Thing 10

For the Sharing Photos Thing I chose to use Instagram.  This is an app where you can share photos with people in your groups that you create.  You can not only take photos but you can crop and filter them before sharing.   There are a lot of places now that have photo contests that use Instagram as the way to share the photos.  I have been curious about this because of some of those contests, but I haven't tried it until these 23 Things.   I am an amateur photographer so anything that I can learn about photos, editing them, and how to share them with others is greatly appreciated.

Personally I would use this to share the photos I take on trips with my other photo "geek" friends and share photos with family and friends.  It seems like a much easier way to do this because it doesn't take a lot of time to upload them to a site and you only have so much space to attach photos in email. This way you know that the person instantly got the photo and then they will be able to do whatever they like with the photo.

Professionally this would be great to do a project in your class about watching the butterfly life cycle, planting a seed and watching it grow, or watching eggs hatch.  You would be able to have students take daily photos and share them with the group.   You could also have the students do a scavenger hunt and have the students look for certain things, take a photo and then share them with the class.  Also if you had preschoolers you could have them learn the ABCs by finding things that start with the letter of the week and take a photo and then share it and finally put together a group book of all the things they found that start with each letter of the alphabet.

This app will be helpful to educators if they can just see the many different ways that you can use this technology in their classroom.  I hope that some educator are going through these 23 Mobile Things and seeing all these great apps that would work for them in both their personal and professional life.