Week 3: Photos & Images

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 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 at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat ways that people are using Flickr.

Discovery Resources:

Start here (click Play):




Flickr Learn More tour (click on Start the Magical Feature Tour. Remember, you don't need to read every word!)
Flickr Video Tutorial (7:19)

A few ways to find images:
Popular tags
Interesting- Last 7 days

Discovery Exercise:

In this discovery exercise, you have two options…

1. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Add this image to your blog. 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.
   
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2. If you're up to a challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use the PS digital camera (in the tech closet) to capture a few pictures of something. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “Primary Source” 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.

So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun.

Important Note
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 in your blog photos taken by someone else.