Picnik and Glogster

I absolutely loved Picnik and I thought the presentation was great! I love taking pictures and sharing them with friends and family. The effects available on Picnik enable editing and altering of scenery, color distribution, saturation, exposure, and much more. There are even fun photo effects including blush, spray tan, mascara, and fish eye. It is definitely something that I will use personally and could see utilizing in the classroom. I think that students would love using this tool to create classroom projects and for students to share about summer vacations or 'about me' presentations. It would be a good way to expose young students to photography, a subject that was not presented to me until later in high school. Additionally, students can learn what different terms mean. They can alter a pictures distribution or saturation and actually see the effects of changing these things happen before their eyes. Using Picnik would give students an authentic experience to relate to these terms. I loved Glogster, too! I wish that this resource was available to me as a young student because it was so easy and enjoyable to use. I had fun messing around with different themes, sounds, and animations on my own personal page. I could see using this web resource in the classroom to create exciting presentations about our classroom or to create a portfolio of classmates by having each student link their pages together. This way, parents and students can access/edit the information at home via web. I obviously really enjoyed both of the web resources that were presented today in class and can definitely see myself using them in my future teaching career.