Module 6

Flickr is absolutely one of my favourite tools because I am a bit of a photography buff. I have been using Flickr for a few years now and there are many Flickr tools that people are not aware of. For example, there is Flick River which allows people to view hundreds of photos at the same time without having to click next. You can also view photos according to what lense was used to take the shot. Then there is Flickr Storm which also displays hundreds of thumbnails according to how the photo has been tagged. In fact there are a whole range of third party flickr tools available on the web. http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection/

Flickr is great for using with students because it allows them to be able to access photos from anyplace, anytime and anywhere. When I used Flickr with my Year 3 students I added a badge to the class blog which really was a hyperlink to the photos that I had uploaded for them. Another great point about Flickr is that people can nominate a creative commons license for their photographs. These licences determine whether or not we can use them and to what extend the photo can be changed or redistributed. Teaching students about copyright from a young age is becoming very important particularly now since it is so easy to unintentionally do the wrong thing online.

I haven't seen The Make Stuff page before but I would like to try making a photo book with some of my holiday snaps.