Digital Images Slide Show

This is a slide show created by using the google version of powerpoint. These are various images that we used in our 486 class. They were just uploaded in different formats, so there is no real significance to them. However, there is significance in knowing how to upload various pictures through various methods. Scanning, pictures from the web, digital photos you took, screenshots, understanding all of these different ways of getting a picture to upload is very useful to know. I think if our students do not know how to do any of this, we should teach them how to do it. It will be something useful for them both in and out of the classroom.

If there is no access to Microsoft Powerpoint, or maybe there just needs to be a quicker way to do a slide show presentation, then this google version is extremely useful. It is quick and very easy to use. In fact, I have used Microsoft Powerpoint many times, but I still think this was much easier to learn. Maybe it is not quite as fancy, but I think it will get the job done especially if their are time constraints to the project.

It would be very easy to implement something like this in a classroom. I could think of many things I could make my students do slide show projects for regarding History or Geography on the high school level. Even if they are not very computer savvy, I think they could still be able to use this program. Also, making students do these kinds of projects will allow them to engage in the material a little deeper. For example, if I require them to do a project on WWII, then I can ask them to provide all kinds of things. I may require a picture, information about it, or some kind of video or audio from the time period relating to the war. You can do all kinds of things with these presentations and make it fun and interactive.I definitely would like to try it out in my classroom and see how it would work.