April 10th (Day 2)

 Today we learned so many interesting things to be aware of when teaching. I really enjoyed the activity that we did at the beginning of class with the worksheets, that had different sets of directions. I was not really sure why we were doing the activity at first, but then when Denvi had people read their directions I realized that there were two different sets that people had received; one said to picture the sentences that were going to be read aloud to us, and the other one said to imagine how hard it would be to say these sentences. I thought it was really interesting that the majority of people who tried to picture the sentences did better in the question-and-answer portion of the activity than the majority of people with the other set of directions. I never realized how big an impact pictures had on how well students absorbed information. I also feel like that was a great activity to have us do before we started learning about Photoshop. I never realized how easily magazines could Photoshop pictures and give consumers false information. After doing our activity at the beginning of class I realized how important it was to make sure that whatever images I present to my students in class are accurate and don't present them with misinformation. I also really enjoyed what we started working on in Photoshop. I was very nervous to start working with the application, because I'd never used it before, but after all our instruction and time to figure out how things worked, I really enjoyed working with the photos and trying to put them together in a plausible way. Being able to use Photoshop seems like a good skill for any teacher, but I think I'd be able to utilize that tool especially well in a kindergarten classroom due to the fact that pictures are such an effective way to get information across to young students in a simple way.