Module 4

I was very interested in learning about the "worlds best online photo management and sharing application"- that is Flickr! Watching the Atomic Learning tutorials, setting up my Flickr account and exploring the application was easy in some ways and hard in others. It was easy in that I already have experience in editing, uploading, and organising photos through using i photo and facebook, though it was hard because I am so use to these other applications that it was a bit of an effort to re-learn similar processes using a different application. I love all of the things you can do in the "make stuff" section, however it was very similar to the things that I have already created on i photo previously (calenders, photo books, slideshows etc), so I didn't spend too much time on it.

At first when I found out that you have a limited amount of photos you can upload and only can create 3 sets with the free account and that no-one I know actually uses Flickr, I was a bit put off. But when I learnt about joining groups and how to search for photos it became more clear to me what the benefits of Flickr are. I have joined teaching and dancing groups that have photos I am interested in (hence the photo). Using Flickr- through advanced search and choosing 'only creative common licensed content', we are basically able to access so much image content for free. I have often gone to use images off google for various things in the classroom but couldn't due to restricted access/ copyright. Flickr can be used in the classroom in many creative ways like as visual stimulus for writing, or students using it to create photo stories or posters without child safety or copyright concerns . I really liked the "interestingness" tab in the image search as well.