Thing 8- Google Photos

I have been meaning to get familiar with Google Photos for awhile now and am happy I did.  Google Photos has many applications, including sharing photos with family and friends, editing photos and video, backing up photos to save space on your device, and much more.

One of the ways I plan to utilize this app in my teaching this year is through our school's yearbook.  Throughout the year my students take hundreds of photos, many of which are taken on their iPads.  If a photo is taken on the iPad it can instantly sync to their Google Photos and will be easily added to eDesign, the online software we use to edit our yearbook.  Google Photos will also be very helpful for sharing photos with my students instantly, allowing them to take the next step in uploading and editing them.

This is a great app.

Thanks!

Thing 6

Using a Chromebook

For the past few days I have been using a Chromebook for the first time.  I actually really like it for around the house functioning, it is light easy to use, and best of all opens the internet extremely fast.  Another thing that I like about it is that it seems to hold a battery for a long time because there aren't any other applications open that cause it to drain battery.

However, the fact that it is strictly internet based is also a problem for most consumers that depend on the functionality and expansiveness of applications like Microsoft Word.  I'm sure that there are comparable apps in the Chrome Store, but that would require more work and than many people would like to do.  I feel that most people, as they get older, like to use a program they've learned and learn as it develops, not necessarily learn a whole new program.

Overall, I see the value in the ChromeBook, it's easy to use and it's cheap, but it does have a target audience, and I don't think the art or business world are that target audience.

First Post 36 Things

This is my first blogpost for my WU course "36 Things".