Photo+Sharing

Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called [|Flickr] (now owned by Yahoo) to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr uses "tags" or what we would call keywords to help identify and search for photos.

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 things that people and other [|libraries] (list also [|here]) are creating thanks to Flickr.

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.
 * Discovery Exercise:**

PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) 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 photos taken by someone else in your blog.

Flickr Tour: http://www.flickr.com/tour/ Cool things to do with photos uploaded to Flickr: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/


 * Curriculum Connections: **
 * **Idea #1: Use Flickr toys to make a magazine cover.** Many classes make their own magazine. This would be perfect! Example for covers: "Crusade Times," "Heading West," or "Genetics Today." Students could create a magazine cover and headlines for a famous person, historical event, or story character.
 * **Idea #2: Create trading card sets.** Liven up 5th grade mission projects, annual "animal" or "state" reports, and other topics that are ripe for change. Each student could create a card or student groups could design their own trading card pack. Trading the cards can be a fun game, but they can also be useful for recommended reading, books, illustrators, authors, and historical bios/dates. How would you use them? How about using them as Flash cards for vocabulary, periodical table, foreign language or ELL.