Digital+File+Sharing


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 Connie Dang Shutterfly is an excellent way for children to share pictures of their experiences, videos, comments and favorite websites. When an album is uploaded, the student has a choice of whether to create a simple homepage to send to their friends. These pictures can also be made into personalized gifts if desired. This is a good way to support creative activities in an early childhood setting because can create their own webpage together. The teacher can ask the class for suggestions on what else to put onto the webpage. Each class can create their own webpage for other students to read about.  This is the link to the sample website that I have created for a classroom. Registration and login is required to view this site: [] 

Sn​apfish
Brittany ​Waltz

Snapfish is a website with practically endless possibilities when it comes to digital photography. This site allows its users to upload digital photographs for the purpose of storage, sharing, or creations. You simply have to sign up for an account to begin. For this project, I focused on the sharing aspect of Snapfish. There are many ways to share photos through Snapfish, but I was feeling creative and decided to use their new Snapshow option. Basically, a Snapshow is a simple slide show of the photographs. There are several themes and songs to choose from, and once you decide then you can choose your photos. The rest is done for you.

I think that Snapfish is a great way to keep children, parents, and teachers connected throughout the year. For example, the teacher could take photos of children in the classroom and then compile a Snapshow to send to the parents. Or, Parents and children could create a Snapshow as a form of show-and-tell about weekends, holidays, or vacations. My example is a Snapshow with pictures that represent each season. This could be used in the classroom to teach about the differences among each season.

Click Here to see the Snapshow I created about the different seasons. //(To see the show, you must first have a snapfish account)//

Photovisi
Brooke Newton

Photovisi is a website that can be used to create collages using photos from the teacher. This website can be used to create wallpaper for the computer or different objects can be purchased such as coffee mugs, mouse pads, or posters. These collages can be a great way to display photos of kids in the classroom. Most teachers display photos from class trips or activities in the classroom and this can be a fun way to do it instead of just taping up pictures on the wall. This site can also be used to compile educational pictures together on a poster. This can be a great way to introduce a new topic to kids. Showing them the pictures as you talk about something can help them to remember it longer. Teachers can also take pictures of the students' artwork and make a collage showing the entire class' work.

This is a link to a collage that I created to introduce Thanksgiving to students: @http://www.photovisi.com/download?id=F216945A-7011-0886-4DB5-F84D1DD18D6E

TeacherTube
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sarah Steele Banks TeacherTube is a website that allows people to both post and access a wide variety of information that could be used in classrooms. The posts can include videos, documents, photos, and audio (very similar to YouTube). Different subjects are available. People can post comments about the other posts, which can allow for any issues or discrepancies to be viewed or reviewed for clarity. I think this would be a great tool for home schoolers or for tutoring. This site does require a free membership, although anyone is allowed to view posts.

I created my homepage so that I can begin uploading photos, videos, documents, or audio in the future! @http://www.teachertube.com/members/index.php

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">My Photo Album
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Michelle Appelman
 * Myphotoalbum.com is a website that allows people to upload picture and videos and share them for free. This would be a great site for teachers to use as a way of connecting with their student's parents. Teachers can post pictures to this website and share it with parents/ caregivers or other educators. Another great feature is that it allows people to upload videos to the albums. This is a wonderful way for the teacher to communicate or share a message. Furthermore, the website is easy to share and access. The accounts have very secure privacy settings that teachers and parents would appreciate. These albums serve as a way for teachers to share with parents/caregivers what goes on their classrooms on a daily basis.

This is a link to an album that I created to demonstrate what a teacher's class album would look like: <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">http://michelleapp. myphotoalbum.com **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Allison J​ennings
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Photobucket is a website where people can upload, share, and edit photos for free. This would be a good site for teachers to use because they can upload photos from the classroom and post them on Photobucket so they would be available for the parents to see. Also teachers could use this website for finding photos that related to a lesson that they are teaching. An example of this would be if a teacher is teaching her class about how the leaves change to different colors in the fall she could look on Photobucket to find a picture that shows this. One picture could show how the leaves look in the summer and another photo can show how the leaves look in the fall.

(This is a link to a picture that shows how leaves look in the summer) http://media.photobucket.com/image/summer%20leaves/billclave/DSC01609.jpg?o=9

(This is a link to a picture that shows how leaves look in the fall) http://media.photobucket.com/image/fall%20leaves/lori7524/motion_falling_leaves.jpg?o=43

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Madelyn Hosch
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Zuitube is a website for kids that includes lots of videos that are parent approved and appropriate for kids. The website includes videos from all different genres, and this website would be awesome to use in an early childhood classroom! I wasn't able to upload a video to the website myself because the videos have to be approved by the company, and in order to upload a video, you have to join and pay money. Instead of uploading a video, I found a video that would work great in an early childhood classroom! Since it is near Halloween, there is a really cute song called "Five Little Pumpkins" that is similar to "Five Little Monkeys." I found a video of the "Five Little Pumpkins" that a teacher could show his/her class and have them sing along. The song can help with counting skills, and it is really cute and a lot of fun!

(This is a link to the song) [|http://video.kidzui.com/videos/1308300?related[search=five+little+pumpkins]]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kidstube
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Cecile Robinson

KidsTube provides a fun, monitored environment for Kids to create, upload, and share their creative ideas. KidsTube.com is monitored to filter out offensive content, our Staff spends many hours a day monitoring comments, video uploads, and more. All videos uploaded to KidsTube are screened before ever being available to view on the site, this way we can make sure nothing offensive makes it through to the Kids. KidsTube also offers Weekly Video Contests which encourage Kids to sing, dance, learn about the importance of Art, Nature and much more! KidTube is considered the number one video sharing site for kids. Kids that have dreams one day to be singer can practice at a young and get feedback on their performance.This site will help students with their self esteem and build self confidence. www.kidstube.com

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