Welcome to my page!

My name is Christine Hahn and I am a wearer of many hats. I am a new Mom, a soon to be wife,and a pursuer of education just trying to find her way in this world. I love to travel as much as possible, to eat deliciously fattening foods, spend time with my family (sometimes!), make my son laugh until he can hardly stand it, and sky dive in gorgeous places.

I have created this blog as an assignment for a college course I am taking. I am doing this in effort to learn how to better understand the technology that is available to us and to be an effective teacher for my future students. I hope to one day be teaching in an elementary school setting, somewhere between kindergarten and third grade. I have a love for computers but very minimal experience working with blogs, html, etc. I hope that through this class I will gain a better understanding of how this all works so that I can eventually teach it to someone else.. clearly! :)

Happy trails!



Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Tux Paint

This is a really great website for kiddos to use at home or even in the classroom. By downloading the software onto your computer, the kids have a free drawing board that they can decorate again and again. It has all sorts of features such as stamps, drawing, painting, and various texts. Even calligraphy! Another fun thing about this software is that with every thing you do, whether it is erasing something you drew, stamping a picture, or even changing the color you are using, a fun noise goes along with it! Who wouldn't love that?? You can also save your art that you have created or print it off and hang it on your fridge. I found it to be a nice relaxation tool when I stressed out from a long day. It was also a fun way of addressing technology homework!

Also, for my new technological toy that I played with this past week it was something I have always had but never used! My webcam! I have never really used my webcam, at least not for recording videos, so for our Glogster assignment I decided to create an audio recording for my poster. The video is below, just don't make fun of my twitchy eyes!!

I also learned through utilizing my webcam that it does all sorts of other fun things!



I can even be Obama!
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5 comments:

  1. Brianna PhillipsJune 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM

    OH MY GOSH! your videos are hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing. Jasen couldn't see the videos, could only here them, and he was like, Is that person okay? What are they doing! lol! The Obama one is so funny. love the eyebrow raises!

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  2. May XiongJune 22, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    Christine,
    you have an amazing blog! amazing! I love your videos. They were funny. You have inspired me to play with my webcam.

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  3. SarahJune 25, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    Everyone keeps talking about Tux paint. I think I may need to check it out for myself. I had the same experience with my webcam too! I had no idea that I could do such cool stuff with it. I love to use it when I am talking with friends on Skype. It would be interesting to come up with ways to use it in the classroom too.

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  4. ArielJune 26, 2011 at 4:01 PM

    Christine, I love the videos! Your blog is always entertaining. :D Now I am eager to play around with my webcam, I had no idea that you could do so much with it. It would be interesting to incorporate a webcam lesson into the classroom.

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  5. ShengJune 27, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    I have to agree with Ariel, your blog is always is entertaining. I too think tux paint is really a great website for being creative.

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