I loved the idea of sharing pictures with my classmates and I knew exactly which two. As I have mentioned before, my husband and I are nerds. We enjoy comic books and television shows about traveling through time and space. It is something we share and really have fun with together. My husband works with computers and travels quite a bit but when he is home, he is also an artist. He is really very talented and our house is filled with his wonderful paintings. He does a lot of beautiful pieces but he also does some really fun ones. Lately, he has been working on a series of Star Wars back stage shots that are super cool.
The other picture that I wanted to share was of our dog. I am a huge animal lover and we used to have two dogs and a cat. My dog passed away last year so now we just have our welsh corgi and cat. My cat is awesome (don't get me wrong) but our dog is some kind of special. Her name is River and she is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. My husband had her as a puppy before I met him so I really got lucky with her. She is the most affectionate, loving, hilarious dog I have ever met and I am just so proud to be her owner. It seems silly to some to put so much love into their animals but mine are truly special. When my husband travels, they keep me company and make sure I don't get too lonely or sad. I am just very thankful.
Flickr could be a wonderful tool in the classroom. You are able to find pictures on nearly everything and it may even be fun to do some sort of photo scavenger hunt with the kids to help their searching techniques. The program I am going into is Special Education, and I would love to work with the severe and profound, which may not allow me to work with Flickr as much as other classrooms. It would be great to work with for personal photos or just photo searching in general. Like most photo hosting websites, you can usually find some pretty amazing photography. I used to use Photobucket when I was younger to hold my photos in one online, safe place. However, I haven't used that in a very long time. Now the only photo sharing websites I use are Pinterest and Instagram.
Pinterest is where you can pin photos you find on your page and sort them into boards. You are also able to upload you own photos that can be placed in a category for others to explore and search. Pinterest is very much like Flickr except the set up different and a little more organized and structured, which I enjoy. Instagram is a photo sharing social network that allows you to post pictures of anything you would like to (expect inappropriate post) so your friends can see them.
I have a few different views on having my photos in a public place. My Instagram account is usually public because there is nothing that I place on there that is inappropriate or incriminating. It is usually just pictures of my animals doing funny things or me or my friends and family. However, I do understand that more and more, companies and schools are looking at social networking sites (especially Facebook) to see if their employees or applicants are posting inappropriate things that can be seen by others, including parents or students. It is an interesting dynamic to today's society but it is clear that people need to watch what they put on the internet. It seems to be getting people in more and more trouble.
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