Using Images

Original Image: "Unnamed"
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by: Patrick
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If a student had come to be needing images for a presentation, I would have told her to just go to Google.com, click on "images", and then type in what she was looking for. If she asked me how to give the creator credit, I honestly would have told her not to worry about that. That is what I WOULD have done, up until this assignment. I never realized that images should be cited when you use them for projects, presentations, etc. However, it makes sense because it is just like using a quote or summarizing information from a source. Now I would recommend to the student to use Creative Commons. She could easily find pictures on this website. Then I would tell her that she needs to include the name of the picture, the author, the website she found the picture, as well as the rights that the author has. I have found that using Creative Commons, as well as Flickr, it can be difficult to find out the author's exact name, or a name for the image. I would just instruct the student to say that the author is "unknown" or the image is "unnamed".

Making Voice Threads

I created a Voice Thread that showed a few examples of how Fibonacci numbers appear in nature. This is a Voice Thread that I would use as a teacher to introduce my students to this idea. I was actually surprised at how easy this was! I just simply found some pictures of flowers and pinecones that demonstrate how the Fibonacci numbers appear in nature. Then I added a recording that explained the pictures and what is important about them. For a couple of the pictures, I added a typed note as well for things that were easier to read than to hear.

I think that Voice Threads would be good to use in a launch portion of a lesson plan. I think it is a way to get students excited about material and to show how material is relevant. As a math teacher, I think I would use Voice Threads to show how the content being learned is relevant to real world situations. I think when students know that the material they are learning is useful, they are more motivated to learn it. I also think that that Voice Threads would be useful in geometry to show and compare different three-dimensional and two-dimensional figures. The recording could be used to explain different properties of these figures, as well as how to calculate their area, volume, perimeter, etc.

Fibonacci Numbers in Nature