Picnik and Smilebox

Picknik is likely to be a 2.0 tool that I use a great deal, both personally and in the classroom. I really like to have a good photo-editing tool, and while the Windows version isn't terrible, it doesn't hold a candle to Picnik. The ability to spice up a photo can be essential for a class, especially for teachers using simple Powerpoints or other basic tools that might not be particularly stimulating visually.

Smilebox, meanwhile, isn't quite my thing. Although I might find the invitation, newsletter, and greeting templates fairly useful, I prefer to let photos speak for themselves most of the time, and I very much prefer physical representations of photo albums and scrapbooks to digital ones. I might assign my students a newsletter format presentation, for example, but I feel that I would be unlikely to use it regularly in the classroom.