Digital Collection Activity

This activity was a blast! I had so much fun looking for digital images that pertained to my theme. I chose elementary are because I felt this theme might be helpful to me at some point and I wanted to have a collection of images ready to use.  As I began to look for pictures, I searched for "Elementary Art" in the Google image collection. Right away, I found several pictures that were perfect for the activity.  It was actually really hard to choose just one to upload.  Next, I remembered having taken some pictures of childrens artwork at my practicum placement last year.  I quickly found the pictures on my flash drive and uploaded them to picasa.  Then, I Google searched "Elementary Art" again, but this time I looked for websites featuring artwork. It wasn't long before I found a picture to take a screen shot of.  This was probably the hardest part of the whole activty since I was on a PC and not a Mac.  In my experience, it is much easier to take a screen shot on a Mac.  In any case, I managed to get the screen shot and upload it to by Picasa album.  My next step was finding an image on a cd/dvd collection. This was fairly easy since the entire class went together to find images on computers in the 4th floor lab.  When I found the picture I wanted, I saved it to my flash drive and then uploaded it to my Picasa album. Finally, I scanned an image from a book and loaded it onto Picasa. 

After all the pictures were loaded on my Picasa album, I resized them using picnik.  This was super easy! I then saved the changes and returened to my album to add captions to each of my photos.  Upon adding the captions, I was done with the assignment.

I really enjoyed this activity and feel this process was helpful to learn.