Photo show

For the second emergent technology I used photoshow. I found photoshow on cool tools for schools. Photoshow is a photo sharing technology, where you upload pictures and can then organize them into a cute album and then share with friends or classmates. Overall, I really enjoyed using photoshow. I scrapbook and it was like digitally scrapbooking. It was extremely easy to use. The site is very user friendly. Once on the site all you must do is sign up. To sign up you just have to create a username, put down an email, and create a password. The account will save for 30 days, then you have to upgrade and the site is no longer free. The cost would be downfall, but would be worth it if used often. From there the website laid out the steps. First, you upload photos. You can upload the photos one at a time or all at once, which was convenient. Also, you can upload photos from your computer, facebook, flickr, shutterfly, or picasa, which was super neat. One slight thing was that downloading the pictures took quite a while, but you can work on other things while it uploads. After uploading, the site takes you to the personalization page, where I was able to decorate my photo album. You could add music, borders, stickers, and captions. My photoshow turned out great. After personalizing my album, photoshow gave me the option of sharing my album with others. I could email it to friends, upload to facebook, or get it on DVD. Also, it had a quick link to post directly to my blog, which was super helpful! As a tip I would suggest creating a trial album. The site was very self explanatory and literally takes you to the next steps so you do not get lost. As a teacher I would use this to document my class and the school year. It is an easy way to organize pictures and albums and make them cute. Most importantly, you can share the pictures and albums with the students and their parents and other teachers as well. Another way to use this in a class is to have the students create albums for a project. They could make an album as a research project and present it to the class, which gets them on the computer and doing research as well. Overall, I really liked using photoshow!