Flickr

The first thing I did when joining the Dream Team was add photos of my work ad my learners working to Flickr, and I very soon came to spend some time nearly every evening looking at photos of a wide range of art work from all over the world. I joined several groups, enjoyed commenting on people's work and saving many as my Favorites. I don't know if it's "allowed" but I downloaded a few photos onto my computer. There's a group called Gloucestershire, another the River Severn, so I included some of the photos from these groups when I ran a slide show a fortnight ago for my Community Texties Group, who are doing work inspired by looking at The River Severn. Today I printed some photos out to take to show my "hard to reach" learners, photos of stitching, knitting and crochet. I explained where I'd got them from. This initiated a very interesting discussion - an 89 year old was talking about how wonderful the internet was, how much her grandchildren were learning from it. Another spoke quite passionately against it. Another in the group said how she was changing her mind about the internet. Looking at the photos, most of them said that their work was just as good, which for me was fabulous and a sign of great progress, as lack of confidence is one of the things that holds most in the group back.
Using Flickr is very simple, maybe rather addictive so watch out!