What amazes me is that some of these programs can run quickly right in your browser.

Sumo Paint, Pixlr Editor and Aviary Phoenix each look like promising tools for simple (and in some cases not-so-simple) image editing.

Washington's Secrets

Here’s a great idea from Tom over at Bionic Teaching:

Basically, you research a historical hero, one of those unimpeachable people students have been forced to memorize facts about since kindergarten. Only this time you’re researching the figure as if you were a reporter for a semi-sleazy tabloid. Let’s keep it semi-sleazy so there’s a core of fact to anything reported.

I think this could work in several subject areas. I personally would like to see glossy covers with Newton, Einstein or Curie. You could also have students write exposés for famous fictional characters.

Don’t like the tabloids? Try wanted posters instead.

Even better– You can let others edit your Tabblo. A teacher could create a Tabblo with photos from a field trip. All the students could contribute making this a truly collaborative project. It’s like a wiki for photos!

Give it a try.

This site uses AJAX to do some basic image edits like crop, rotate, resize and many more.