Picassa

Picture #1: Adorable Maggie

Picture #2: My House

Picture #3: Love this face!

Picture #4: Cute Hubby

What:
We learned how to use Picassa.

So What:
Well, I was thinking about why this was significant in the classroom, because really I know and use this stuff all the time but never for school stuff. As I thought about it, I realized that for literary connections this could be pretty fun. I think it would a cool assignment to have my kids go and take pictures of maybe a house or a person or something that they make connections to in a novel we would be reading. Instead of the old fashioned "draw what you think blah blah blah looks like in the book whatsumacallit," I could have students do an entire character and plot sketch on what they might really see through their own world's eyes. Okay, Okay... I am getting really excited right now because this is probably one of my most favorite ideas that has developed through your class.

Now What:
Well I will definitely keep this in mind for my student teaching, because I think connection especially visual and world to world connections can make or break a students reading experience. I know it will be difficult to do an assignment like this because not all students have constant access to a digital camera, but I could have a couple cheap one on hand to loan out for a day at a time (of course I would have to give the class significant notice for an assignment like this, not because of its complexity but because of the digital camera usages).

Video:
I picked my own video because yours wasn't working.
Speaking of connections with stories, I picked a video that I think I could use as a cultural connection. I don't have a book or story in mind, but I really liked the video because it is so funny... in its own peculiar old fashioned way. Anyway I think high school kids would find the video interesting and a little funny, so I think it would make a great opening Cue to start class. I would use it as a connection of world to world of the 50's to present time.
Video:

What to do on a Date 1950s