The Power of PhotoShop

This week I had one of those eye opening aha(not how you spell it) moments when I finally realized how much that a person can do with Photoshop. Our teacher has given us an assignment to make a poster for our class, and I have been thinking and thinking about what I can do, and then all of the sudden it clicked, Why don't I make a propaganda poster using Dr. Sues! It was a genius idea. I haven't gotten all of the details worked out but I know that by using the tasks that we have learned this week in class with all of the different tools in Photo shop, I can really do pretty much whatever I need to do for my history classes. I have yet to explore the endless possibilities but through this class and the assignments of this week I will defiantly take full advantage of these endless possibilities.

Photo Shop

What a week it has been in our InsT class. We have picked up (or at least attempted to) some pretty neat tricks in the program Photo Shop. What wonderful things can be done with one simple program. I am still getting the hang of it a bit, but the purpose of learning about photo shop this week is to help us broaden our horizon and get us thinking out side of the box. In my specific content area of History Education I can use this Photo shop program to edit any pictures that I would like. How cool is that. What a fun way to make things more fun and interesting for each student in my class. The whole purpose of teaching is to help students learn and comprehend the material presented. In the past teachers have just spewed forth tons upon tons of information and have expected the students to regurgitate that information when it came time to take the test. By making class fun, and in this case it will be using images, and things such as this edited in photo shop to make learning fun and exciting for the students. If the material is presented in a different variety of ways the likelihood of students actually understanding and comprehending the information is very high!!!

This week in class we explored the many facets of Iphoto as well as Comic Life. It was very neat to see what kinds of different things we can do with just a simple picture. In the classroom we as teachers can utilize multiple sources such as Iphoto and Comic life to present the information in new and diverse ways that may help the students learn the material covered better. It is a lot of fun to run these programs and I will surely be exploring in more detail what these programs can do and what different things they can offer for the students of my class. We can even have our students use these programs to create class projects and different things like that. All-in-all these programs will add a whole different dimension in how the material can be presented and how it can be learned.