Images4Education – learning experience

As part of my commitment to life long learning, I have signed up for a six-week online workshop offered through the Electronic Village Online, Exploring Images in the 21st Century Classroom.

I plan on using the classroomblogging.com site to record my experiences through out the workshop. It is a free and anyone can join. It is a packed class with over 180 participants but there is lots of room considering the workshop is online and self directed.

Here is a descriptor of the workshops.

You will be introduced to various online image manipulation tools and will learn how to effectively incorporate these resources into their teaching practices. You will explore how images can be used in educational settings for photo sharing, storytelling, slideshows and comics creation, as well as understand how Creative Commons licensing can be beneficial for classroom use. By the end of the workshop, you will have the chance to develop a plan to begin incorporating digital production into their lesson plans.

Reading the contributions from Berta, one of the participants in her blog post
about taggalaxy I made this image just for fun.
It was incredibly easy to create – I went to the web site www.tagglaxy.com entered a tag or term in the input field when prompted. (in this case I used the word parent). I then used Skitch Free and excellent screen capture application for Macs.

Uploaded just like any other picture to this blog post. It is a very impressive image.