Image Resizing

Jordan and his new table

Here is an image of my grandson Jordan with a table that he made with his grandfather over Christmas. I used the MobaPhoto program to resize this image. While it is easy to use, it doesn't seem to install on the hard drive, so the .exe file needs to be kept on a USB device or in your downloads file for future uses.  However, it does look like it would be great for large numbers of photo uploads.

There are a whole gamut of programs and apps to resize or edit photos. I usually use Picasa and find this program useful for organising photos. It also has the added feature of being able to offer cloud storage for images, thus reducing the chance of them disappearing into the ether as can happen without backup.

Here are some other photo editing tools I have come across:

Pixia

Picasa

Photoscape

Gimp

Picnik was a really good program to use with younger children, but alas, it is no more...

Mac users have the very easy to use iPhoto and for PC users Windows 7 also has its own picture editor, but having not used it myself, I'm not sure as to its usefulness.

More important than the process to upload a photo, is the process of making sure that your students are safe online.  I asked my grandson for his permission to use his picture on my blog and he graciously allowed me. We must ensure that parental permission is given for all student photos for use in the online environment. 

Also of importance is making sure that uploaded photos are in a secure site. That is, that public access is restricted to school community.  Full names of students, identify information such as address or phone numbers should never be included, regardless of security levels.