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School district’s website increases photo sharing

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Doris Buonomo, left, a member of the Southern Maine Health Care Auxiliary, is pictured at Dunegrass Country Club in Old Orchard Beach where, for the 15th straight year, she served as a hole-in-one spotter for the Auxiliary’s 20th Annual Golf Tournament. Proceeds from the event support a variety of hospital projects, including past campaigns to purchase state-of-the-art equipment and renovate rooms for improved patient care and privacy. This year’s tournament raised $23,000 for Pediatric Asthma Program and the hospital’s Cancer Support Program. Photo courtesy of Lee Cote

The Wells-Ogunquit Community School District website has been upgraded to include an interactive feature that allows the posting of digital photos with accompanying written commentary about events happening within the district using the social media service Instagram.

According to the district’s technology director, Michael Richards, people can track the account through Instagram from most mobile phone devices that are equipped with a camera or from a home computer that has Internet access.

Richards’ hope is that the new photo sharing feature will motivate many to like, follow, share and utilize the district’s social media pages such as Facebook and Instagram.

“We look forward to being able to showcase great events in a mobile fashion as people have lots of great things going on in the district,” said Richards. “We’re just trying to capture them and be able to share them.”

For legal reasons concerning student privacy, snapshots of students in classrooms or other educational settings within the district’s schools will not be allowed without parental permission.

Richards stressed that only those 13 years old or older can have an Instagram or Facebook account.

To see photos posted to date, visit the site at k12wocsd.net, and click on the blue “view on Instagram” button on the bottom of the home page or go to instagram.com/wocsd.

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