Picnik
Picnik is a photo editing tool that allows you to rotate, crop and resize images as well as fix the exposure, color and red-eye. A fun application, students can add special effects, text, shapes (including voice bubbles) and fun frames.
Flickr
Flickr is a photo sharing website where you can share your pictures and edit them for others to see. In old school terms, it is the digital version of scrapbooking. Yes, Flickr is the cyber worlds answer to the photo album.
Handy hint:
Within Flickr, you can add sets or groups of pictures. Click organise and create, then some little tabs will appear, click sets and then create a new set. Then you will see allyour pictures, all you do then is click and drag them
Happy digital scrapbooking
As an application within a secondary school context, students could use it as a collaborating tool. While undertaking a unit in History say, students could take still photos of artifacts relating to event, stills could be taken from a trip to the museum or local historical society, newspaper articles could be linked along with other relevant items. Essentially, the students build a scrapbook of the event.
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