Sharing Images Through Photo Box
June 7, 2008Every year, I get a few sixth form students to help photograph the year 11 students during their National Record of Achievement (NRA) evening. We set up a white backdrop with studio lighting and take portraits. In our school, the students don’t have a uniform so they tend to go a bit overboard when dressing up for such events… Here is an animoto video including some of the images:
One of the most stressful parts to organising such an event is giving students access to photographs and then being asked to print them out. So, this year we decided to use Photo Box as a platform for sharing images. In Photo Box, you can specify a password code so that it is not public, but still easily accessed as you don’t need an account to view images. Anyone can then order prints, which are printed and dispatched by Photo Box.
There are other services where you can specify a fee on top of the printing costs so it is possible to make a profit. As a department, this might be an extra way of raising funds to buy capital items or even allow students to profit from their work.
Tags: images, photo box, photography, photos
June 8th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Thanks for this information Zek. It sounds a very useful system and is one I will certainly recommend to other people and hopefully use with my family as we often get together and the people want copies of certain photos. This system seems very sensible. I will certainly be letting the Heads of Sixth form conference know about it. Did you have any problems with permissions etc with school?
June 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
No problems with permission from the school. Since it involves a code to access, it is no different to providing students with a password for the VLE where all sort of information is confidential.