I must say, I spent an hour playing with my avatar from last week's lesson before I even got to Flickr which is the main reason I sat down at the computer in the first place!! I am excited to report that I successfully added my yahoo avatar to my Moodle page. A small fete but one that make the page a little more fun and gave me some time to play with the html code in both tools. Now onto Flickr.
Flickr has been a great tool for me to lift (with permission) students' graduation photos for promo movies I had to develop for my work. I use the tags to locate our area or the kids' give me the Flickr URL. I have not utilized Flickr groups todate.
The first task I completed was to explore Jacksonville, FL, photos on Flickr because we plan to visit my son there next week. Before I knew it, another 30 minutes passed because there were so many interesting photos to look at as well as a default map that displayed when I keyed in the address. The site of one of the photo groups I viewed is http://www.panoramio.com/photo/491479
. I then explored the library projects on Flickr--there are so many creative people!!
I created a Flickr account and uploaded three vacation pictures as a trial run. My link is http://www.flickr.com/photos/28678602@N03/?saved=1.
I think it is so important to honor the privacy of subjects in your pictures and I appreciated the reminder written about "photo posting ettiquette" in the Web 20 tutorial instructions. That being said, this is such a fabulous way to learn in the classroom--even as a discussion starter for students to guess where a certain picture was taken if learning about a region in the classroom.
Learning more about Flickr was delightful! Looking forward to my next stop on the tour.
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