I have been using photo sharing sites for my AP Environmental Science field trips for a number of years. For a variety of reasons I have not always used the same site for storing photos, so they are in a couple of places. Most of the photos from the last few years are on Google Plus (which was originally configured as PicasaWeb from Google). Here are the photos from this year and sets from the past few years. I also have a few photos on Flickr, such as these from a Fall 2009 field trip. A few of my photo sets also contain images I took on my travels and have subsequently used to create Google Earth tours. Photos included in Google Earth tours need to exist elsewhere on the web (they are not part of the GE file), so uploading them to a photo-sharing/storing site is a good way to include personal photos in such a project.
For the past few years my APES students have been documenting natural change at a "field site" near their home - a back yard, local park, etc. They are strongly encouraged to include photos with the journals they keep for this project. I could have them share/submit photos to a shared Flickr or other site.
Most of my field trip photos are available only to those with a link, though I have not always been consistent about how they are uploaded.
If anyone else reads this, I am curious to know about other suggestions you might have for shared/student contributed photos.
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