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All just about BabyMake a Valentine for Mom: Digital Cameras Do it Easy for Kids to Preserve Memories
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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 just about nine in 10 kids are crazy just about piquant in projects with their parents that involve technology, such as victimisation digital photos to create salutation cards.
Children are fascinated by photography. They won’t settle for just having their images taken. They want to grab the camera and start snapping away themselves. But if you’re a parent with an dear digital camera, you may hesitate to hand it over.
Those who question the wisdom of sharing their camera with young children may be confident
by a recent nursery school project in Scotland. A schoolroom of four-year-olds was given digital cameras for an entire semester. Though the intention of the program was sanctioning
the kids to produce a visual record of their activities and experiences spell likewise developing their technology skills, it served another function.
Snapping photos ready-made the afternoon challenge of energizing weary four-year-olds more easier. One teacher commented that once
the kids looked a little sagging
and their attention wandered, she brought out the cameras. The children sky-high started clicking away. They even as knowing how to transfer
photos to the computer and share them with friends. According to the teacher, there were benefits on the far side
providing an introduction to online technology. The children knowing to take turns and join forces and developed their aesthetic and artistic abilities.
Families victimisation traditional film cameras can still take advantage of the benefits of digital photography by victimisation an online icon service. One San Francisco parent armed her kids with disposable cameras and let them drift the house, snapping candid photos of whatsoever
they fancied, whether it was mom at the computer, the cat’s nap in the sunshine or baby brother’s bath in the room
sink. At day’s end, the parent collected the cameras and mail-clad them to Shutterfly (shutterfly.com), a leading online icon service.
Once the photos were uploaded to her Shutterfly account, mom received an email and she and her children went online to choice only their favorites. The days of process
all 24 prints to reveal the prized “good ones” are in the past. Victimisation simple-to-use Shutterfly tools, together the mom and her children adscititious creative borders and personal captions, and even as changed
color photos into black-and-white. For less than ten dollars, the result was a Shutterfly “Snapbook,” a spiral bound icon album that’s delivered home, or can be mail-clad directly to loving
grandparents as a gift.
Digital photography just strength
be the answer to preserve those precious family memories.
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