I first went to Cloud Canvas and clicked on the red LAUNCH button. But it was stubborn and wouldn't launch. I even created an account to use it, thinking that might be the problem. But it still wouldn't launch! Too frustrating.
I then went to Splashup. I tried loading a picture from Facebook but it wouldn't work. I went to my desktop and found a few pictures to play with. Splashup reminded me of a photo editor (which I can't remember the name of it for the life of me!) I used when my colleague "Hoovie" and I created a Power Point presentation. I wish I had a printed manual with examples so that I could utilize the full power of this tool, as I did not know what some of the special effects meant. I could definitely use some of the enhancement tools to improve the photo quality of my digital pictures I took of my students doing various cultural activities.
I then downloaded Picasa. It took more than 20 minutes for it to load and organize all my pictures and videos from my computer! I spent over TWO HOURS revisiting the past. It had located photos and videos that I had completely forgotten about. Amazing! This tool organizes everything for you and shows you duplicates (and those duplicates are so easy to delete). This tool will be useful because NOW I can finally locate all those those student pictures I've accumulated over the last two decades. In fact, I found photos of Mexico that students had given me copies of that I showed in class over five years ago. Hoovie, I can't wait for you to see some of these pictures!
My overall choice is Picasa. I can't wait to show these "lost" photos of cultural projects to my students! :-)
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