Picnik-Web+2.0

  media type="youtube" key="ZpaFKFq49OI" height="315" width="420"   Picnik.com is a photo-editing web 2.0 tool that is used to enhance pictures in many ways. On [|www.picnik.com], you are capable of apply tons of special effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and much more. Picnik was launched in 2007 and has expanded widely in the past few years. It is even used through social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. Picnik also gives users the ability to embed pictures in Flickr, Picasa, Yahoo! Mail, and several more. Picnik is fast and easy to use too!       Picnik can be used educationally in many ways. There are ways to set up Picnik on teachers Smart Boards and connect them to power points to enhance special effects. Also, students can use this for projects. Special effects can be added to create many different ideas. If a student wants a “moving effect” he can add that by using Picnik. In Health Science, Picnik can be useful when labeling diagrams. If a picture needed to be labeled, and it was uploaded to Microsoft Word, it would be much more difficult to do on Microsoft Word than it would be to just upload it to [|www.picnik.com], and label away!