Photobucket

[|Photobucket] (Allows you to upload photos, videos, and images; make photo slide shows, host and share videos.)
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[|Example of how a 5th Grade Class used Photobucket]
Guide to Photobucket **__ [] __**

SWOT Analysis:
Strengths Weaknesses: Opportunities:
 * A place to store all your photos and videos.
 * You can share or see what other's shared of icons photography, quotes & sayings, art, popular videos, and so on.
 * While researching on photobucket, other people's postings may inspire your own.
 * Account is fee.
 * You can store thousands of photos and hours of video.
 * Friends and family don't need an account on Photobucket to see your stuff.
 * Built- organizer that keeps your photos and videos organized in albums.
 * Allows you to edit your photos
 * Built- in search engine.
 * You are submitting your photos and videos into a public area for all to see and access.
 * You can create group albums that allow you collaborate with friends and family.
 * You can enter a contest.
 * You can create scrapbooks to be printed or share online
 * You can create slideshows.
 * You can create gifts for loved ones.
 * Students engaged in technology and learning how to work with uploading documents, pictures, and videos on the internet.
 * Can enhance teaching and learning opportunities and allow for teachers and students to participate in activities that they couldn’t do before.
 * People can now share in experiences as they are happening through pictures and video uploading.

Threats:
 * Your allowing others access into your private life depending on how much you post that exposes yourself.
 * Photobucket may not always be useful in the educational setting; often used for leisure and personal purposes.
 * Teachers may have difficulty monitoring the appropriateness of pictures and videos that students and outside population are uploading to the site

Ideas for the Classroom:

 * You can transform your photo to [|photo canvas].
 * You can create a group for your class to share on.
 * Your class could enter a contest
 * You are allowing your class to get feedback on a video or picture.
 * You can allow the parents/guardians to see what your class is doing without having an account.
 * You can create a slideshow to share with your class.
 * You can have students use photobucket to create “About Me” digital autobiographies that share pictures and/or videos about their families, interests, vacations, etc.
 * You can have students supplement research projects about a famous people in history with photos using photobucket.
 * You can supplement Virtual Field trips.