Image Formats

This activity was very informative. To download graphic images, I went to Microsoft Word's online clipart site to find images. I wanted to find images that dealt with what I had taught in Kindergarten the other day. I taught them about the four seasons and the life cycle of leaves as they change between the four seasons. I found images of fall trees, winter trees, spring trees, and summer trees to show this. For the fifth picture, I added in a jack-o-latern just for fun. Here is my spreadsheet on the images I found.

Spreadsheet

Here is my narrative explaining my experience with this activity.

Module 3- Reading Narrative

At first, I had a lot of trouble reading through this article; so I read it and re-read it over and over again. I finally understood what the authors were trying to convey. Here is my narrative on the article Multimodal Reading Through Media.

Graphic Screen Grab

When looking for a picture, I wanted to find one to celebrate the upcoming holiday... Halloween. I went under Google and searched for Halloween images. I found this beautiful picture of a jack-o-latern with fall leaves in a beautiful setting. I wasn't sure exactly how the Print Screen button worked, so I read about it in the link provided in Module 3. After reading the instructions, it seemed pretty easy. I pressed the Print Screen button on my keyboard on that page. Then, I opened up paint and pressed "ctrl" and "v" together to paste the picture into Mircosoft Paint.

I quickly realized that it pasted the entire web page... not just the picture. So I selected the picture, copied it, and pasted it into a new Paint. Then, I created a text box using the text box tool and typed in "Happy Halloween" in the text box. Next, I played with the eyedropper tool and found a color in the picture to fill in my text box with. I found this yellow color inside the Jack-O-Latern and clicked it with the eye dropper and filled it in the text box. Then I used the paint brush tool to fill in as many white spaces as I could. I saved the file as JPEG on My Computer under My Pictures. To upload it to my blog, I clicked on the "Add Images" link and posted it here. The picture's dimensions are 512x555 and the size is 42.1 KB.

This is a tool I would've loved to know how to use in my student teaching. Like I stated in some of my blogs, my students (during my student teaching) were very visual learners. In sight of this, I often used Power Point to present my lessons. I used a lot of clip art to show pictures of the terms/ideas I was teaching. This is a great tool that I could use when making my Power Point lessons. I can grab any graphic off the Internet with this tool and insert into Paint. Here I can edit my picture and then place it in my Power Point presentation. My students could also benefit from learning a skill like this. If they needed to find images on a history project they were doing (for example) they could use this tool to find the images, edit them, and then present them. There are endless ways this tool can be used in the classroom.

Graphics from Scratch

This was a very interesting and fun assignment. I am by no means a great artist, but how can you be only using five lines? It will be very interesting to see how everyone else's in the class turns out too. To create my five line self portrait, I went into Microsoft Paint. I started to make a face out of an oval, but I soon realized I could only use five lines; and if I created a face, I would have to choose between no nose or no mouth. So instead I created the shape of my face by creating my hair. I used the spraypaint option and picked the color yellow to represent my blonde hair. Second, I created my two eyes. I used the oval option to create the shape of both eyes, and then I filled them in blue. Now I have used three lines. Fourth, I used the pencil option to make my nose. Lastly, I used the paint brush to make my mouth. I was very suprised I could do it in five lines. After I completed it, I saved it as a 24-bit bitmap (or .bmp). I uploaded it to Google Docs and created a link here: 5 Line Self Portrait

This would be a fun and interactive tool to use in the classroom. One way I thought of doing this is by incoporating it with PowerPoint. I would put the students into groups and have them write their own story/book. Then, they could illustrate pictures for their stories in Microsoft Paint; and each illustration for each page would have a criteria (i.e. it can only be done in 5 or 10 lines). Then, they could import their illustrations into Power Point... with each illustration having its own slide. Then, they could write a story on the Power Point slides to go with each illustration. After that, they could present their stories/books to the rest of the class using a Power Point presentation. Depending on the grade level, they could even narrate it in Microsoft Photo Story. I think students would have a lot of fun with this activity!

Module 2 Reflection

Here is my reflection paper on Module 2 :-)

Module II Reflection