Photo Sharing!!

This weeks focus was to learn more about photo sharing sites, their features, and to think about how you could incorporate them in your final website. I learned a lot from browsing through each of the websites for the photo sharing applications. I looked at the information for Flickr, Photobucket, Google Images, and Picasa. I chose to create an account for Flickr. I really like the option that it provides for embedding a slide show of pictures into a website. I ended up integrating this into my website that I am creating. I am creating a website that teaches third graders about the human body, and for lesson 1, they will learn about the three main types of joints in the body. So, I embedded a Flickr slide show of pictures into my joints lesson. I found three pictures of the three different types of joints, and then described each one and created a slide show of pictures. I think that students will benefit from being able to visually see each joint. I may even try to find some videos to incorporate in the slide show so students can see how the joints actually work in the human body, and so students can see how each joint moves differently at different body parts.