And if you want to include text in your image Picozu has options for that too. The editor also includes tools for creating images containing multiple layers. In the Picozu editor you will find tools for adjusting color saturation and clarity. Using Picozu you can touch-up existing images or you can create new images from scratch. Picozu is a free online image editing tool. If you are a Google Apps for Education school, Aviary can be added to your suite of services to allow students to save their works within their Google Apps accounts. Aviary provides tools for creating logos, working with vectors, and creating free hand illustrations. If creating images from scratch is what you want to do, Aviary can accommodate you too.
Aviary provides tools for editing the colors, size, shadows, and other effects of existing images. I've had a few people ask me for recommendations for alternatives to Picnik, so here's a short list of alternatives to explore.Īviary offers the most complete set of image creation and editing tools of all the services on this list. The popular image editing tool Picnik was included in the list of services that they're shutting down. Last week Google announced another round of service and product closures. See the screen capture below for directions. Second, if you are logged into your Google account when you search you can quickly disable personalized results. First, don't log into your Google account before searching. If you want to opt out of personalized search display there are two ways you can do this. Here's a video about privacy in the Chrome web browser. You can also opt out of targeted ads in Gmail and Search. To stop display advertising from being targeted directly at you you can opt out of display ad networks. The second thing that you can do is to use Incognito Mode if you are using the Chrome web browser. And if you think that Google is the only Internet giant collecting data about you, you're wrong. The obvious thing is to just not use Google products, but that might not be practical for you. If it does bother you, there are a couple of simple things that you can do to limit the data that Google collects and shares about you. Now, it doesn't bother me that Google thinks I'm a geeky 35-44 year old (they've got my age wrong), but I know that it does bother some people. Google wants to be able to display the ads that they think will be most relevant to you.
Why did they do this? The answer is simple: advertising. In other words, what you do with Chrome can be shared with Gmail, Google Music, or any of the other Google services you use. The data that Google collects about your use of their services (including the Chrome web browser) is now shared across all of Google's services. If you do develop your own version of Novels on Location, ask your students to include a short book review in the placemarks that they add to the map.Īs you probably know, Google's privacy policies were recently overhauled. Or create your own classroom version of Novels on Location by creating a shared Google Map to which your students make their contributions. You could have students contribute to Novels on Location. Novels on Location is a little lean on titles right now, but it has the potential to be a good place to find your next favorite read. If you want to contribute to Novels on Location you can do so very quickly by simply entering a location then entering the title and author of your favorite book set in that location. When you visit Novels on Location you can find novels by clicking on the placemarks that you see or by using the location search bar in the upper, right corner of the site. Novels on Location is neat use of Google Maps designed to help you find fiction works according to their geographical settings.
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