Picfull

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1. Description: This web site is a free online photo editing web site.

2.SWOT Strengths: The strengths of this web site is that it is free, easy to use, you can use your own pictures, and can share it immediately after you save it. It literally takes seconds to do. Students can learn a lot about editing photos with things like contrast, color, temperature, hues, etc...

Weaknesses: The web site is limited in its ability to edit things. It doesn't crop or fix red-eye. All it does is mostly change the color of the photo.

Opportunities: I could see teachers using this as an opportunity to integrate art into any subject. It gives students a chance to take a picture and interpret it the way they want to and share it with the class. They could be pictures of the content they are learning in class, or even pictures of themselves that they want to edit on their free time.

Threats: The threats that I saw could be students taking pictures from the internet and editing them without permission from the original owner. The teacher would have to supervise this activity to make sure students know how to either give credit to the original author or to find pictures that are free and usable for anyone to use on the internet. The second threat I saw with this web site are the sharing options. After you edit your picture and save it, the web site gives you three options, to share it through e-mail, through facebook, or through twitter. Depending on your classroom and the specific context, you might not be wanting your students to be posting pictures on twitter or facebook, or emailing them to people that should not have a copy of the picture. If it was a picture of a student in the class, it would be imperitive to protect the privacy and rights of that student. Teachers who use this in their classroom would probably want to make sure students use this site with discretion, and lay down the rules before letting them use it. 3. Opportunities for the classroom

I could see teachers using this site for a variety of reasons. I would probably use this web site in my classroom to integrate art into the curriculum. It would allow students to learn about the characteristics about art while combining it with another subject. For example, if we were doing a social studies lesson on the English settlers moving to America and forming the colonies, I might choose a close up picture of a sad Native American to edit to express how they felt during this time period. I might edit the photo to make it black and white with extra contrast on it to make it dramatic. Then I could print it out and share it with the class. I would ask the students thought-provoking questions about the picture to let them use their knowledge to describe what was going on in the picture or to use what they know about why the person in the picture might look like that. This is just one example of many things you could use Pic Full for.