Scavenger Hunter using Digital Cameras...

About a week ago in class, we were instructed to get into groups because we would be going on a scavenger hunt with our digital cameras. Initially, I really did not know what we would be doing, I just knew that it probably involved leaving the classroom to go find different things. Based off of our licensure area, we were placed into group of two or three and we were given a sheet that instructed us of our activity and what we were supposed to find. I was in a group of three and our assignment was titled "Shape-up elementary" we were instructed to go outside of the classroom (during class time), to find things around campus that were of different shapes. (i.e.-we had to find something that was round, a triangle, a rectangle, etc) After we had all of our digital photos (a total of 12 for our group), we were instructed to put them on the computer and to resize all of them so that they were at 72 dpi. We were also instructed to crop the pictures where necessary and to make sure that the pictures were clear and to make sure they were saved as jpg, gif or png files. I was surprised at how much I knew already from what we have learned in class to be able to change my photos around and save them in different ways.
      It was comforting and relieving to finally know exactly how to convert a picture based off what I have already learned from this class. It was nice and useful to be able to transfer my knowledge from one assignment to another. After this, we each put the pictures on a flash drive and were instructed to each independently make a powerpoint with all the shapes, and then to put this powerpoint into google presentations. Above, you will see my powerpoint that I put into google presentations and then embedded into my blog. I am very pleased with how my presentation came out and I feel as though I really followed all of the directions to get this assignment done. It was definitely a helpful assignment that gave me more practice with digital cameras, image resizing and saving images. Practice makes perfect, and in since we just did a digital images project before this, I feel that this scavenger hunt was just more of the practice we needed with digital images!