Spanish

Kelly Bordner

For my learning project, I chose to take pictures around my house with my Kodak EasyShare DX4900. My son is taking Spanish in school for the first time this year. He has been learning basic nouns like the months, body parts, and objects. That gave me the idea to use pictures of items around the house to create a PowerPoint that teaches Spanish vocabulary. My PowerPoint can be accessed at https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/kbordner/Spanish.ppt. I created each slide to show the picture of the item with the English word. Then when the user clicks on the slide, the Spanish word comes in. By creating the slide show this way, it would be a good tool for not only teaching vocabulary, but also for review. I do think it would be even better with sound, someone actually pronouncing the Spanish words. Unfortunately I am not that advanced in my skills yet, but hopefully before too long I will be and can go back and add in the sound.

I did use the Gimp software to crop several of my photos to get rid of some background stuff. The more I use Gimp, I am getting the hang of it.