We're entering a realm that I'm not entirely familiar with, here. I haven't really done a lot of photo sharing, other than on Facebook. I see limitations on the applications for training, especially where I work. However, there are some opportunities in high school and mid school education.
I played around with Flickr for a minute and it seems to be another social networking site with more emphasis on photos.
I checked out photobucket as well. Honestly, I wasn't too impressed with the photo sharing sites. The usability is decent, but I'm struggling with what they can be used for. I understand the social aspects of it, but it seems to be another way to simply connect peer-to-peer. However, many social networking sites have many of the same features, but more opportunities for communication. Correct me if I'm wrong. I just think that these are great for private use or educational use (i.e. sharing photos for research or sharing artwork.)
In the world of training, I think these sites may fall short. Often, business materials are too sensitive to share with a site that is prone to copyright infringement.
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Hi Ben --
ReplyDeletego to the google site for last year's course (its located in the resources section of the WebCT shell) -- or look at the Carnegie Toolkit site I made ... then look at the project designed by Myra. She used Flickr to develop a course in southwestern architecture for real estate agents. In one of the assigned readings, there is an art history professor who uses Flickr to teach a course and to annotate paintings.
Remember that Flickr is ONE media sharing site out of many. Think expansively and explore what's available. Look at the guy from Kansas State who uses YouTube, consider how professors and trainers are using Podomatic. Finally, all of these applications will soon be available inside the secure networks used by government agencies. Its WHAT they do that matters, not the brand name or the current site.
Kevin
Oh I understand, but I'm wondering how applicable this is to training. The real estate agents is a good example, but mostly it looks like education rather than training.
ReplyDeleteIt, of course, depends on the atmosphere in which the trainer works. In my arena, I don't know how a photo sharing site would help. Everything here requires too many permissions to capture photos/video.
If there were an internal sharing site, that would be plausible. Again, everything must be secure or blessed as unclassified and not official use only.
well, keep in mind that its also about media sharing, and 2) unlikely as it might seem now, you might not always be a trainer at LANL.
ReplyDeleteI already see plenty of places where trainers make on-demand quick and dirty videos and slideshows, upload them to an intranet along with an audio narration and some annotations. That material is then available to others to use in their training material.
The demand for fast turn around and lower costs is going to drive this.
ps to the above comment:
ReplyDeleteAlmost all of the companies who provide these on-line services make the bulk of their income by creating custom versions of the software for organizational clients of one kind or another. The public sites are loss-leaders to bring traffic to the site.