Darrins Flickr Presentation

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Flickr has many uses in the classroom. Educators can use Flickr as a photo management tool and photo sharing tool. Here a Grade 5 educator shares some Flickr experiences...

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Presented ByDarrin Schumacher

12/02/2009

• http://www.flickr.com/

• http://screenr.com/PEB

Field trip for our media unit. We took some photos relating to media around Young Tong area.

They all brought their cameras to me. I uploaded them to flickr. Shared the link. The students used the photos to do a project.

Blogs – all our class photos have been uploaded.

http://gsiscommunity.net/janiey200786/2009/11/04/gyenggi-kuc-ak-do/

Edline – Good way to show parents some of our photos from the class, using edline

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980/

Sets http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrinschumacher/sets/

Groups http://www.flickr.com/groups/ Uploading–can use Flickr.com, iPhoto is

easier, upload from Batch Organizing

Our class photos are owned by us. So we aren’t breaking any copyright laws.

The students sharing their photos. They get a real buzz when they see a photo that they have taken used in a blog.

Ease of uploading from iphoto. (Must make photos public for use on edline.)

Share a link, rather than a photo.

Some suggestions: http://blogs.ibo.org/opls/2007/09/10/teaching-and-

learning-with-flickr/

Make the photos public Rotate the photos before you upload. (You

can do it on flickr, but it is easier in iphoto)

Lastly, Photosharing is easy….and useful