Thing #8

My Presentation

I chose to go to Splashr and it was amazing. If you click on "my presentation" above, you will see the postcards I used from their website by exploring the keywords "flowers, waterfalls, and windmills." I think this website would be interesting to use in an English class because I could utilize words that are directly related to literature and could come up with a slide show or collage that would help the students visualize the authors from whatever time period we were exploring/studying.

This would also be an amazing tool in a field like scrapbooking or perhaps adding that special something to photo albums. I am truly amazed by the people that use their creativity to think up stuff like this. It is really inspiring to people like me that aren't visually creative.

Thing #7

I found this picture on Flickr and loved it because I like flowers so much. Fmontesb is the person that uploaded the picture. I think anybody that grows beautiful flowers if blessed as I don't have a green thumb. Additionally, I think anybody that can take beautiful pictures is also blessed as it has never been my forte - I just recently got a digital camera and have approximately six of those disposable ones that need to be taken in to be developed.

I really liked Flickr because it provides people with an opportunity to share their talents. Additionally, I like the fact that people can comment on the pictures. I think it goes back to my first professor that said we needed to always remember that for some students the only encouragement they get is from us. Providing positive feedback (sometimes anonymously) to the people that take pictures or publish something might be the only encouragement they get as well. Sometimes with so much stress and troubling times in the world, we forget to look for the beauty.

Here is the web address for the pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montesphotography/4401883899/in/photostream/

Peggy