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=Photo sharing=

this information is copied straight from Wikipedia. It is a clear and precise description of photos sharing. I had not heard of this at all!!!
[|] The first photo sharing sites originated during the mid to late 1990s primarily from service providing online ordering of prints (photo-finishing), but many more came into being during the mid-2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralised access to a user's photos, and in some cases video clips too. This has resulted in different approaches to revenue generation and functionality amongst providers. Whilst photoblogs tend only to display a chronological view of user-selected medium-sized photos, most photo sharing sites provide multiple views (such as [|thumbnails], and [|slideshows]), the ability to classify photos into albums as well as add annotations (such as captions or [|"tags"]) and comments. Some photo sharing sites provide complete online organisation tools equivalent to desktop [|photo-management] applications. Desktop photo-management applications may include their own photo-sharing features or integration with sites for uploading images to them. There are also desktop applications whose sole function is sharing photos, generally using [|peer-to-peer] networking. Basic photo sharing functionality can be found in applications that allow you to email photos, for example by dragging and dropping them into pre-designed [|templates]. Photo sharing is not confined to the web and personal computers but is also possible from portable devices such as [|cameraphones], using applications that can automatically transfer photos as you take them, to photo sharing sites and photoblogs, either directly or via [|MMS]. Some cameras now come equipped with [|wireless networking] and similar sharing functionality themselves.
 * Photo sharing** is the [|publishing] or transfer of a user's [|digital photos] online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both [|websites] and [|applications] that facilitate the [|upload] and display of images. The term can also be loosely applied to the use of online photo galleries that are setup and managed by individual users, including [|photoblogs].

**Educational uses of photo and video sharing.**
If you visit the tki site you will see some good examples of how a range of technology has been used to compile online sites http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/online_proj/ Living Heritage Living Heritage aims to capture and preserve New Zealand’s heritage online by creating a “living” database of original heritage resources. Schools are encouraged to discover a heritage treasure in their community, research it, and create a website resource about it in either English or Māori. Schools can use self-publishing software to record their work as a digital resource. No special design or technical skills are required. These resources will be hosted on the Living Heritage website, creating a treasure-trove of information reflecting the unique identities of our people and places. http://www.livingheritage.org.nz

GlobalNet GlobalNet is a communications network involving individuals, schools, and community groups. It aims to develop greater awareness among children of all cultures of the issues facing them in the lives they lead. It promotes sharing of ideas on these issues and empowers children in the use of digital technologies for communicating and expressing their ideas. The site is designed to involve children and young people aged 10 to 16 years. http://www.globalnet.org.nz/

**The wwwtools site**
It is an excellent teachers’ resource with explanations of digital photography and examples of use. http://wwwtools/magazines.cfm?rid=283 Visual Learning. Graeme Daniel Though using digital photography in education is generally more fun than reflecting on the pedagogical basis for doing so, here are some theoretical considerations which may be useful in the framing of submissions for expenditure on courses and equipment: • Many approaches to categorising learning styles are listed at Bradford Colleges Action Learning for Lifelong Professional Development; in the Accelerated Learning section, 3 Modes of Learning are identified in terms of how the brain stores and processes information and how the environment we learn in affects this. This gives rise to the categorisation of students as being predominantly Visual, Auditory, or Kinaesthetic learners. Visual learners tend to process information better when it is presented in graphic form. • According to How Your Learning Style Affects Your Use of Mnemonics (Mind Tools), about 65% of people are visual learners; by way of comparison, 30% are auditory learners, and only 5% are basically kinaesthetic learners. • S. Jhoanna Robledo begins at the beginning in Assessing Your Child: the Visual Learner, Preschool to Kindergarten, considering characteristics of the visual learner (2 subtypes: picture and print); benefits of identifying learning styles; and helping the visual child excel. • Notes on Visual Learning at Cuyamaca College offers practical information about visual learners, and suggests Visual Learner Strategies.

The Digital Camera in Education by Drs. Terence and Catherine Cavanaugh is a beautiful and comprehensive online work - if you dont have time for anything else, make this priority viewing. In Educational Uses (Electricteacher.com), Cathy Chamberlain presents many ways of using both still and moving imagery to enhance learning outcomes. Digital cameras are excellent tools for enhancing writing and for reading activities. Images can be used as a focus for the writing or to become a reflection of the reading material. .
 * Create a classroom history, scrapbook, or include the images as part of a student's journal.
 * Create illustrations of student writing.
 * Create a series of images to depict the events that occurred in a novel that was read
 * Create an associated series of images with writing to document a sequence of events or steps.
 * Use images as a visual support to teach vocabulary.
 * Consider developing images to teach:
 * Synonyms
 * Antonyms
 * Homonyms
 * Homophones
 * Create images to represent the parts of speech
 * Use digital images to have students create their own book covers for famous literature

Other Uses
•Dioramas • Pop-up card reports • Angle Photos • Digital Storytelling • Trading Cards

Sharing Online Video Resources
http://wwwtools/m/8285.cfm?rid=8285&cuID=76&vID=17

"...video production in the classroom enables the development of media literacy, higher order thinking skills, project based learning experiences, real world relevancy experiences, and a deeper connection to the curriculum being explored. But while all this is essential, it represents only half of the potential of using video in the classroom.

The other half...is the experience that students receive in communicating their own original ideas to others, and in listening to others communicate their ideas to them. It's that speaking and listening thing." - Nikos Theodosakis / via Digital Video in Education (Grossmont Union High School District, 2002)

A current dominant theme is the ongoing convergence of the Internet and television - among numerous symptoms, take for example this year's six-fold growth of YouTube, cited by Jack Schofield in Motionbox to Beat YouTube? (Technology Blog: April 03, 2006). Considering the many-faceted roles of video in education, both in the delivery of instruction and as an element of curriculum in its own right, this trend is bound to have major impacts in educational practice. In this edition of WWWTools for Education, we look at the many ways now opening up to enable educators and students to share video resources online, present practices using the new tools as they become available, and thoughts on what the future may hold.

Adobe is very helpful.
The Adobe Education site has lots of useful ideas for teachers, students, and parents, and access to free or trial versions of software. Sections are • Using Digital Cameras in the Curriculum (Alan and Hannah Epstein / Watertown Public Schools) lists resource sites under theses headings: Camera Tutorials; Digital Photography and Education; Digital Cameras and Photography; and Free Digital Pictures. More on Classroom Applications. • In Digitizing the Primary Classroom (TechLEARNING: April 01, 2001), VaReane Heese shares creative classroom strategies involving digital cameras, scanners and webcams. These are all practical applications worth considering for use with young students. • The Oswego City School Districts inservice program has developed a page on Visual Learning with Inspiration and Kidspiration to promote the use of graphic concept maps - link to examples. Could digital photography play a role here? • The Brunswick School Department has a site devoted to Digital Cameras in the Classroom. Sections are: Purchase and Tips; Student Assessment (digital photography in electronic portfolios); Digital Tours; and most especially, Teacher To Teacher (14 Ideas from teachers worldwide for classroom applications). The Digital Camera Links are also worth exploring. • 1001 Uses for a Digital Camera (Pegasus: University of Central Florida) has been set up to enable educators to share applications for digital cameras; a form is provided for submitting lesson ideas. Categories used so far are: Schoolwide; Mathematics; Foreign Language; Science; English; Social Studies; Art. • In Cameras for Classroom Projects, Charlotte Anderson presents a beginners approach, and fits classroom use of digital photography to ISTE technology standards. The linked handout is useful for professional inservice training. • Other interesting sites include:
 * 1) the Adobe Digital Kids Club features: an Introduction to Digital Photography; a Going Digital section outlining the practicalities of image capture, editing and organising, printing and sharing; Digital Photo Tips; Lessons and Activities - art, field trips, photography; Digital Imaging Products - Photoshop Elements 2.0, Album 2.0; Product Training - online tutorials, training tips; Photo Gallery - student work; Showcases - examples of student projects; Bios and Interviews - professional photographers.
 * 2) Curriculum - free lessons, course guides, and projects that incorporate Adobe tools.
 * 3) Training for Educators - free online courses, discounted training resources.
 * 4) Showcases and Spotlights - competitions and awards; examples of applications in K-12 and Higher Education coursework.
 * 5) Education Products - overview of Adobe software. # Events of Interest to Educators.
 * 6) Adobe Education Community - free subscription to Adobe Education News; read the current issue online.
 * 7) Adobe Studio - design resources for Web, print, digital imaging, and digital video; tips and tutorials; free downloads; registration required.
 * 8) Download Free Software - tryouts of Adobe software.
 * 1) Rons Digital Photography (Ron Kubota) - E-School Conference 2001 (presentation on Digital Photography

Eschoolnews Articles
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showstory.cfm?ArticleID=6981 Warren Township harnesses digital video to transform instruction By Brian Woods April 1, 2007—The old "one-size-fits-all" adage certainly does not apply to teaching students with diverse learning styles. Some students learn best via written assignments, while other pupils require visuals to grasp the Big Bang theory or other abstract principles. A truly active learning environment requires the ability to present information instantaneously, and in multiple formats, to support sustained achievement for all students. Against this backdrop, the 15-school Metropolitan School District of Warren Township in the Indianapolis area is using digital video to provide teachers with on-demand visual content to expand lesson plans, deliver additional context to breaking world news, and offer distance-education opportunities to students. Over the last several years, we have deployed extensive video production and broadcast systems for our more than 12,000 students--enabled in part by a $6 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a private philanthropic foundation. Every school has a media center and a closed-circuit television network to broadcast morning announcements and other programming to all classrooms. To make the systems even more useful, we also employ live video broadcasting throughout several buildings. To eliminate the need for manually transporting videos from school to school, we've digitized our approximately 2,000-title video library. Our original library, which consisted mainly of VHS tapes, was cumbersome for both administrators and teachers, requiring us to devote significant resources to delivering, retrieving, and cataloging the different titles. The tape-based content also limited teachers' selection to available videos at on-site AV libraries--a challenge that created scheduling issues for teachers, many of whom had trouble incorporating relevant video into tightly-scheduled lesson plans. With our digital library, every district school now has on-demand access to video content, providing students with timely, relevant programming. Digital video has the potential to make a profound classroom impact by providing students with a front-row seat for underwater explorations or enabling real-time collaboration with students across the globe. By aligning digital video with educational requirements and existing technology, schools gain an important teaching tool that engages students to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Brian Woods is director of networking operations for the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, Indiana.

[|http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showstory.cfm?ArticleID=]5134 Video on demand boosts students' math scores By Corey Murray, Assistant Editor, eSchool News June 29, 2004—Short video clips that reinforce key concepts are effective in increasing student achievement, according to a second research project. An earlier study found that video can improve learning in science and social studies. Now, brand-new research shows judiciously selected video clips also can produce statistically significant gains in algebra and geometry scores. The new study, conducted by independent research firm Cometrika, headed by Franklin J. Boster, a distinguished-faculty-award winner at Michigan State University, was released June 21 during the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in New Orleans. Aware of favorable results involving science and social studies in a similar study conducted across three rural Virginia school districts in 2002 (see Virginia schools boost student achievement with video on demand"), LAUSD officials signed on to the idea.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/partners/showrelease.cfm?ReleaseID=2118 April 10, 2007—The use of open, sharable course materials is transforming education worldwide: Educators across the globe are taking open digital content items and repurposing them for their own classrooms; universities in Vietnam have begun translating materials available through MIT's OpenCourseWare program; and in Japan, leading universities have come together and agreed to make much of their courseware open as well. (See "Web fuels 'democratization' of knowledge.")

Competition Example
HP Celebrates 35th Anniversary of HP Calculators with Video Contest As part of a year-long celebration of its 35th anniversary in the handheld calculator business, HP today announced a nationwide competition inviting entrants to submit short videos that capture the essence of their personal experiences with, emotions toward or artistic interpretations of HP calculators...