Overview & Self Guided Lesson - Picasa & Photography in the Classroom

From Picasa in the Classroom - What is it?

Picasa is a free application that lets students and teachers organize, edit and share photographs (it's just for the PC - Mac Users you have iPhoto already installed on your machine). Visual images can augment many cucurricular projects and lessons.

Images are powerful additions to most lessons. To organize your images (or to have students organize images for projects & presentations) try one of these two sites:

Picasa (PC): http://picasa.google.com/

iPhoto (Mac): http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/

Learn how to use Picasa with students, with this quick start guide.

Take a tour of Picasa and preview its features.

Getting Started with Picasa

Picasa Self Paced Training Session:

Lesson Ideas:

- Student created Slideshow using Picasa
- Document a process by taking pictures in class and adding them to a "Lab Manual," "Technical Document" or "How to List."
- Integrate Picasa photos into other applications, including Picasa Web Albums - Slideshow, PowerPoint, VoiceThread, Animoto, RockYou or Photo Story.