Week 4 Resizing and uploading a photo

This week I have experimented with a software called Mobaphoto, a handy tool which enables you to resize photos to an appropriate size for uploading onto a website, blog etc. The image which I have resized below is a photo of my family with the original size of the photo being 4000 x 3000p. Using the Mobaphto software I have resized the photo to a more appropriate size of 640 x 480p.

All of us have come across websites at some stage where massive images take forever to load. It is very frustrating. By resizing images with something such as Mobaphto this can be easily avoided. Images can be a very useful learning tool so it is important that we use them appropriately. Teachers can use images to engage students' thinking, influence feelings, support skill development and also to support critical thinking (Fasso, 2013).

I found Mobaphoto very easy to use; it took me no more than a few minutes to download the program and resize my photos. It was very straight forward to use. I like the fact that the program doesn't automatically replace the high quality original photo and also you can save Mobaphoto onto a USB, allowing you to resize photos even if you aren't using your own personal computer!

References
Fasso, W. (2013). Digital tool 4: Images. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-courses, EDED 20491 ICTs for Learning Design. http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=115358