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Week 9: Flickr and other Photo Tools

Educators know that using images helps students make connections to what they are learning.  Images can bring lessons alive and make learning more personal.  Flickr is one of many great tools for sharing and organizing your photos online.  There are many benefits to storing your photos online.  They are available wherever you are.  It is a great back up to make sure you do not lose your precious photos.  You can easily share your photos with friends and family.  There are many great uses for using this tool in your classroom.  This week's challenge is to share a photo using Flickr.  If you do not have a Flickr account, it is easy to create one and begin sharing your photos with the world. In this challenge you will use tagging to give your photo a unique identification that can be used to search.  Tagging is a great tool for sharing photos of a specific event with friends and family. In future challenges, we will be doing other things with digital photos.  So, if you have not yet created a Flickr account, this is a great time to do it.

Here is a Mashup Created by typing the tag MVSDFallChallenge into search in Flickr and then adding these photos to an Animoto video.



The following slideshow was made by typing the tag MVSDFallChallenge into search in Flickr.




 
 
Challenge: 
  1. Take a photo with your digital camera.  The theme is fall.  The photo can be of anything that represents the Autumn season.
  2. Create a Flickr account if you don't already have one.  (One thing about Web2.0 is that you have to sign up for lots of accounts.)
  3. Upload a fall picture to share with others.  (If students are in the photo, be sure you have permission to publish their photo.)
  4. Tag the picture with this tag  MVSDFALLChallenge
  5. In the description, include your name and school. (so you can be entered in the drawing)
  6. Send the link to the picture to me by e-mail at mthornburgh@mv.k12.wa.us
Congratulations to KarenSue Wend for winning this week's challenge.  She contributed a beautiful fall photo of the bounty from our yard to our collaborative photo project.
     

Flickr Fall Photo Challenge

 
 
 
 
Picasa is the Google Photo tool.  Picasa is a little different than Flickr in that you download a program to store, organize and edit your photos on your computer and not online.  This is a very handy tool to have on your computer and it is a free download from Google.  Picasa also has online photo albums where you can store , access and share  your photos and videos online much like Flickr.  I use both Picasa and Flickr. 
 
 
(iPhoto can be used to store and edit your photos on a Mac.)
 
Picnik is a free online photo editing tool.  If you are using Flickr and want to edit a photo it will take you to Picnik.  You can also go directly to Picnik to edit and embellish your photos.
 
Classroom Ideas for Using Shared Photos:
  • Create photo banks to use in class projects.  If you use your own photos, you do not have to worry about copyright issues.
  • Collect photos by having everyone use the same  unique tag to describe an event such as a sports activity or a field trip.  When you search Flickr all of the photos with that tag will be displayed.
  • Use Flickr to store photos and avatars for easy access for other online projects and photo activities (Like Big Huge Labs)
  • Consider a group Flickr account for your club or teaching team so that you can create and organize content to be used by all.
  • Create slideshows, PhotoStorys and Animotos Videos using Flickr images.
  • Organize content by subjects for easy access.
  • Create SlideShows for Open House
  • Create a set of photos for each class or student
  • Students can take photos of projects, fieldtrips, etc to share online with parents and others.
  • Adobe Digital Kids Club Using Digital Images for story telling.
 
Things to Consider:
 
  • Just as with Google Images, it is better for the teacher to search and gather appropriate photos using photo sharing sites like Flickr. 
  • If you use other people's photos in your projects, remember to site them in your work.  (model this for students)
  • Consider giving Creative Commons license to your photos so that others may use them.  Creative Commons is a great way for students and teachers to access and use media in their projects.
  • If your photos are public, be sure to have permission to publish for any students in the photos.
Fun Flickr Tools and Mashups:
 
Here are a few fun tools for using online photos.  There are many, many more but you are busy teachers so I am trying to give you small bites at a time....:)

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  • Online Flickr Photo Sharing in Plain English « HeyJude.flv - on Oct 27, 2008 8:41 PM by Martha Thornburgh (version 1)
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