picturetrail.com

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My picturetrail.com slideshow features popular authors.

Description: PictureTrail allows the user to participate in photo sharing, cool photo slideshows, and image hosting. It claims to have the biggest slideshow selection on the web. The user can browse slideshows or create their own for any reason. It also allows the user to choose from many differents slideshow types, layouts, backgrounds, etc.

Pros and Cons: Pros of Picture Trail are the following: 1. You may create any type of slideshow you want. 2. It is fun to use. 3. It is visually appealing 4. There are many layouts to choose from. 5. You can pull pictures from many different sources.

Cons of Picture Trail are the following: 1. If the Internet is down, you will not be able to use Picture Trail. 2. It can be very time-consuming. 3. It seemed to take too long to load some slideshows.

Possible Classroom Uses: This tool seems to have endless possibilites. For science, students could make a slideshow about photosynthesis, the life cycle, water cycle, planets, scientific method, etc. For geography, students could create slideshows about the different continents and oceans, religions, states, etc. For language arts, students could compare books to movies, create a slideshow telling the story of their lives, examples of parts of speech, sequences of events, etc. For math, students could give examples of the order of operations, geometric figures, properties, formulas, etc.