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Today we worked in groups to create a slideshow of pictures to tell a story. My group (Myosook, Colleen, and Aggie) chose to do "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears". And it just so happened that Myosook had puppets for the story. :D
To create the backgrounds for our pictures, we used Powerpoint and added clip art for the house, porridge, chairs, etc. We also added speech bubbles to move the story along.
We uploaded all of our pictures to Slide to create a slideshow presentation. Then we posted our slideshow to our blogs.
I have previously used Slide to create slideshows of pictures and I found the program very easy to use. I also learned how to post the slideshow directly to my blog which is very convenient. There are also a lot of ways to customize your slideshow and post it to a variety of networking sites.
I would most definitely use this program in my classroom. I would let my students use the program to do presentations that involve pictures. And slideshows can also be created for special events like assembly, graduation, or PTSA nights. I think anything that lets kids use the computer is a great motivator for them to do their work.
As for myself, I am going to use Slide for my blog for my ED 471 Practicum. ;D