Scavenger Hunt of LINES!

Well, this week was a fun outdoor activity! The activity consisted of a scavenger hunt (regarding my specific subject area of art) where several teammates and I had to search for various types of line, such as wavy line or curved line.  We searched right outside the building, and could find everything without a problem! Lines are everywhere. Also, what was even better, was the fact that we could use our iPhones to capture photographs! No camera was required nor was a cord required! iPhone is great technology in the way that one can easily upload photographs or videos to a computer through the Dropbox App.  Now, in order to apply this use of Dropbox to the classroom through the App, I would use iPads instead of iPhone becauase iPads would allow for more classroom management and control over what activities are used in the iPad (for example, you can discourage calls or iMessage better with the iPad).  They would be more appropiate for the classroom. After uploading photos to the computer, anything is possible with them! The students can create powerpoints, glogs, edit photos through Pixlr, or even upload to Blogs or Websites! All the possibilities with photographs can highly encourage and motivate students to learn in new ways other than traditional lecture. In addition to use of the Dropbox and photo editing tools, the scavenger hunt itself is a great way to get the class active and engaging in learning outside the classroom.