Photo Sharing

Photo sharing tools work as a combination of things. They serve as online storage spaces for photos, with the ability to tag and organize each photo, as well as publishing your images to whomever you want. Other users who review images in these photo sharing web sites have the opportunity to leave comments for the photographer on any image that has been made available. Some photo sharing web sites offer the ability to edit your photos online, make notes, post your photos to a blog and a variety of other features. 

Each photo sharing service is different, but they all offer upload forms with the ability to browse to images on your own computer, in order to select the images that you would like to share.

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Uses of Photo Sharing

Library media specialists are finding many ways to use photo sharing sites. Here are a few:

• Archive and share bulletin boards and display ideas
• Create unique screensavers with students, activities, book covers, graphics, class projects, images related to topics of research, etc.
• Shoot and share photos of student activities, field trips, etc. for students and teachers to use in projects and presentations
• Create slideshows of school and library media center events to share on website
• Share photos for use in TV production
• Display student work, art work, activities
• Post pictures for faculty to view
• Include in morning news show
• Display in LMC's digital photo frames
• Share vacation photos appropriate to education
• Document programs we've created
• Send photos to teachers of student activities
• Send photos to art classes for mural that will be in the library media center
• Post pictures on our blog
• Order prints
• Create photo albums of school events, author visits, special programs
• Share facilities ideas and furniture arrangements with colleagues in other media centers
• Create photo books
• Create posters
• Store images for use in the annual report and presentations to administrators and parents
• Use as writing prompts (Library of Congress images on Flickr, etc.)
• Post on sites where parents can purchase images of their children at school and school activities
• Organize photos
• Use on local cable channel
• Photograph book covers, related titles and post to the web
• Create monthly photoshows of library media center activities to email to teachers with upcoming events for the next month
• Use images for newsletters
• Use for students' multimedia projects
• Use in digital storytelling
• Keep photos storage off-site, freeing hard disk and server space and making them available from any computer
• Teach students about photography, digital cameras, composition, lighting, etc.
• Teach about photo sharing, tags, searching for images, copyright, creative commons licensing
• Post a photo of the day
• Promote reading programs
• Locate and print photos to be used in displays or on bulletin boards
• Document library conferences and workshops attended
• Use as a fund raising activity. Parents and students can order prints
• Create calendars, cards, gifts with unique library media center photos

by: wawa :)