An unsuccessful attempt at photographing Caleigh while avoiding merging :)My project 1 has been completed for a few days and now that I have thought about it (and checked the message board on Oncourse), I wanted to make an entry that covers all my bases. While I was working on this project, I enjoyed taking many pictures. Once I started photographing a subject, I found that I was coming up with more ideas easily. My camera cooperated and only told me that the batteries were exhausted one time (I had a spare pair in the car). I was amazed that the batteries lasted so long! I had not changed them since the start of class. My challenges were: catching my little girl without merging, entertaining the little one while continuing to take pictures, choosing the final six, and dial-up Internet(waiting to get to IUSB to upload the file in Drop Box). I learned that I am a very organized person when I want to be (I knew at all times which principles I still needed to search for. I also learned that I feel pretty confident behind a camera and fiddling with some of the different features. Last, but not least, I learned how to lower the resolution on the camera so that my picture files were not so big. The Nikon CoolPix has a setting that is actually geared towards pictures that you want to display on a computer screen! As for classroom applications, I think that teaching students how to take better photos would result in better presentations and help students gain confidence in their ability to take awesome photos and wow their classmates. I am still unsure of how to get a camera into my students' hands. I know that some of the students will always have access to that kind of technology, but then some will not. I am thinking that some of the parents might not want to send their cameras to school with their child(ren) due to the cost of replacing and the chance of theft/loss.
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