Thing 2 : Photo Sharing

This has been a fun topic to explore, and ended up branching off into lots of other areas and ideas as well - both for personal and school use! Below is an image of the horse my daughter sponsors at a nearby horse rescue. I went to the website for the rescue, found the image, downloaded it, and for the first time - just uploaded an image to a blog posting. Easy as can be! I never knew you could add images to blog postings!

I also explored Shutterfly. I did already have an account and used it for photo storage, but I decided to branch out and use it to create some photo-themed holiday gifts. I used my uploaded photos to create a 2015 calendar of my kids to give their grandparents, and also went to my newly engaged niece's Facebook page, downloaded some of the pics she's posted of her and her fiancé , and used them to create a very cool holiday ornament for her! So fun!!

I also really enjoyed exploring the site BigHugeLabs - so many things to do there with my students! Can't wait to have them create trading cards (which I used the picture below to create a trading card for my daughter's pony - again, very fun!) I plan to have my students create trading cards for favorite books they've read and post them on my library webpage.  There are several other activities on this site that I hope to use with my students.

I am really loving this course and finding so many things I want to use I don't know how to fit them all in the school year!