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.