It was over spring break while I was reading some of the material for my class, that I saw a link to Flickr. I clicked on it, and the next thing I knew, I was digging my digital camera out of my purse and experimenting with uploading pictures. My real motivation behind this involves my mother and her photo email attachments. She is a very new digital immigrant, and has learned how to take pictures and email them to the family. The trouble with this is, that it can be somewhat annoying and time consuming to download all of those photos one by one. My interest in Flickr was to see if this was something easy enough to teach my mother to do.
I feel that it is probably something that she can handle with a bit of instruction. It took some playing around on my part to figure out how the process works. But now that I have tried it, I will be adding my own photos to my own site. It is a great way to organize and share photos. I like the feature of putting the photos into sets. It is pretty nice that the program can tell you on exactly which day each photo was taken! I plan to continue to develop my web photo album. And one of these days, I should have a chance to teach my mom as well.
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Strange how family can motivate use of technology! I originally got my .Mac account for a similar reason, to share family photos. I set up one "open" gallery so my children could easily post pictures from college or from their cell phones. The less technologically sophisticated members of the clan just like having a place they can look if not contribute.
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