Fun With Flickr

Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online

Chapter 7

Blogs, Wikis, Poscasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for

Classrooms

• Digital images can be created in the classroom

• Free photo housing website

• Allows users to create digital photo albums and multimedia presentations

• Uses in the classroom– Discussion from around the

world about your image– Combine images of similar

topics with others– Write about different

scenes-use as a writing prompt

– Automatically receive related images as they are posted

Introduction

flickr

• Web-based digital photography portal but more than a publishing site– Contributors interact and share and learn from

each other in creative and interesting ways making it a huge potential in the classroom

• Share with parents, colleagues, community and students highlights or events through pictures– Examples: special projects, speakers,

programs, visitors, field trips

• Celebrations of good student work to share with the world

Uses of flickr in the Classroom

• No content guarantees of quality or appropriateness on flickr– Filters are set

• Members self-police

• Become familiar with the positives and risks before introducing flickr to students

• Teach expectations and appropriate use

Cautions

Basics

• Registration is required

• 100MB of storage is free

• $24.95 a year-unlimited uploads, unlimited storage, and unlimited viewing ability

Getting Started• Add images by uploading them

– Make all edits before uploading

• Restrict viewing or not– Restrict viewing allows only those you “invite” to view

the images– Public viewing allows the world to see and interact

• Tag your pictures with keywords• Create private groups so you and students can

work in your “own” space • Discussion can be turned off on some or all of

your submitted photos

What Can flickr Do in the Classroom?

• Teach social software• Teach geography by

integrating Google Earth

• Annotate• The sky is not the

limit

• Digital stories• Presentations• Slide shows• Virtual field trips• Illustrate poetry• Document school

work

http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980

There is a tutorial for interested users to view on ways to utilize the program.

http://jakespeak.blogspot.com/2006/03/classroom-uses-of-flickr.html

Annotation Tool

• Use digital image (yours or someone else’s-site the source)– Copyright licenses

allowing legal reuse

• Allows notes to be added to the image itself

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nnunnelley/3214892565/

Students can annotate what they see

http://www.flickr.com/photos/visbeek/2646265221/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/festblues/2486895886/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnz506/408037709/

Use images to enhance instruction.

• Connecting people from around the world– Meet and learn with others from far-flung

places

• Have a global sense of the world in photos when paired with Google Earth or Google Maps– Opens to the location on Google Earth– Shows other images taken at the same spot– Students could form a photo tour of a

community

Real Power of flickr

• Serve as a student’s online portfolio– Work is annotated with reflective descriptions– Comments made by peers and mentors

• A valuable tool for current events– Images posted almost as they happen via

camera phones

• Send pictures also from flickr to your Webpage or Weblog

• Educators– Engaged writing– Supplemental material– Record field trips– Produce magazine covers or movie posters

flickr in Practice

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Magazine Cover and much more

Examples

• Make It Mine– Take an

image– Remix it in a

photo-editing program

– Republish it• Give credit

to the original owner

• Random Writes

– Think of a word

– Type it in as a tag

– Take the first photo

– Write about it

• Photo Field Trips

– Search for images

– Three different sources

– Prepare them in a presentation

http://flickr.com/photos/24274882@N08/2299466480/

An Example of a Random Write