Journal 6: Photo Sharing (NETS III & V)

I decided to look at photo sharing because I like to share pictures as well as it would be something fun to do in a classroom. I found a few websites that were listed on the Classroom 2.0 website. The one that many use was iphoto. Iphoto lets you upload photos and create slideshows but teachers wanted something a little more that it can use to work with photos. Another one Flickr, it is a yahoo product and free. You can make albums private or public, give a guest link for select people, and you choose who can view photos. Picasa web albums are another website. Picasa is a Google product and is similar to Flickr. The web albums on Picasa are easier than Flickr. The last one I found was Picnik and it is teamed up with Flickr. It provides free photo editing, easy to use, and powerful like Photoshop, the edit button in Flickr can also be used to edit Picnik. I also found out Picnik connects to Picasa. All of these sites are compatible with Mac and windows. I believe that using any of these sites can help develop a fun and exciting activity for students. The cool thing is they can share with their family and friends too.