In these past few days, I have learned more about digital images than ever before. I had to create a digital image collection by using 5 different methods: one image being taken by a digital camera, one scanned picture, one that was copied from a CD/DVD clipart photo collection, one that was downloaded from the web and one that was taken as a screen shot. Before I did this project I only knew how to do two, which were taking one with a camera and taking a screen shot. With instruction, I quickly learned how to do the other three. I was a little anxious before I figured out how to do them because I had never done it before. It all worked out though because I got my 5 images through the 5 different methods. After the 5 pictures were obtained, we were instructed to put them into Picasa web albums, which is a site through google. This as well was very new to me because I had never heard of it before. Picasa allowed me to store my 5 pictures into an album (which is below by the way!) This method of storing my photos through Picasa was very useful and efficient! I really enjoyed uploading the photos because it was SO easy! Usually I always seem to have trouble with this kind of stuff but it was so self explanatory and easy that I was able to figure it out 100% on my own, which I was very proud of if I do say so myself.
One frustration that I had with this assignment was the resizing of the pictures. Our direction instructed us to keep the pictures at 72 dpi and the photos had to be saved as either "jpegs," "gifs" or "png" files, which before this project, I had NO idea what those letters even meant! I had briefly read about them in our book and we had talked about them in class a few times, but probably should have read over it a little more so I could better understand what the difference between them were. I ended up learning somewhat about what they all did through this assignment, but I definitely think I need to read more about them in the book so I have a full understanding. Learning about digital images was quite an experience and learning about the different ways in which they can be saved was also an experience in itself. I am happy I got more educated with digital images because I definitely see myself needing to use them in the classroom one day. All the 5 ways in which I found these photos definitely seem like ways that I will need to obtain pictures in the classroom and my new knowledge on how to save these photos will definitely help me when I start teaching!
One frustration that I had with this assignment was the resizing of the pictures. Our direction instructed us to keep the pictures at 72 dpi and the photos had to be saved as either "jpegs," "gifs" or "png" files, which before this project, I had NO idea what those letters even meant! I had briefly read about them in our book and we had talked about them in class a few times, but probably should have read over it a little more so I could better understand what the difference between them were. I ended up learning somewhat about what they all did through this assignment, but I definitely think I need to read more about them in the book so I have a full understanding. Learning about digital images was quite an experience and learning about the different ways in which they can be saved was also an experience in itself. I am happy I got more educated with digital images because I definitely see myself needing to use them in the classroom one day. All the 5 ways in which I found these photos definitely seem like ways that I will need to obtain pictures in the classroom and my new knowledge on how to save these photos will definitely help me when I start teaching!
By clicking on the picture below, you will be able to see my very own Picasa web album that I created with my 5 photos! (I chose a flower/nature theme for all my pictures if you couldn't already tell)
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