Thing 16 - PhotoPeach and Final Evaluation

For PhotoPeach I created a short summer slideshow:

Abby's Summer on PhotoPeach


This was really a neat tool and SOOOOO easy to use.  I could easily see this used to display student work at open house or even use in digital story telling within the classroom.  I also could see it used with science for content like habitats or even living/nonliving.

Reflections

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
I think my favorite discoveries included Zoho docs (so much easier for me to use than Google docs in some ways), PhotoPeach and blogging!  I have always wanted to blog but never thought I had that much interesting to really blog about.  This is making me realize that blogging in the classroom and using it as a tool to extend my teaching to my students outside of the traditional day is definitely possible and will be fun.  Blogging is not necessarily personal, it can be a wonderful tool to use professionally as well.

 2. How has this type of program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
I think it has definitely helped me to add to my toolbox and I like that it is in one place that I can go back to and reference if need be or even add to.  I also feel like it helped me realized that learning doesn't have to be huge involved projects.  By breaking down each learning exercise into smaller bites, I as a student can go deeper and spend more time focusing and developing my expertise in that particular area.  I think this is an important concept to remember when we are teaching our students in the classroom.

 3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
I think one of the biggest unexpected outcomes is that now that everything is so "connected" it is a lot easier to use these different tools than I realized.  By being able to share resources across multiple applications I can use my phone in a lot of ways in the classroom and then easily make that content available to students and/or parents.  

 4. What could I do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
To be honest, I can't think of one thing that I would change.  I felt like it was paced exceptionally well, I thought the activities were nicely organized with wonderful resources and links to support our learning.  I thought the activities themselves were challenging and fun to complete.  Overall,  I think this program has been wonderful and I hope someday to be able to share something like this with either my campus or team.