looking for objects for each color on our list.  We then resized these photos and uploaded, organized, captioned, and tagged them in Picasa.  We also learned how to embed them to our blogs and websites.  You can visit my site and look at the technology projects page if you'd like to.  This will be a great classroom tool because I can have my students also do scavenger hunts and create a Picasa web album to show it to their classmates or parents.  It would be great for teaching if I needed to show them several photos.

Instead of using these pictures for our Google presentations, we chose ten photos that were all in the same category.  I chose to do mine on fruits and vegetables, and you can also see this on my website.  I liked using different pictures because we learned about websites that we can use to download free pictures; this way we know with certainty that we aren't breaking copyright laws.  This is also a helpful tool for me as a teacher to create presentations (for students or fellow teachers), or have my students create presentations to present.

We are learning so many great tools in TPTE!  We began learning about Interactive White Boards as well, and I can't wait to tell you all about that tool!