Photo editing is a joy for me. I was fascinated by the pictures my female students had taped all over their notebooks. One day after school my girls stayed after school to give me a picnik lesson! We had a ball. I had not used it much since then. This “THING” really gave me the opportunity to play with it again. So much fun!! I was inspired today when we were sizing shirts for our upcoming field trip. Miss B and I had to take a picture of these Longhorns shirts!
Not exactly sure how to use this great photo editor in class… I turned to ask my students! They had such great ideas! They were ready to diagram the parts of a wave right then and there. Picnik allows a photo editor the ability to change all parts of the pictures and add fun text and graphics. It could be a very time consuming activity…. If my students are anything like me they will just want to keep playing with all the different options.
That picture looks awesome. I like how it looks like a line drawing on black paper. I can see the students changing pictures on it and print it out for a poster of a project, but I'm sure the students can tell you other things they want to do with it. Just tell them it has to be class related.
ReplyDeleteI love that you went to your students with suggestions for using photo editing in your class. Sometimes, I forget how much the students can help me when I'm designing plans and curriculum for them. Not to mention, they should get to be a part of that process too. I haven't used Picnik before. I've used other photo editing sites and I agree that it can be very time consuming...definitely not in a bad way though. Once I start playing around with all of the features, I can't stop!
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