Photos and images#3. Take some digital photos and post one on your blog. Borrow a digital camera from your school if you don't have your own.
Post the photos on your blog using Blogger's photo upload feature.
#4. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.Watch the following video and create an account for yourself.
Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Within the past year, Flickr has becoming the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site.
For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries (list also here) are using Flickr for.
Discovery Resources: Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
Flickr: Popular tagsInteresting- Last 7 daysFlickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups) and let’s not forget to look at some other libraries
Discovery Exercise:In this discovery exercise, you have two options…Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or if you create an Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool.
Post the photos on your blog using Blogger's photo upload feature.
#4. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.Watch the following video and create an account for yourself.
Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Within the past year, Flickr has becoming the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site.
For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries (list also here) are using Flickr for.
Discovery Resources: Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
Flickr: Popular tagsInteresting- Last 7 daysFlickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups) and let’s not forget to look at some other libraries
Discovery Exercise:In this discovery exercise, you have two options…Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or if you create an Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool.
-- OR --Of if you’re up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use your digital camera to capture a few pictures of something you did this summer. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images,and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this; through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature. Here is a picture of two proud parents at Emily's Baylor graduation. Go Bears!
PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.
#5. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites, and create some mashupsLike many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and mashups* that use Flickr images.Here are just a sampling of a few …
Mappr - take Flickr images and allows you to paste them on a map
Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
Montagr – create a photo mosaics from photos found on Flickr.
Discover more mashups, web apps, and Flickr tools.
Discovery Exercise:Your discovery exercise for this “thing” is to:
1. Explore some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools that are out there.
2. Create a blog post about one that intrigues you. Personally one of my very favorite tools is mosaickr
So have some fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps. And if you up to the challenge while you’re add it, why not create a Mosaick of your own. :)*
PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.
#5. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites, and create some mashupsLike many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and mashups* that use Flickr images.Here are just a sampling of a few …
Mappr - take Flickr images and allows you to paste them on a map
Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
Montagr – create a photo mosaics from photos found on Flickr.
Discover more mashups, web apps, and Flickr tools.
Discovery Exercise:Your discovery exercise for this “thing” is to:
1. Explore some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools that are out there.
2. Create a blog post about one that intrigues you. Personally one of my very favorite tools is mosaickr
So have some fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps. And if you up to the challenge while you’re add it, why not create a Mosaick of your own. :)*
Mashup Note: Wikipedia offers some great articles that explain mashups. Basically they are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and mash it up with another (like a map) In this example, you get Mappr (http://mappr.com/)
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