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PicLens from Cool Iris

June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I usually don’t write about new tools that much, but this one is so cool I just had to share.

At our provincial year-end mentor meetings last week we had some time where individuals could share new tools and tricks. I tooks the opportunity to share Twitter – I’ll write more on that at some point – but one of the other mentors (can’t remember who right now) shared PicLens, a browser add-on from Cool Iris.

The add-on (I have only tried it on Firefox on my Mac, but it apparently works well on MSE and Safari on both platforms) allows a unique way to preview, search and view pictures from the web. The video says it all.

I had the opportunity today to try it on a SMARTBoard…wow! This has tremendous potential for collaborative sharing (it’ll work in flickr and photobucket) of class photosets and other web resources…and it’s visual appeal is attractive.

Oh yeah…like so much of the other cool stuff out there, it’s FREE!

tags: technology, education, whipple, piclens

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