Image and video hosting

What for

The proliferation of digital cameras and other recording gadgets provides people the chance of creating videos. Consequently there are new necessities and possibilities (see Online Photo Sharing in Plain English).

What has to be done

There are many services that offer file, photograph and video hosting. The student will explore the following services.

• For creating and sharing picture albums:
  • Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/)
  • Picasa Web (http://picasaweb.google.com/)
• For storing and sharing videos:
  • YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/)
  • Google Video (http://video.google.com/)

What to hand in hand how

If it was necessary, the student will open a forum in order to ask questions or make comments. It is not necessary to hand any document for this activity, but it is recommended sending appropriate posts to the subject blog.

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