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Make A
Valentine For Mom - Digital Cameras Make It
Easy For Kids to Preserve Memories
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by:
ARA
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(ARA) - Digital photography is fast emerging
as a popular family-friendly hobby. A recent survey of 1,500 parents
and children conducted by Harris Interactive found that almost nine in
10 kids are enthusiastic about engaging in projects with their parents
that involve technology, such as using digital photos to create
greeting cards.
Children are fascinated by photography. They won’t settle for simply
having their pictures taken. They want to grab the camera and start
snapping away themselves. But if you’re a parent with an expensive
digital camera, you may hesitate to hand it over.
Those who question the wisdom of sharing their camera with young
children may be reassured by a recent nursery school project in
Scotland. A classroom of four-year-olds was given digital cameras for
an entire semester. Although the purpose of the program was enabling
the kids to produce a visual record of their activities and experiences
while also developing their technology skills, it served another
function.
Snapping photos made the afternoon challenge of energizing weary
four-year-olds much easier. One teacher commented that when the kids
looked a little droopy and their attention wandered, she brought out
the cameras. The children enthusiastically started clicking away. They
even learned how to upload photos to the computer and share them with
friends. According to the teacher, there were benefits beyond providing
an introduction to online technology. The children learned to take
turns and cooperate and developed their aesthetic and artistic
abilities.
Families using traditional film cameras can still take advantage of the
benefits of digital photography by using an online photo service. One
San Francisco mother armed her kids with disposable cameras and let
them roam the house, snapping candid photos of whatever they fancied,
whether it was mom at the computer, the cat’s nap in the sunshine or
baby brother’s bath in the kitchen sink. At day’s end, the mother
collected the cameras and mailed them to Shutterfly (shutterfly.com), a
leading online photo service.
Once the photos were uploaded to her Shutterfly account, mom received
an email and she and her children went online to select only their
favorites. The days of processing all 24 prints to reveal the prized
“good ones” are in the past. Using simple-to-use Shutterfly tools,
together the mom and her children added creative borders and personal
captions, and even transformed color photos into black-and-white. For
less than ten dollars, the result was a Shutterfly “Snapbook,” a spiral
bound photo album that’s delivered home, or can be mailed directly to
doting grandparents as a gift.
Digital photography just might be the answer to preserve those precious
family memories.
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