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= = =Week 3- Photos And Images (3 activities) = January 17-21 = Activity 4 - Flickr=

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Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Within the past year, Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site.

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 teachers are using Flickr for.

=** Discovery Resources: **=
 * Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)
 * Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
 * Flickr: Popular tags
 * Interesting- Last 7 days
 * Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups)

=** Discovery Exercise: **= In this discovery exercise, you have two options… -- OR --
 * 1) Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Right click on the image and save it in you’re My Pictures folder.
 * 2) Be sure to include the link to the image by copying the image URL (right click on image) or, if you create a Flickr account (you will need a Yahoo email account),
 * 3) you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post.
 * 1) If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in [|Flickr] and use a digital camera to capture a few pictures of something interesting. Upload these to your
 * 2) Flickr account and tag all your images. Be sure to mark the album public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the
 * 3) i mage in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using right clicking on the image.

So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun!

PS: A quick word about **photo posting etiquette **- When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before  posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Remember to check FOIP on using student images. 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.

= Activity 5 - Flickr Fun=

Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and <span style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;">mashups * that use Flickr images. Here are just a sampling of a few …
 * Mappr <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- allows you to take Flickr images and paste them on a map
 * Flickr Color Pickr <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
 * Montagr <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">– create a photo mosaic from photos found on Flickr.

Discover more mashups <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">, web apps <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">, and Flickr tools <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">.

= Discovery Exercise: = Your discovery exercise for this “thing” is to:
 * 1) Explore some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools that are out there.
 * 2) Create a blog post about one that intrigues you.

So have some fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps!

and mash it up with another (like a map). In this example, you get Mappr (http://mappr.com).
 * Mashup Note: Wikipedia <span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">offers some great articles that explain mashups. Basically they are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr)

Image created with Spell With Flickr

= Activity 6 - Blog About Technology = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">So far you have looked at several new tools that you can use in your classroom. For your final activity of the week create a post and reflect on the impact of technology in the classroom. If you are a newer teacher (less than 10 years experience) how do you think technology is going to change teaching over the course of your career? If you have been around a while (more than 10 years experience) how has technology changed your way of teaching since you started? What is the impact of technology on learning? (Also if you are participating in the project with others, be sure to visit their blogs and comments. Remember, Web 2.0 is all about collaboration!)

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