Picasa Mountain Collection

This slideshow is similar to the scavenger hunt activity except the pictures have been gathered through various methods. During this assignment, I picked a central theme of mountains and collected pictures through different modes such as online collection, digital camera, and scanner. Then, I complied the photos using a tool in Picasa, an online photo tool.

This activity is great for having students explore and use different technology skills. They must obtain the pictures using various modes and then import them into a slideshow online. The only disadvantage for using it to learn general education content is that the requirement of so many methods may take too much time. To make this assignment more time effective and educational, I would probably require students to use any method of obtaining the pictures they liked and base more of the grade on the actual content. However, this assignment is great for a pre-teacher education class since students can learn various methods of collecting pictures to use later in their classrooms.