Photo+&+Video+Sharing

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= = =What is photo sharing?= "Photo sharing is a term given to a crop of mid-2000s websites which provide means to publish a collection of digital photos online in a centralized and organized fashion. The term can be applied to online photo galleries, as well as "photoblogs", i.e. weblogs where the journal entries are prominently centered around original images." ([|Wikipedia)]

=Photo & Movie Sharing Tools=
 * [| Flickr]
 * [|PhotoBucket]
 * [|Fotolog]
 * [|Picnik] (allows you to edit photos online)
 * [| YouTube]
 * [|Teacher Tube]

=Examples=
 * [|Using Flickr as a discussion prompt]
 * [|Adding hotspots/ notes to a photo]
 * [|Another Flickr hotspot example]
 * [|Visual Storytelling with Flickr]
 * [|Fliction]
 * [|Spell with Flickr]
 * [|Using YouTube for interview techniques]
 * [|Creative Commons] - Licensing explanations for Flickr
 * [|FD's Flickr Toys]
 * [|Flickr Bits and Pieces] - Even more unbelievable Flickr tools
 * [|Third party Flickr tools]

=Classroom Examples=
 * Flikr - [|Darren Kuropatwa]
 * [|Pre-calculus 30S]
 * [|Russian Multiplication]

=**Uses**=
 * These tools provide our students (and us) with sources of legally available digital photos and videos. Physics teachers working with their students on a rollercoaster unit can bring in a photo. Just go to the Flickr site and enter the word "rollercoaster" in the search. This is what you will get: [|rollercoaster]; an authentic application for your students to work with.
 * Students can create an online album of photos and videos releated to a topic
 * [|What can we do with Flickr?] from Alan Levine
 * [|13 Photographs that Changed the World] from Neatorama

=Tutorials=
 * Searching Google for educational videos - [|Cool Cat Teacher Blog]
 * [|Creating a Flickr Account]
 * [|Uploading photo to Flickr]
 * [|Using Flickr]
 * [|Explore Flickr]
 * [|Flickr] - Tutorials on several features

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