Photo Sharing

With photo sharing everyone has the opportunity to save and share their photos for free with the ability to edit them. The sites I visited states that the storage is unlimited and because the service is free, this is a useful tool for everyone. There is no danger of losing precious moments through uncontrollable circumstances such as a fire or flood. This is impressive for me since we burned out when I was a child, and lost all of the memorabilia we had gathered over the years.
Photos can be placed in virtual albums for organization by subject, date, location or a combination. We have the ability to place tags on photos so we can name people in the photo, and share them with family, friends, or strangers. For a fee, we have the opportunity to have unique gifts made for family, friends and loved ones through this medium.
I am not sure how a teacher could use this effectively unless they were to use the pictures in a video documentary, or as stills, and then ask students to identify with the country, culture, or whatever they were using for a student report project.
The opportunity to make the pictures available for public access allows others to comment on their own experiences, or ask if you also saw another nearby point of interest.
I was impressed with the flexibility of these sites and the many opportunities available to everyone that has internet access. You don’t even have to own your own camera!
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.snapfish.com/info17?s_kwcid=photo%20sharing|2603540033