Thursday, July 24, 2008
Journal #5: Photo Sharing
Photo Sharing is best known as the publishing of your photos or the transferring of your digital photos. You can share your photos with others publicly or privately. There are many applications and websites that allow this to occur. An example of this is a free website called Animoto. It takes your uploaded pictures and creates a slide-show that looks very professional. One of the cool things about this site is that you can upload your own music to use or choose from the options provided from the website. The great thing about Animoto is that they provide an offer for educators. By emailing them and telling them you are an educator, you will get a classroom code that gives you and each of your students free use for a whole year. The videos made can be put into full screen so that you can use it for a classroom presentation. Student videos can be downloaded to your desktop. Some amazing creative projects can come out of Animoto. If you are inactive for about a month, your video does get taken down. Also, you need to pay to create full length slide shows. If you don't, you only get about a 30 second time slot. Animoto asks of educators to keep them updated and posted regarding specific ways you use it in your classroom. Their goal is to create a collection of great technology uses for others to identify with. This is a great educational source for photo sharing and it is completely free for educators and their students!
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I think the idea of photo sharing and creating slide shows are great in an educational setting, especially for all of us visual learners. It's too bad though, that Animoto will take down your videos after a period of inacty as that you need to pay in order to create full length slide shows. I'm sure however that one can work around that using other web based photo sharing sites.
Photo sharing would be a useful, informative, and exciting tool to bring to the classroom. I really liked how it helped out teachers by having the program available for free use for the entire year. I would definitely use it in my classroom, especially the idea of the videos for a classroom presentation to explain a lecture or a project.
Photosharing seems like such a good idea. I did mine on social networking and they were saying that most schools block these types of sites. Since it could be really useful, I wonder if schools will eventually allow access to this.
Photo sharing is something I would definitely use in my classroom, and it could be incorporated into a lot of different projects. I think it's a great way to get students interested in a subject and involved in using technology.
I found the same Animoto site and loved it. I would be excited to get set up with a school in another country and do some photo sharing and bloging. I love that students have so many options when it comes to technology. I think we just have to be careful and make sure they submerge themselves in the real world too not just a virtual one.
I think that photo sharing is a great resource to bring into the classroom. Before this class I did not realize that there were many photo sharing sites. The only one I really knew about was Photobucket but I still don't even know how to use it. It sounds like Animoto would be a great addition in any classroom.
Photo sharing is such an amazing idea and very helpful when needing to send something to someone who isnt close by. It would be a fun tool in the classroom as well!
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