Photobucket was really easy to use. Uploading photos was easy, you just clicked the big, green upload photos button and select what you wanted to upload. All the photos uploaded quickly, it only took a couple of minutes to upload over 150 images (I decided to upload an entire album from a family trip).
I played with several of the editing tools that Photobucket provides. I cropped several pictures and used some of the tinting and distortion features. After editing some individual photographs, I also made a slide show. It was very easy, all that you had to do is follow the directions on the page. I even put text on the pictures in the slide show.
I think that photographs are a great way for teachers to share activities in the classroom with the family's of their students. As wonderful as newsletters are, seeing a picture can often convey what is happening a little clearer. A slide show, complete with text, could be a great way for parents to see what happened on a field trip or an entire week.
Students could also use Photobucket to create photo slide shows. Young children (and not so young children) would probably enjoy playing with the different distortion tools and creating photo collages.
Here is one of the photos that I edited using Photobucket. I cropped the photo and used the greyscale tool to make it black and white.
The image is of my brothers. The rest of this post is just going to be me bragging about them. The one in the middle is Timothy. He is seventeen and about to graduate from high school. As you can see, he got all the height in the family (he is a full foot taller than I am). He is also incredibly smart; he got a 32 on his ACT, with perfect scores in both English and reading. His biggest interest is music, and he plays more instruments than I can keep track of. Right now he is the bassist for his school's rock and soul band and jazz band. The rock and soul band was named one of the top four high school bands in the Blues/Rock/Pop category last year (we are still waiting to hear about this year).
Matthew (on the left) just turned thirteen. He is a great athlete. He plays baseball, soccer, and golf, swims on his school swim team, and is starting to get interested in triathlons. His fastest times for swimming are a 34 second 50 meter freestyle and a 33 second 50 meter backstroke. He was the third best golfer for his age group in the state of Tennessee two seasons ago, but has only been playing for his school team since. He also participates in forensics (competitive acting); he won first place in duo improv and third place in pantomime in his last two competitions. He also acts in school plays-- he played the herald in Cinderella and was just cast as Chin Ho in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Andrew is the youngest at eleven. He is also a super athlete, but running is his favorite activity (he also plays soccer, baseball, and golf). He is the fastest eleven year old male distance runner in Shelby County, TN. His fastest 5k time is 21 minutes 20 seconds. He is also a budding musician (piano and trumpet) and getting involved in plays and musicals.
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