Flickr..... Like most folks, I imagine, I've had experience e.mailing or uploading photos to various sites, but I had not yet joined Flickr--until now! It was very easy to register on Flickr, and since I have a few photos on my laptop, I was easily able to create an avatar and upload my first photo.
No difficulties. Since I am an avid photographer, I imagine this is a web 2.0 'tool' that I will enjoy and continue to use outside of class. I even found one friend on Flickr already!
This was really fun. I tried to upload my image (at least twice) but it did not work, so I will continue that effort until I succeed.... stay tuned.
I also enjoyed creating a 'librarian trading card,' in the 'mash-ups' part of this activity.
It really is helpful to see the examples that others have created. Having spontaneous or instantaneous visual references accessible via these interactive web applications is great!
Big Huge Labs Mashups are one of my favorite things to do on Flickr. There is also a site called Flickr Storm which allows you to create sets of pictures for your students to use. There is a great teachertube video on it called Using Flickrstorm.
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