Session 5 - Media Sharing

Themed or Niche Social Networks

Recap from last week.

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HOMEWORK TASK 2

Join 2 different Themed Social networking sites.

Report back to the class on the sites you joined, why you chose them, and whether you think you would continue to use them. 5 - 10 minutes tops for sharing. 

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Take some time now to share what you discovered with the class.

Media Sharing

This week we will take a look at the range of media sharing social media sites that are available.

Media Sharing sites are those that allow you to share videos, photos and audio with people over the Internet.

I have split these into 5 subcategories:

Photo sharing 

Sites that allow you to share photos with your "friends" or those that follow you on the site. i.e. Flickr.com.

https://www.flickr.com/

Discussion/Research Task: Do you know of or use any other web based online photo sharing tools?

Video sharing

Sites that allow you to share video files - the first one that comes to everyone's mind would have to be YouTube.com.

https://www.youtube.com/

Discussion/Research Task: What other video sharing tools do you know of?

Audio Sharing

By audio sharing sites I mean sites that allow to upload and share audio files, not just streaming from the Internet. These are sites that allow you to share audio files or music with those within your network. Soundcloud is a good example of this.

https://soundcloud.com/

Discussion/Research Task: What other audio sharing tools do you know of?

Multi-media

Photo and video sharing at the one site. Most of the photo sharing tools also allow you to share video - Flickr allows both photo and video sharing. Many have come and gone over the years as social media has taken off and social networking tools like Facebook allowing both photo and video sharing.

DropShots is one that I came across:

https://www.dropshots.com/

Discussion/Research Task: Do you use any online tools to share both Photos and Videos?

 

Mobile

Mobile specific media sharing apps. There are a range of mobile apps for smartphones that allow you to share media direct from your inbuilt camera. Some are mobile specific and image or video specific, others just allow you to link in with your preferred social networking site. Mobile social networking and file sharing is a massive growth area, as more people are connected to the Internet with their smartphones and/or tablets.

Instagram is one that come mind instantly, but there are heaps more with new ones entering the sector all the time.

This is what Instagram looks like on the iPhone.

 Here is a photo of my dogs that I just took.

Once a photo has been taken, you can apply filters and effects.

And then you can share on your chosen Social Media.


Discussion: What mobile tools do you use to share Photos and/or video

 

Social Networks

As well as sites that are specifically for media sharing, most of the Social Networking sites also allow you to share Media files including photos and videos. These include Facebook, Twitter and Google+ just to name a few.

Group Activity

Design the perfect Media Sharing tool!!

Use whiteboard/wall to create a list of features that you would like to see in the perfect Media Sharing tool.

Blog Assessment Task

Add a post to your Blog outlining the tools that you use for media sharing and what tools you may use in the future.