Flickr
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The answer to most questions concerning Flickr can be found on their FAQ page.
A video that in 3 minutes presents an overview of online photo sharing. Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
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Teaching and Learning Possibilities
How can Flickr be used within your course or discipline?
- A book has been published about flickr possibilities. It's called flickr mashups.
- Alan Levine has argued that flickr can be the ultimate tool to introduce all the facets of Web 2.0-ish concepts. I've presented on this a number of times; you may find some examples you seek at What Can We Do With flickr? done last October for the K12 Online Conference. Also a good list of other resources on this page.
- Share photos within a Class, School, Department, Faculty, College or University.
- Set up a group for your courses - share photos with group members
- Architecture/visual arts groups can use the geo-tag feature to share images/locations, etc.
- An example of a designer using flickr to collect great web page designs:Web Design Inspiration
- Work with international students - i.e. stimulate discussions on countries of origin
- World issues - a map for students - i.e. making it seem like more than a map by using photos and linking to real-life images
- Traveling - flickr your journey - share with family, classmates
- Use for building community in distance education - i.e. students share images of themselves, where they live, etc. "introduce yourself in flickr" - where you live, work, etc.
- Use in Telemedicine for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
- Use in Anatomical Pathology for diagnostic consultations.
- Senior high school Math Assignment: With resulting Flickr photos relating to this math assignment.
- Most underused is the ability to create hyperlinked diagrams with the notes tool -- see examples
- There are some interesting ideas for doing visual stories via imagery -- Storytelling in Flickr and --teaching files Xrays.
- And flickr groups provides a place to share images and have a built in discussion tool- see the one for - Flickr in Education
- Great YouTube video The Machine is Us/ing Us
Fast Flickr Facts
Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by Lynette.
A website that allows you to find, upload, share, annotate and discuss photos and images. As of July 2006, flickr had 228,000,000 photos, with 1 million images uploaded each day. Flickr had 4 million users, 75% were not from the USA. Flickr was originally designed as a game.
Main features:
- You have your own page to show your photos
- People can leave comments on every photo
- Makes many photo sizes, such as thumbnail, medium and large
- Rotate photos easily
- Set privacy levels on each photo and decide who can see them and comment on them
- Upload photos by email or from your cameraphone
- Post photos to just about any blog (LiveJournal, Blogger, Moveable Type, Typepad, Manila)
Searching for Photos
You can search for photos by title, description, tags, date, and/or license. You can also search for people and groups.
Uploading photos
If you have Free Account, your upload bandwidth is limited to 100 MB per month and each photo you upload must be less than 5MB in size. Free Accounts are deleted if the user becomes inactive for 90 consecutive days. Pro accounts remove most of these limitations (24.85 per year). The maximum size for uploading with pro accounts is 10 MB.
Once you upload a photo you can give it a title, write a description, and add tags. These all become searchable to other people (unless your photos are private).
You can use the flickr web interface to upload your photos or download some desktop tools (drag and drop interface) that will upload photos.
Sets
You can organize your own photos into Thematic sets or as related to Chapters or Topics in your course.
Comments
You can allow other people, like your students or your peers, to make comments on your photos. These comments are much like a chronological bulletin board with your photo as the 'topic.'
Notes
Allows you, or other to create annotations directly onto images. Great for describing parts or features within photos.
Tags
Tags are a way for both you and viewers of your images to describe resources in personally meaningful language and classification schemes. The act of assigning tags (meta-data - data about data) is placed into the hands of the viewer, instead of exclusively in the hands of the author or publisher. You can add tags to other people's photos posted to any group you are a member of. Tags are searchable.
Allowing everybody to add tags (metadata) creates what are called 'folksonomies.' Folksonomies exist in contrast to heirarchical, pre-defined, taxonomies in information definitions. A taxonomy is often pre-defined, or at minimum defined by authors/publishers. Folksonomies are user-defined.
Groups
You can join existing groups or create new groups.
Groups can either be public, public (invite only) or completely private. Every group has a pool for photos and a discussion board for talking. There are two levels of access to groups -administrators, who control the settings for the group; and members, who can add photos to the group and discuss photos.
You can create groups around topics or subjects. As an administrator of a group you can restrict upload and view access only to those members who are in the group. Groups can be Public, Public (but require admin approval) or Private.
When you add a photo to a group pool, all members of that group can leave comments, add notes and add tags to it.
Contacts
You can add people to your contact list. This makes it easy to keep in touch and up to date on the photos they are adding to flickr.
Geotagging
Allows you to map the location where the picture was taken. You can also 'search' for photos using the global map.
Copyright
By default all images are copyright. You can assign one of six Creative Commons licenses to any or all of your images.
Additional resources
A TED talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas on Photosynth
Flickr RSS Feed via del.icio.us
Flickr (20 November 2009)
compfight + a flickr™ search tool (20 November 2009)
Flickr Related Tag Browser (20 November 2009)
Flickr: factoryjoe's Photostream (20 November 2009)
flickr world map | allthegoodness.com (20 November 2009)
