Online Photo sharing tools

Bubbleshare seems to be the most simple put of the three photo sharing tools that we covered in class on Monday. It allows you to upload multiple pictures at once, add characters, video and sound to your album, and tag your photos. If I were to use one of these online photo sharing tools it would be Bubbleshare. I think kids would really enjoy adding sound to their photos as well as other images or video. It also would be the easiest for student to navigate around in a short amount of time. Photobucket allows you to send pictures to Myspace, Facebook, and even cell phones. I think that there were too many inappropriate photos right on the front page to use in a classroom. Flickr allows you to easily set up an account where you upload photos from your desktop, email or your cellphone, it then allows you to create albums, create a map to show where the photos was taken and make photo books, cards, and DVDs. I think that this could be a fun way for students to share photos for assignments but I think that it would require heavy monitoring and firewalls. In Flickr it allows you to create a group, if you were using this in a school you could create a group for your class and then only allow students to view only photos in your group.

Geometry Assignment

I loved doing this assignment! I think that this would be a good assignment to have students learning geometry do because it ties geometry to the real world. Students are always asking how they will use math they learn in real life, and this does a good job of having students find that connection for themselves. In order to find the photos they could use, they would have to have an understanding of what each item is establishin that base of knowledge. Then, when asked to create their own definition, it helps students to organize their ideas and explain their thought process. I think that this would be a good assessment of who understands the concepts and who doesn't. In order to balance the time between geometry and technology you would need to create blocks. For example, give the students 45 minutes to take pictures one day and then the next day have them create their books with their pictures, Then the next day have them add their defnitions and complete the book. I also think that is important that it is clear that your main focus for grading will be that the definintions and pictures are correct, and that it should look nice but appearance isn't the focus of the assignment.