Review: About Picasa
Picasa is a free software download that enables you and your students to find, edit and share all the pictures on your PCs. It also offers the Web Albums feature, which enables you to easily upload photos from your computer to the web for sharing with others.
As a teacher, you'll have to either download the software to each computer your class is using or ask your IT folks to download the software to school servers so that it's accessible to all students. Once downloaded, Picasa automatically locates all pictures on your computer and sorts them into visual albums organized by date, with folder names you'll recognize. You can drag and drop photos to arrange them into albums, and Picasa has a built-in screensaver feature for displaying your photos. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple with one-click fixes and powerful effects.
For use in your classroom, you can organize photos of your class and special events, and make each of your students a photo CD. You can also create Web Albums for students to access from home, and integrate photography into your courses by having kids take lesson-related photos, post them to their Web Albums and present oral reports.
Journalism students can keep all photos for each edition of their newspaper or magazine in one location, so they're easy to see and find. And students of all kinds can use Picasa and Picasa Web Albums to supplement their research and presentations in almost every subject they study. Or, just to organize and share their personal photos with friends and family.
As a teacher, you'll have to either download the software to each computer your class is using or ask your IT folks to download the software to school servers so that it's accessible to all students. Once downloaded, Picasa automatically locates all pictures on your computer and sorts them into visual albums organized by date, with folder names you'll recognize. You can drag and drop photos to arrange them into albums, and Picasa has a built-in screensaver feature for displaying your photos. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple with one-click fixes and powerful effects.
For use in your classroom, you can organize photos of your class and special events, and make each of your students a photo CD. You can also create Web Albums for students to access from home, and integrate photography into your courses by having kids take lesson-related photos, post them to their Web Albums and present oral reports.
Journalism students can keep all photos for each edition of their newspaper or magazine in one location, so they're easy to see and find. And students of all kinds can use Picasa and Picasa Web Albums to supplement their research and presentations in almost every subject they study. Or, just to organize and share their personal photos with friends and family.
