Are you looking for a fun hobby to share with your kids in this technology driven age? Want to get them away from the video games yet still capture their interest?

My-Photo-Video has found a way to let your kids have fun at the computer, while enjoying the outdoors. 

Beginning this Friday, we will have short (longer than a Tweet, but shorter than this blog post) lessons and assignments that are fun for you and your child. 

kids take fantastic candid photos

Photo & Video 101 will start at the very beginning, when you open up the camera, with topics such as:

• how to hold the camera
• getting to know the features of your camera
• how to post to Facebook
• how to set the resolution

and go all the way through

• video at sporting events
• editing photo & video together in a home movie
• color correcting your photos & video

Each week we will have a short lesson and simple assignment.

The following week we learn how to critique our own photos, learn the next super-quick lesson, and receive the next assignment.

These lessons, while aimed at kids, are written with adults in mind as well. The 72 year-old using their first digital camera will appreciate it as much as the 8 year old.

Do you share photos online?  

Do you backup your digital photos on a regular basis? 

Personally, I backup my photos to DVD and external hard drive, but if you don’t have a DVD burner or time, here is a fantastic way to both share and archive your photos.

Kodak has gotten some bad press lately because they are charging for online photo storage, but really they are the best deal around.

With the latest update to their Terms of Service, customers will have to order a mere $5 worth of merchandise per year for the privilege of storing up to 2GB of photos on their server.  $20 worth of merchandise if they have more than 2Gb. 

Depending on your camera’s settings, 2 Gb (gigabytes) is anywhere from about 300 to 3000 photos, about a years worth of photos. 

That’s not a $5 or $20 fee; you actually get $5 worth of photo products AND you get to store your photos for free AND you don’t have to bother backing up your own photos to disc or backup drive AND you can share them for free with friends and family AND, drumroll please, you can download your high resolution photos for FREE!

Not only that, but when you place that $5 order, you get free shipping!  

Did I include enough good things about this deal?

Don’t know the difference between high resolution and high altitude? A high resolution photo is a big file with enough info to enable your printer to print out a great looking photograph.  A low resolution photo is a small file, easily shared by email or posted online, but looks really bad when printed. 

The company that I currently use for online photo sharing does allow me to store all my photos online for free, without a minimum purchase.  However, should I ever want to download my hi-resolution photos, the ones I originally had on my camera and uploaded to them in the first place, I have to pay for the privilege.  Sure, it’s not a lot, but 5 cents per photo adds up quickly.

So, I can just store ALL my digital photos online, organize them into albums online, share them with friends online, download them for free whenever I need them and not have to bother with backup discs at all?

What are they going to do next?  Pay me to take photos?  Gotta love Kodak.

Check out their awesome new deal for yourself at this site.  And, by the way, my-photo-video.com is not part of Kodak’s affiliate program, so we are not compensated in any way for promoting their programs.