Thing #7

In Flight
Originally uploaded by hba827

I added the above picture to my Flickr account to share with the apsu23things group. I had changed to Flickr several years ago when the Yahoo! Photos site I was using no longer accepted pictures, but was replaced by Flickr. I imported all of my photos at that point, yet never used the site again. Today was the first time I actually signed back in to the site to use it. I went ahead and uploaded this picture because it has become one of my favorites. I chose to use one of my photos for this portion of the assignment. However, I started searching using the different tags and realized a while later that I had been looking at pictures for what seemed like forever. There are pictures of just about anything I might need a picture of. For me, I think this site would be good to store pictures that we take in the classroom so that parents could have access at home. I post them to my classroom website (with permission of course), but this would be an excellent way to share them with parents. I would also like to use this site for storing and sharing pictures with family members who live out of town. What an easy way to store and share!
I have not used any other storage sites, so I have nothing to really compare with Flickr. I think it has the potential to be a great site for picture storage...we'll see after I get the opportunity to play around with it more! I do like having the option of making pictures private. It doesn't really bother me that the pictures are public. I would, however, make sure to create a group for sharing pictures (especially for students and parents) so that only the people who need the pictures can get to them. Keep students safe takes precedence over sharing pictures any day.