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Your digital life will expand online… use tags to organize, join groups or “pools,” and share pictures instantly all over the world.
An online photo album allows you to categorize all your photos and share them with friends and family members. Flickr.com and Photobucket.com are two examples of online photo albums. To categorize your photos online, you can label them with words that describe the image. These words/terms, called tags, are used to search your photo album for images that match your search.
Setting up a Flickr account
You will need to create a username/password and provide an e-mail address to set up a free Flickr account. Once you have created your account, you are free to upload any photos you would like. However, you may reach a limit of how many photos you will be able to add for the month. You have the option of upgrading to a premium account which requires a fee, currently $25/year. You can make your account open to the public, invite certain people to view it or keep it completely private. You can tag specific photos for certain groups – set viewing privileges to only “friends” or “family” and cut off casual browsing access to these pictures.
Ways to use Flickr and teach visual literacy:
Great Links
Purchasing a Flickr Pro account for your school's use http://www.utechtips.com/the-best-25-your-school-will-spend-this-year/
Flickr for Education Group http://flickr.com/groups/33384223@N00/
An older (but great!) article with Flickr edu ideas http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=172302903
Try having fun with FD's Flickr Toys: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
Your digital life will expand online… use tags to organize, join groups or “pools,” and share pictures instantly all over the world.
An online photo album allows you to categorize all your photos and share them with friends and family members. Flickr.com and Photobucket.com are two examples of online photo albums. To categorize your photos online, you can label them with words that describe the image. These words/terms, called tags, are used to search your photo album for images that match your search.
Setting up a Flickr account
You will need to create a username/password and provide an e-mail address to set up a free Flickr account. Once you have created your account, you are free to upload any photos you would like. However, you may reach a limit of how many photos you will be able to add for the month. You have the option of upgrading to a premium account which requires a fee, currently $25/year. You can make your account open to the public, invite certain people to view it or keep it completely private. You can tag specific photos for certain groups – set viewing privileges to only “friends” or “family” and cut off casual browsing access to these pictures.
Ways to use Flickr and teach visual literacy:
- Host photos for your blogs and wikis
- Share your community (a day in the life?) with others around the world
- Use the geotagging feature to make other locations on Earth come alive
- Budding artists can study advanced photo manipulation techniques like HDR
- Explore plants and animals of other places, or nearby
- Ask students to find visual representations of abstract concepts and describe them
- Talk about commenting, noting, and tagging photos. Find examples of constructive criticism in photo comment sections. Talk about being a good community member.
- Search using Creative Commons for works they can use for presentations.
- Annotate a favorite poem or saying with pictures: http://jakespeak.blogspot.com/2005/05/sandburg-meets-flickr.html
Great Links
Purchasing a Flickr Pro account for your school's use http://www.utechtips.com/the-best-25-your-school-will-spend-this-year/
Flickr for Education Group http://flickr.com/groups/33384223@N00/
An older (but great!) article with Flickr edu ideas http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=172302903
Try having fun with FD's Flickr Toys: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
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