PhotoShop

This is the link to a photo that I edited using PhotoShop. This is a single photo of my daughters at Disneyland. I also created a small photo album of some special events from the past few years. The picture at the right is one of the photos in the album before I did any editing/decorating. This was one of the "fun" assignments and I could see myself using the PhotoShop website for both personal and professional reasons. Though it was nice to be able to edit photos to improve their quality, I actually enjoyed the decorate feature the most. I believe my students would have fun with this site as well. I could see using the site in a geometry class to edit photos of geometric examples in architecture.

Web Album

This album is a collection of photos from our family's trip back to Oklahoma to visit my husband's family. And yes, the rattlesnake is real and was killed in the front yard, the alligator is not real. I downloaded the Picassa3 software through my Google account, and found the process so easy that I created a second album of my girls in their sports activities. After downloading the software Picassa3 searched my computers for photos that already existed and imported them for me. It was then just an easy click to create a new album and drag and drop photos into the album. One more click and the album was synced to the web, a URL was created and then I hyperlinked this URL in my blog. Easy!

On-Line Graphics Part 2

In the second part of this assignment I used the data from NAEP to create two more charts using Excel. This time I used the 8th grade math scores and I used two different scales to illustrate how data can be manipulated, depending on what you want the data "to say". Continued...

On-line Graphics

As a concerned member of the statewide assessment team I have created a chart to illustrate the ranking of West Virginia students compared to the rest of the nation. The information in this chart was collected from the National Assessment of Educational Progress website. I am concerned that if West Virginia's students continue to lag behind the nation in their progress. Continued.....

Crappy Graphics

Finally an assignment I could complete in less than an hour! Crappy Graphics was a fun (if naughty) little site that was extremely easy to use and navigate. Click here to view a larger version of my line graph and to link to the Crappy Graphics website.

Image Capture - Screen Print

I used the Paint application to crop and resize images that I had captured using the Print Screen function on my computer. Click here to see the images. After capturing the images with Print Screen I opened the Paint program and pasted in the images. Click here to read the entire entry...

Desktop Graphic

My desktop graphic is a Hierarchy of the Real Numbers that was created using Word97. Click here to see the graphic. I chose to use Word97 and its SmartArt feature because it is a program that is readily accessable on most computers, and as it turns out SmartArt was extremely user friendly. Click here to read more....