Digital photos and Top ten things You do not learn about teaching in College Video

This week learning about digital photos and Picasa was great. I haven’t worked with Picasa very much. I think it’s a great program that can help you enhance and work with pictures you have taken. I enjoyed enhancing and changing the pictures I chose to use on this assignment. I think it is great that we can crop the photos to focus on what we want to. I am not the best photographer so it helps me!

This past week I needed to take an image I received and crop it. I tried to figure out how to do it and I didn’t have Picasa on my computer and I didn’t even think to use that. If I had had this lesson a week earlier I could have used that to crop it! Now I know where to go for all my cropping and enhancing of my images needs. This lesson of digital cameras can come in handy with my other classes if I need to do a presentation that I have to take pictures of the students I am teaching and things like that.

I can use this information we learned this week as a drama teacher a lot. I will be putting on plays and taking pictures of the students during their plays, scenes and even monologues. It will help them see what they look like while they are performing and help them with their acting. Picasa also helps you make your photos look better. This will come in handy if your pictures come out with red eyes and you can take that out. I can also have the students take pictures of their classmates while they are performing and help their classmates become better actors. I really am excited to use Picasa in the future.

Top Ten Things You Do Not Learn About Teaching in College

I really enjoyed the video this week. It showed some things that are true and funny. Since I am just learning to write lesson plans I can see how #9 is very true. It would be easier to come into school than to write a sub plan when you are sick. I’ve tried to make my lesson plan applicable to anyone who reads them but still, for drama some the sub probably couldn’t perform a pantomime for the class when I am doing a direct instruction lesson plan.