After downloading the photo of the Canadian Goose shown above, I decided to edit it using Picnik.com. Although I decided only to use the free version of Picnik, I was very impressed with the available options they provided for quickly making a variety of changes to the photo. Below is a screen shot of my photo at the Picnik website.
While using Picnik, I made several changes to the photo. I began by applying sharpening to the picture to help with showing contrast between the goose and its surroundings. Then I clicked on the colors tab and used the the auto colors option to automatically adjust the coloring. Since I liked the change that was made, I moved on to the exposure tab and slightly lightened the picture. Next I decided to crop the picture. I decided to crop the picture to the size of a 4 by 6 photograph so that I could easily print it. The cropping feature in Picnik is very user friendly and has several options for scaling pictures. After adjusting the pictures size using the resize tab, I went to the rotation tab and flipped the picture so that the goose faced the other way. I also experimented with rotating the picture so that goose stood more straight, but little change was necessary. After finishing editing the picture, I clicked on the Create tab and experimented with some of the available tools for adding backgrounds, text, shading, frames, etc. Finally, I went to the Save & Share tab. Here I was able to save the picture in a variety of file formats and I could choose to reduce the file size if I wanted to email or post the picture on website. To visualize the many changes that I made to this picture while using Picnik, please compare the two screenshots below.
The way that Picnik could help me as a teacher are several. First of all Picnik allows me to quickly make adjustments to any picture that I would be interested in using within a presentation or demonstration. Furthermore, Picnik makes it easy to adjust a picture's file size for posting the pictures on my website or for emailing them to my students or their parents. Finally, Picnik would allow my students to also make changes to pictures that they might be using in their own projects and assignments.
I uploaded the above photo for others to use through Picasa.com. To view and or download the picture, please follow the following link https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=106185613677470366622&target=ALBUM&id=5598832200795381457&authkey=Gv1sRgCLaz1feB1_SQpAE&feat=email
Content Standards:
Aligned to NETS-T: 1.a, 1.b, 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 3.a, 4.b
Connections to Marzano Strategies: Nonlinguistic Representations; Identifying Similarities and Differences
Connections to Marzano Strategies: Nonlinguistic Representations; Identifying Similarities and Differences
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