Thing 2: Photo Sharing

Instagram is something that I have been using for over three years now and I don't think that I could live without it at this point! I share everything from pictures of my husband and I (most recently our wedding photos that I cannot stop sharing) photos with friends, and most importantly photos of my puppy Riley! I have become one of those crazy people that shares pictures of her dog all the time but I can't help it- she is like my child! I post more pictures of her then anything else and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love that Instagram is so easy to use and one of the best features is to be able to look back on what I posted and when. I love seeing Riley go from a small puppy to the dog that she is today. I also love that I can look back on each picture and remember all the great memories.

These are all photos of Riley that I took with my iPhone and then edited and shared on Instagram.

Riley as a puppy when my husband and I first got her

 

Loving her new bed and toys that she got for Christmas

All snuggled up during a snowstorm

 

Pinterest is another site that I use ALL the time and absolutely love. I don't think that I could have planned my wedding without it. I was able to get so many ideas that I may not have come up with myself and was able to find a lot of DIY projects that helped to save some money. I think it would be a really great tool to use with my students and think that they would have a lot of fun with it. They could create boards with pictures and ideas for projects and share them with one another.

I am sure that many of my students are already using sites such as Pinterest & tumblr and I think that being able to use them in the classroom and showing the students how to properly use them would be a great lesson. I already teach them about how to be safe on the Internet and using popular sites that they love would be a great way to get their attention.

I really liked exploring the photo sharing sites and even learned about some new ones I had never heard of. One of my favorites had to be the video on "Seven iPhone Photography Tricks". My iPhone is the device I use to take 99% of my pictures and learning those tricks was really helpful.