No.+5+Discover+Flickr+or+Picasa

Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site call [|Flickr] to catapult the idea of "sharing" into a full blown online community. Within the past year, Flickr has become 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 a 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] are using Flickr for.

Discovery Resources:
 * [|Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials]
 * [|Flickr Learn More Tour] (6 steps)
 * [|Flickr: Popular Tags]
 * [|Flickr Services] (3rd party applications and mashups)

Discovery Exercise:

In this discovery exercise, you have two options...

a. 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 a 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-- b. If you're up to an easy challenge....create a Free account in Flickr and use your library's digital camera to capture a few pictures of something in your school. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images "DISDLTP20" 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 doin this: through [|Flickr's Blogging Tool] or using [|Blogger's Photo Upload Tool].

So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun and if you're interested in looking at some other photo hosting sites, then check these out:

[|Picasa Web Albums] from Google [|Smugmug] [|Bubbleshare] [|Photobucket]

P.S. A quick word about photo posting ettiquette - When posting **identifiable** photos of other people (especially students) district policy requires that you get the parent's permission before posting their photo in a publicly assessible 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. Take a look at this [|blog posting] for an example of how to cite an image from Flickr.

Magazine cover created with fd's Flickr Toys [|Magazine Cover].