Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Picnik
Picnik is an online photo editing service. Many of Picnik's basic photo editing tools are free to use however, a premium version of Picnik is available at a cost which includes additional photo editing features (1).
Using the basic version I had a very enjoyable and enlightening experience with the software. Not knowing that the technology existed I will definitely use it again in the future when I need to crop, frame, or add some special effects to my images as I have done in the above photo I obtained off the Flickr website originally.
In learning contexts, Picnik offers students a great tool for enhancing the visual appeal of images for class projects. Moreover, it is a great way of reducing the physical size of images so that they display quickly and are the right size for a page.
References
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnik
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How might students react to the Picnik software? Do you think that they will waste more time "playing around" with this software than the benefits they achieve by using it?
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Good question Lyneale,
ReplyDeleteI personally don't think that it is wasting time to play around and enhance the images you are wanting to use. Some people make a good living doing just that. However in the classroom we are under imposed time constraints.
I guess if students were doing a task that involved creating a poster than it would be an assessable element and so justifiable but I guess you couldn't use it all the time, at least not in the classroom. The real hope is that once you expose the students to the technology that they will want to continue to use it in their own time.
Hi Lyneale
ReplyDeleteGreat question. Students may waste a lot of time on Picnik, but I'm sure that the teacher would need to keep a close eye on the students to keep them on task.
Sharon makes a great point that by giving the students the opportunity to use Picnik that they may use it in their own time to complete assignments or task.
Till next time
Donna