Week 4

First of all, I would like to start off by saying what a nice lesson this has been. I loved seeing all these different types of ways, and hows, and why's of using pictures. Photofunia was a very fun website and I did end up wasting some time there. Using pictures is so important for our students and we really need to learn to adapt to that. As someone who is studying special ed and have done a lot of observations in the past few years, it seems that a large majority of our students would fit into this category. If you show a student a worksheet full of sentences that he has to fill in the blank, this can easily cause a lot of distress in anxiety. However, when you take that same exact worksheet, and fill it in with nice and colorful pictures not only does it take away the anxiety but it grabs their attention and gets them to start working. It's really such a great phenomenon. 

In one of the blogs I am following, he talks about keys for successful digital transformations. A huge key to success has a lot to do with what we have learned in this week's lesson. "Nobody likes change, but the fact is that change is at our doorstep." If you can't beat em, join em. So it was really nice to learn that when using Paint, i can use my own personal picture as a paintbrush. :). I'm definitely going to always do that! Now that we have technology at our footsteps, we can work much smarter, not harder, meaning to use it in a more effective and efficient manner.