You have taken lots of wonderful digital pictures of your students and plan to take more as the year progresses. What can you do with those pictures other than print them? (Remember, printing photographs can take 4 times as much toner as printing words, and we just don’t have the budgets to continue buying toner as often as we might like to.)

So, how can you share those pictures with your students and their families if you don’t print them out? One of the easiest ways to share photos is by creating a slideshow in either MaxShow or PowerPoint and simply inserting a picture on each slide. If you’re feeling a bit more creative, put more than one picture on a slide, rotate pictures, add text, add clipart, and just have fun! You could also let your students each create their own slide and then combine them all into one slideshow. If you’d like to give that a try, I’ll be more than happy to help you out.

A slideshow for PTA Back to School Night is a great way for parents to “meet” your class. You could have the show running on your computer(s) as they are entering the classroom, or project it using your TV or LCD projector if you have one in your room.

There are several photo sharing sites on the internet that I’ll tell you more about in my next post. Let me know when you’re ready to create that PowerPoint from all of your great pictures!