Emeriging Technologies 3 (Flickr)

Have you ever wanted to share your photos with your friends and family? Well there is a simple way to share your photos, edit, and create prints all in one place. I went to www.flickr.com and found that it is one of the fastest ways to share photos with friends and family. Now everyone around the world can see your photos. There are limits that you can set to only allow only let your loved ones to see or to let the public to see.
Once you decide who can see your photos the next step is to upload your photos. Just click on the photos you want and then add them to your page. Once you are done you click download and then in a few minutes your photos are ready to share. You can also add videos with the same process.
Then when you are all done uploading your pictures and videos you can edit them and tag them. Then they are ready for the world or just your friends to see. You can send e-mails to your friends and family telling them where to find your photos. If your friends and family also have a flickr account you can join them in your contact list. Then whenever you or they have new photos you know as soon as they post them. You can also join groups to do an event suck a wedding photos.
Over all I think this is a great tool to use. If I was to go on a field trip with my students I could post photos online and make them available for parents to see. The parents could also post photos of the class and it would be a neat way to share the class experiences. It would be valuable to have pictures from my trips on there too. I could just simply log on and be able to show pictures of cool and interesting things that we are learning in class. With the tagging, I could type in a subject and then I could find pictures of that without having to take the pictures myself. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33275229@N08/