Monday, January 12, 2009

Week 3 Photo Sites

I had no idea that so many photo sharing sites existed. I love using Shutterfly and Snapfish, but I didn't know about Flickr, Mappr, or Montagr. These sites are so amazing. I used Flickr to make the slide show of Reuben on the left of this page. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I actually had to go on another blog and find directions about how to make a slideshow. Then I had to copy the html code to my blog. The hard part was adjusting the html code to make the slideshow fit in the narrow space on my blog. I'm so grateful for the help sites on blogger that tell me how to do these things.

I'm actually really excited to see Mappr. I've been using Google Earth with my classes a lot this year. We read a lot of world stories and it's nice to find those on a map and then click on pictures that actual images of these new places. My students love it. I am trying to think of ways to integrate Mappr with the concepts I have used from Google Earth. I'm excited to keep exploring and clicking until things work out the way I want.


I found this picture on Flickr. I love this site because people take much better pictures than I ever do. This is Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. It is one of my favorite places to be in San Francisco, but I could never caputre it like this photographer did.

1 comment:

  1. love your SF picture. Are you a Bay Area girl? I grew up with shopping trips (outlets) to "the city" and once my grandmother took all us girls for lunch and to see "Annie." It was awesome!

    I took my hubby to SF for a few days during our honeymoon and he always reminds me that he almost lost his life as I was driving those hill with a stick shift...ah the memories!

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