Silly me! One of my daughters turned me on to the FlickR website about three years ago. She sent me a ton of vacation pictures (joint vacation in Europe) so I would have them. She and her husband take lots of pictures...once in a while I pose for one. Our emphasis on that aspect of memorabilia couldn't be more different.
Anyway, what I didn't realize was one of the most obvious advantages of using the internet--safe storage of your pictures. I readily saw the advantage of sharing pictures, but sort of assumed my pictures were safe on my computer hard drive. In truth, I never really thought much about a fire or a crashed hard drive. This was probably the result from the lack of emphasis on picture-taking in the first place. I'll share a little story.
My mother died in 2000. I have six siblings and a few months later we met to go through a box (a little smaller than a box for duplicating paper) of pictures. That box contained everything from her 85 years of life and raising seven kids and 23 grandkids. A little box, about half-full.
Anyway, it didn't take us long to divide up the pictures and we even made duplicates for a handful of them. However, it points up the obvious lack of picture-taking as I was growing up.
Thinking about the advantage of using the web would at least preserve the memories and allow shared viewing at the same time. This is obvious to many, but a new learning for me.
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Thanks for the little story. I’m not big on pictures either. I believe that it has a lot to do with how I was raised as well but memories are important and pictures are great memories. I used to hate drawers full of pictures that no one looked at. Going digital fixed that problem but now there just in my computer. Putting them on Flickr will do 2 things. It will force me to go through them and toss some and it will also allow me to share them. Now they seem to have some value. Thanks for the story.
ReplyDeleteI went to a seminar were technologies were mentioned (flickr, blogs, skype) and we talked about how we used them. Most of us use these technologies in our personal life, but have not found a way to use them in our profession. Now comes the challenge of integrating these into our schools.
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