For my second emerging techonology I found an interesting webstite that could incorporate how to use pictures in techonolgy. The site is called Roxio and the program that they have is called photoshow.
Photoshow is a fast and extremelly easy way that people can upload pictures that they have on their hardrives to a slideshow system that can create fun and creative shows. The program is really easy to use, and I think that it would be a great way to upload pictures so you can use them in an interactive way like in a classroom or maybe creating a presentation of reasearch photos.
Some of the cool tools that the program has is one can create; different boarders, captions, quotes, add stickers, or even add music to each individual slide. I actually think think that this would be an ideal program to make up a slideshow at maybe someones funeral. As sad as that sounds, I believe I have seen this program used and made into a DVD so it could be shown at funeral showings. I mean it is pretty ideal for this, but I know there are dozens of other uses that this program could be used for too.
In the future I think that Roxio photoshow could be used in my classroom to create a slideshow of pictures that I have gained throughout the years from visiting different things in the world. Some of these things could be like historical artifacts and monuments so that the students can get a better look at the important monuments other than the pictures the book supplies.
All in all, if you are having a tough time creating or uploading your photoshow here is a website that will take you to multiple of helpful tutorials. But, I am sure that you will be able to figure it out, because I am a dope in technology, and I figured it out easily. And below I have added my own photoshow with some uploads of friends and family, so enjoy.
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I feel you that it might be a little weird posting all the students pictures. When I was in primary school we had a "student of the week" where we'd bring in pictures and details about ourselves to share with the rest of the class. Some teachers had a bulletin board, some would do a project. But I think with picasa and the map feature, you could make a really cool social studies project, mapping out places your students have been then discussing in class. For example, if someone went to Washington, DC you could tie that into a government lesson, or if they went to Yellow Stone National Park you could talk about the park system founded in 1909. I didn't necessarily mean that the students had to bring pictures of themselves. I just wanted to shoot some feed back to you and thanks for the comment.
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