Travel Journal

• Take a picture of the kids in your class with the digital cameras. Have the kids wave or lean against the wall or sit on the floor.

• Save each child’s picture to their H drive.• IN THE LAB• Open ImageBlender. Open the picture from the H drive.• Use the lasso tool to trace all the way around the body of

the person in the picture. • Click on Image > Erase Background.• Have the kids use the eraser to get the areas they

missed with the lasso.• Finally, save this image as a GIF. (Choose from the drop

down.) Make sure Save white as transparent is selected. Save this file back to the H drive with a DIFFERENT file name.

Travel Journal

• Have students research where they want to go on their “vacation”. Historical sights are always good.

• Search on Ask.com or the Library Media Archive for images of these places. Avoid pictures that already have people in them.

• Save these pictures to their H drive.• Open PowerPoint.• Right click on EACH slide. Choose background > drop

down > images and select an image to serve as the background. Choose apply.

• Insert Picture from File. Select the image of themselves.• Position themselves realistically on the photograph.

Travel Journal

• Have students use a blank US map and create a map of their travels. This is done in ImageBlender. Insert this in the PowerPoint show.

• Create a trip itinerary. This is done on a slide in PowerPoint.

Itinerary

• May 1-travel from Houston to Los Angeles. Visit Disney Land.

• May 6-Travel from LA to Grand Canyon near Phoenix, AZ

• May 10-Travel from Grand Canyon to Wall, SD to see Wall Drug.

• May 12- Travel from Wall, SD to ……