Monday, February 17, 2014

Tech Savy

I have already learned so much about camera, apps, and editing just from our first week!  Other than I am a new mom and have exhausted my space on my iphone already, I do not know anything about camera apps.  I have downloaded the instagram app (mainly because everyone else I know uses it), however I have not done anything with it.
I am weary of using photo hosting sites.  I recently have been trying to figure out a way to “back-up” all of my photos.  It seemed through my research, I need a portable hard drive.  Now I am looking into the photo hosting site.  I have used shutter-fly, but it takes forever to upload photos.  That is a drawback for me, I do not have a lot of times.  Is there a way for this to happen automatically, I take a picture and it is automatically backed up.  I am also nervous because what happens if these photo hosting sites go away?  Can that happen?  I guess I don’t understand this process at all.  I need someone to walk me through this step by step!

Mobile presentations I have no experience with either.  I have started to make interactive flip charts through Active Inspire.  Does that count?  Other than that I have a lot to learn.  I considered myself “tech savy” and I am starting to realize I am having trouble keeping up!  I would love for my students to be able to create presentations in the classroom and I know they would love this.  It is something I will make a goal to somehow provide my students with experience with this, even if it is in a whole group setting!