Picnik

Picnik is a free online photo editing tool.  Users can upload photos and then rotate, crop, or resize the image.  Exposure, red-eye, and color can be adjusted as well.  Users can also add special effects, text, graphics, speech bubbles, and frames.  The finished image can be downloaded or emailed to another person.  Possible ideas for the classroom include writing activities, annotating current or historical images, and adding speech bubbles to pictures of important historical figures.

Related post: Six-Word Memoirs

Six-Word Memoirs

Six-word memoirs would be an interesting way for students to introduce themselves at the beginning of the school year, teachers to introduce themselves as a team for Open House, discussions about characters in novel groups, or for discussing historical figures.  There is an article by NPR about six-word memoirs with several examples.  Not all of the examples on the site are appropriate for school.  The video below includes several six-word memoirs by a high school creative writing class.



A good free online tool for editing and modifying photos is Picnik.