Flat+Stanley


 * Flat Stanley **

__**Description of Lesson**__ This lesson was to encourage creativity through learning and technology. Students were to print and color a Flat Stanley and take him on an adventure. While Stanley was on this adventure, students were to take pictures of him at different places. Once the pictures were taken, students were to make them website ready by decreasing the size and cropping the pictures as needed. After the pictures were web ready they were to be posted on a collaborative wiki highlighting Stanley's adventure with an audio recording.

Stanley went on an adventure to Pennsville, NJ for Bible Study. He got to meet many new friends and even took pictures with the Pastor. When Bible study was over he had some cake for someone's birthday. Stanley was exhausted by the time his trip was over.
 * __Description of Adventure__**

__**Reflection**__ I really enjoyed this assignment. At first I thought that it was going to be really difficult, but it ended up being really fun. I took Stanley to a Bible study in NJ. I was shocked to see all the people there that knew just what this project was about. They said that just before bible study they saw others at the park with a Stanley as well. I couldn't believe how big this project is. I learned a lot about my creativity through this project. I think that this project helped my photo taking skills with focusing on the main object and not including unneeded material in the picture. I also enjoyed working on the website with resizing my photos and cropping photos. I didn't even know that those type of websites existed for me to use.

__**Skills **__ There were different skills that I learned in doing this assignment. I first learned how to take a picture with focusing the main part of the picture. Many times before I would take pictures and get a lot of the background that I would end up cutting out of the picture in the end. I learned to focus my camera on the main object, that way I didn't have to crop out the extra background that did not need. I also learned how to use a website to resize my photo and crop my picture. In the past when I have posted pictures to a web page they were huge and not web efficient. I learned that by using a website I could resize my pictures to make them proportional to the page.

__**Link **__ **http://wuedtflatstanley.wikispaces.com/Jessica+Combs**