If you’re searching for images on the web there is no end to what you may find. Searching for a set of images can be even worse. Fototopia makes this easy!
You can search for or browse through galleries of photos that users have provided. If you like one you can turn the photo gallery into a widget that you can paste into any html friendly textbox. If the user provided information with the gallery such as google maps, wikipdia pages and links, it will appear in the widget.
You can try adding your own photos to a preexisting gallery and if it gets enough votes it will stay there for everyone to see. This voting system eliminates the chance of albums having low quality or irrelevant photos!
You can also download the free fotopedia application and make your own photos into a widget that you can post anywhere! This widget makes it easy for anyone to view your photos without them having to download any software.
How can this be used in education?
Field trips photos can be made into a slide show that includes a map of where the trip was, wikipedia links to the area, species found there and also a link to other webpages about the location.
If you have some course material that would be enhanced with some imagery you can find the topic, select a gallery and place the gallery widget right into your course.
Alternative photo storage tools are Flickr and Google’s Picasa
Author: Rebecca Mercer
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#1 by How I Make $300 a Day Online at June 18th, 2009
Hey, nice post, really well written. You should post more about this.