Flickr

Blogging provides a way to share your thoughts and ideas. Delicous provides ways to store and share your favorite web pages. Now that you have explored those a little bit, let's look at ways to share photos.



Click to view: Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this assignment, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and are using Flickr for.

Note: click each of the links above to learn more about the Flickr site, using tags and groups.


Flickr Tutorials and Resources:
Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)
Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
Flickr: Popular tags Interesting- Last 7 days
Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups)

Assignment Two DUE MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27!

Take a good look around Flickr . Then, create a Free account and upload some photos to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “T21C” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and your Flickr experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. (See mine above.) Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun and if you're interested in looking at some other photo hosting sites, then why not check out this Wired story.

After you have figured out how to navigate Flickr, read this article The Promise of Social Networks and give some thought as to how Flickr might fit into the K-12 classroom.

Also, remember to search Flickr by our T21C tag to see what other photos have been posted by others.

PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.