After installing the software to your pc (mac users have iphoto), picasa will scan your hard drive for any images and put them together in one easy to access place. From here you can edit the photos - cropping, adjusting tone, red eye reduction etc. It even has a face recognition tool which enables you to tag all your friends and family (or students).
All this is very useful but isn't the best part. Picasa enables you to choose photos to upload to a webalbum - very simple and easy to use. Once you've uploaded the photos (which you can make private or public) you can send a link to the album - thus not clogging up people's inboxes with huge image files. You can also embed a slideshow into a website (this is what i did on my own personal website). Here's a slideshow of Batgirl's latest adventures.
Want to know more? here's the overview of features from google.
Picasa is excellent - is it OK to store pics of students offsite? Many teachers would like to use it, but there is no guidance from decision makers that we know of.
ReplyDeleteyou can make a web album private, and choose who you share with. i think mel uses it with her class. offical guidance - i don't know of anything.
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