I spent about half my day today adding pictures to my rolling screen saver.\u00a0 I did this because I have started asking my classes \u201cWhere is this picture from?\u201d (its location) whenever I\u2019m between powerpoints or videos or whatever else that I\u2019m showing on my laptop in class.\u00a0 In between those powerpoints and videos, the kids have been asking me about the pictures on my desktop, which change every 15 minutes, so I\u2019ve decided to make this something fun and educational that we do.\u00a0 They discover where the shot was taken, and a little something about the picture.\u00a0 The pictures are of places that I\u2019ve been my the last 20 years of travel (plus shots of my car).\u00a0 These pictures include around 15 different countries (out of the 30 that I\u2019ve been to) and maybe 15 states out of the 49 I\u2019ve been to.\u00a0 What haven\u2019t been included, up until today, were all the California (Sonoma, San Francisco, North Coast, and Monterey) and Chattanooga pictures that I\u2019ve taken over the last year of traveling.\u00a0 Now my students will have more places to guess.<\/p>\n
While doing this exercise, I have come to realize that my kids are hilarious when it comes to taking pictures.\u00a0 They make silly poses and faces and they occasionally photo-bomb a photo (even before it was popular to do).\u00a0 Their massive collection of \u201cbench tour\u201d pictures are also very amusing.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019m complete for the moment on desktop picture publishing, I have come to realize that most of the new pictures I added are of my family.\u00a0 This is a new thing.\u00a0 Although I\u2019ve traveled with my family for years, I only started taking pictures of them on a regular basis in 2010.\u00a0 Since they have become teenagers, they have become more interesting subjects to photograph for me I guess.\u00a0 It makes sense: since 2010, I have really enjoyed traveling with my kids, now that they are autonomous and interested in where I\u2019m taking them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I spent about half my day today adding pictures to my rolling screen saver.\u00a0 I did this because I have started asking my classes \u201cWhere is this picture from?\u201d (its location) whenever I\u2019m between powerpoints or videos or whatever else … Continue reading