Using Picasa for student creativity

techLearning has a article entitled "How To Use Picasa for Student Creativity" which is a useful reminder of some fun things even junior school students can do using Picasa.

It suggests:

• create a slideshow
• create a timeline
• create a picture collage
• editing and adding effects to photos
• cropping photos
• making a webpage

The article is accompanied with well done screenshots, with a torn paper edge effect (those weren't done in Picasa!), though unfortunately despite being written just recently, these all show the old version of Picasa, rather than Picasa 2.5.  Some details have changed in the current version, in particular "Make a webpage" is now called "Export as HTML page...", but the activities all still apply.

Just a few days earlier, another article "Going Ga-Ga for Google" on the same site had briefly touched on a number of Google products and sites of great use to educators, mentioning Picasa, video, scholar, calendar, and spreadsheets.  I think they rather missed out an obvious other one there - Google Earth, which has immense educational opportunities.