Thing 13

http://www.dumpr.net/photo/5dcbd73e1bba0631/

I must say that I did have a lot of fun playing around with the different features of the photo editing website.  I have heard of photoshop before, but don't have much experience with it.  If I had this much fun, then I know that students would have fun using this software as well. 

I am really not sure how I would incorporate this type of software into my lesson plans.  One thing that is hard to navigate around is the limited availability of technology.  It seems that there is often a battle for library time where the majority of the school's computers are. 

I do have my students create their own monster when we begin reading The Odyssey.  This would be a fun way to have students create their monster without having them draw one.  I think that my students would really enjoy trying the various elements of the website. 

I do wonder about copyright issues.  I went to a countywide inservice about copyright laws and it sometimes has me worried about what is ok to use and what is not.  I suppose if students are bringing in their own photographs to edit, then it wouldn't be an issue.  I am looking forward to trying this within my class!



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