BP2_MyLiveGallery

I am a High School Art Teacher, so a lot of my job is not just teaching kids the elements and principles of design and how to be creative but also how to display and show off work. Students need to be able to display and show work online, just a sign of them times, and a lot of students don’t have the money or the resources to create their own webpages or a place to store images, etc.

As I looked into Web 2.0 tools, I was specifically looking for a user friendly site that would allow students to upload photos of their work into one place where they could then send people to view their portfolios. I found MyliveGallery.com.

It is a free site where student can upload photos and then put them in a professional slideshow presentation and then share them with each other, college representatives, and even potential art show judges. I require my students to have a professional portfolio at the end of each year showing casing their works, so this is perfect for them.

How can you do this? It’s really easy! Go to www.mylivegallery.com

and create a free account.

Once you have created your free account, upload your photos and specify the size that you want them to be. Next select the theme that you want. You can do serious professional backgrounds for business or school presentations and or more colorful lively ones for your own family photos that you want to share.

Then you just view your gallery! Its that simple! I created a sample of what one of my photography students could do if they used this Web 2.0 tool to help them create their portfolio for the end of the year.

To the left is the sidebar that contains all the photos in the portfolio, you can click on each image individually or watch the whole thing on a timed transition slide show. The images above are actually photographs by Tara Bishop, who was a senior of mine last year. What she turned in then was a flash drive with each individual image saved to it. Clicking on each image and having to view it individually just does not do the work the justice that putting it into a program like this would do.

I am really excited to show and teach this Web 2.0 (along with others) to my students so that they can put together dynamic presentations of their work that they can have anyone with a computer access!