Thing 6

I can honestly say after loading up my own photos to flickr I may begin to use this as a primary use for my photos. I have a Mac and home that gives me the ability to take photos from my camera and then directly load them to Facebook which is my main method for showing off my obsessive tendencies to take pictures of my son (and soon to be daughter). Yet, I think that I may use flickr in the future to keep them and send them to those people who are not part of the facebook community, plus it is another way to make sure that I never loose those photos. Sadly, a few months ago my husband decided to reformat our other computer not realizing that all of our family photos were on there (including our honeymoon, Alaskan Cruise, and all of my son's photos from birth to age two) were stored on there and not printed. We ended up loosing a lot of very important and priceless photos. Ever since then I have been looking for a place other than facebook and the computer to store my images and I think flickr may be it. Plus I loved the easy of uploading (fast even from school) and how easy it was to label and tag.

Thing 5

I was very impressed by what flickr had to offer. I never realized that it was something beyond just another photo website. I personally have used places like Kodak and snapfish for all my personal photos. I never realized that this was a great outlet for school type photos as well.

The photo I selected was of Andrew Carnegie and his wife. The reason I decided to look at the Library of Congress photos is my students are currently in the library working on a primary source photo project of the Gilded Age. I wanted to see what types of offerings flickr had for my students. Although they did not have a tremendous amount of photos that students would use for this project, they did have a lot of unique photos that they really could not find elsewhere. Also, I think this is a useful site to introduce my students to as another search option for graphic historical sources

On a personal note I may try switching to flickr for my photo sharing it looks like it has more of sharing capacity then Kodak in that I can invite people and then after a period of time restrict their access. I like to show off my photos to friends and family, but I don't really like the idea that years later they can still have access to my photos.