Online Photosharing

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Online photo sharing started in the 1990s as a way for photo companies to allow you to order and print your photos from the internet. It then turned into a service that allowed you to upload all your photos to the internet as a way to keep them safe just in case your computer had a fatal meltdown. Later it developed into a way to share your photos with family and friends by allowing them to go to your link and simply clicking through your photos. Now you can make it a public viewing session by allowing anybody to view your photos. This way of sharing your photos is useful because now you don’t have to order and print your photos, then spend money mailing them to grandma for her to pick out the ones she likes and store the ones she doesn’t like. Now you can just have her upload your link to the photos, view all the photos and only print out the ones she likes and leave the rest on the website. It also saves a lot of paper, ink, and storage room. This could be a very useful tool for teachers to use in the classroom as well. This could relate to the constructivist school of learning because the students relate the new information to the information they already know. Teachers can use online photo sharing when going on a fieldtrip to the National Museum of Science. They can snap digital photos of their time there and can later view those photos in class and recap on what the students have learned. They can also share these photos with other schools who do not have the resources to take a fieldtrip.