It has some really fun settings and I could spend hours just fiddling and making changes to photos, but it doesn't take hours - its fast and fun! It has some really great options such as the pix-elated areas caption. This editing option could be used for any documentation of photos of students as you could pix-elate the students faces for students safety. It could also be used for a mystery guest unit, a wanted poster or editing photos to put on your class web-page.
The image I have uploaded could be used in the classroom as:
1. Creative writing stimulus
2. A demonstration at the beginning of a Picnik tutorial
3. A demonstration for photography lessons, focusing on landscape shots.
4. Image for a real life/problem solving maths equation ("If a farmer harvests 1 tonne of wheat per acre and owns 12,000 acres how much wheat will he harvest in total?")
5. An investigation or identifying cloud types for science.
This is an really useful program to use in and out of the classroom. Its safe to say I will definitely use it again in the future!
I have spent considerable time browsing through the collection of images on flickr. and have discovered that a picture really does say a thousand words. Thanks to the creative commons a selection of works (visual and auditory) are available to others to share and build upon legally. The Creative Common License allows creators to specify which rights they reserve and allows users to edit and use the data within these rights. This license provides creators and users with the most up-to-date and useful information possible (Creative Commons, http://www.creativecommons.org.au/version3). There is an infinite number of images, with a Creative Common License, which could be used in the classroom to enhance students learning journeys.
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