Flickr

Flickr is a free, web-based application where you can upload photos and explore others’ photos. With your own photos you can add comments (even directly on a highlighted section of the photo). This can help you point out interesting features within a photo. You can also share photos with selected people in your contacts (instead of having to share with all or none) or make your photos available for public viewing. You can organize the photos into sets and sets into collections.

With public photos there are a lot of options. Possibly, one of the most useful is the Commons. This contains archives of public photo collections such as the Library of Congress photo collection. These photos have no copy right restrictions. There is also a photo stream from the White House which is government work that can be used for non-commercial uses. You can also join groups that have a common interest. All photos have specific information about the use of the photo determined by the person or organization that uploaded it.

Click on the link below and then “Start the tour” on the website to learn more about Flickr. At the end of the tour you will be asked to create an account (or click “Sign Up” on Flickr’s homepage). If you have a yahoo account, simply enter your e-mail and password, click sign-in, and create your username. You can also use your Google or Facebook account to log in by clicking on those links. Finally, if you don’t have the above accounts or wish not to use them you can sign up for a new Yahoo account to use for your Flickr account by clicking on the “Create New Account” link.

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Once you have taken the tour and created an account, your assignment is to find one copy right restricted photo, one photo without known copy right restrictions, and one photo with only attribution, non-commercial, and/or share alike requirements. The photos can be for an upcoming lesson plan or photos that pertain to your text book entry subject. Then add these photos to a gallery. To learn more on how to complete these tasks click on the links below. Note: Some copy right restricted photos are unable to be added to your gallery (this is chosen by the owner of the photo) and will simply not show up in your gallery after you have added it.

This link is a video of how to search on Flickr. [] This link is a video of how to search for non-copy righted material. [] This link is a video of how to search for some rights reserved material. [] This link is a video of how to add to a gallery and use a gallery. [] If you have trouble viewing the videos, click on the play button and then pause the video and allow it to download before playing it.