Picnik is a Picnic

When Anne Buckle and I began our Picnik endeavors, I was skeptical.  I thought, "Someone misspelled picnic."  I had no idea that Picnik would be a...well, picnic to do.  It is basically a tool that creates online photo albums that you can edit.  Editing can be simple and useful, or it can be hilarious.  Useful/normal editing includes things like erasing red-eye and cropping, but the hysterical portions add neat frames or strange facial expressions applicable to photos.

The website is extremely usable and easy to navigate.  It is efficient and quick, and it even has cute phrases to indicate "please wait," except that instead, its message is something like, "growing grass."  It is free, which is a great thing for the low-budgets implemented in schools during this difficult economic time.  I wished that there were more ways to edit photos, but you have to pay for those extra applications (unfortunately.)

I intend to use this website to aide parents in seeing what their child does in class and on field trips by displaying pictures for them on-line.  I can also use the website for class activities, especially in creative slide shows.