Learning and teaching with Technology! "B posting"

I have just completed a project called “nine squares.” This project was assigned to my classmates and me for my Introduction to Technology in Education class. For this project we had to convert a story of our own into nine parts. We next had to find nine photos to symbolize the sequence of events in our stories. Once we had our nine photos we made them into squares measuring 150 by 150 pixels. We arranged these photos, out of order, on a table in Microsoft Word. We then recorded the written part of the story into nine audio files. We placed an audio file as a hyperlink matching the picture it belongs to. The final outcome and purpose to this project is for a student to click each picture then listen to the recording and lastly determine the order of the pictures to follow the story.
This was a project I completed and can use when I become a teacher as a way to incorporate technology and engage a student’s interest in a story. My story was written for upper elementary aged children, but this project could easily be made for all different age groups. I learned how to resize an image and add audio files to images on Microsoft word. A challenge that I had in my project was resizing images. I had trouble with Microsoft Office picture manager figuring out how to make each photo 150 by 150 pixels. I learned in order to use that software I needed to first crop the photo so the pixels were equal to each other even if it was 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels, then I could click on resize and type in 150 pixels by 150 pixels. Now that I know how to do this I feel it is very easy and convenient, but previously I had a lot of trouble with it. I learned that I like the trial and error approach to learning. I kept trying different ways to make each photo the right measurements and final all the trials worked.