Check out my latest blog entry over at TCEA’s TechNotes blog. Here’s the lead:

“What’s the best way to collect and share photos for my journalism class?” a high school journalism teacher asked me. The answer, without a second thought, was, “I’m not sure.” A few years later, a middle school journalism teacher asked me the same question. “I’m not sure. I could rig up an FTP solution. A PHP-based photo gallery would make it easy to share images via the web.” The question always arose though, “Why can’t I use Flickr?” Now, however, you can use Google Photos within the G Suites for Education to get the job done. It’s so easy. Let’s explore Google Photos as a tool for capturing and sharing images. Of course, Google Photos can do so much more.

 I can’t tell you how many solutions I’ve implemented over the years to help journalism teachers capture and share photos online. What’s amazing is that Flickr, the one tool everyone wanted to use, we couldn’t use because it was blocked in schools. It’s probably a whole other blog entry to share all the different Photo Gallery tools out there.

Let’s see…here are some free open source tools that I played with back in the day for hosting a photo gallery on a “traditional” web server using PHP, or in some rare cases, MySQL.

• Moodle Tip – Adding a Photo Gallery 
• Gallery
• PHP Web Gallery, which is now known as Piwigo 
• TinyWebGallery 

 You can find a few more online in this 2010 blog entry. But that list aside, the ones linked above were the ones I used a few times in different places and digital spaces. What are your favorite photo gallery tools now?