Module 4 - Flickkr Fantastica!!!

Ahhhhh...the amazing world of Flickr! What an intricate find - you can get lost going from link to link learning how to tag, share, make a badge, add comments, search for creative commons and so on!I think that I will spend some more time uploading my photos and on a personal level use this to share photos with my family and friends. I have joined snap fish and when I have time (maybe in the holiday!) I would love to use snap fish to publish a book of all the beautiful photos I have taken at various gardens. Flickr allows you to share photos and decide who sees them...you can link photos to your blog, twitter and facebook (must see how I can link them to my blog!)...create your own website and explore galleries...'The Commons' is public photography and you are invited to describe and comment on other people's photographs.The later is an important tool especially for us as teachers because we struggle with this concept of copyright. We have so many wonderful images and videos at our disposal on this wonderful world wide web, but not all of them are for us to legally use. I would 'photostory' a lot with my Junior English classes and I will be using Flickr to obtain images for them to use. In this way I will know the photos are part of Creative Commons and I can access them without legal or technical restrictions.Tags on photos can allow others to find your photos and they also link different photos together and make it possible to help when you are searching for various photographs. Sharing with others seems to be easy, so it tells me - will have to have a go soon.It is good to see that there are content filters and that students who log on have a restricted view of images and people can put filters on their images. At our College we are continously reminding students about the need for 'cyber safety' and what I love most about Flickr is that it is a completely safe site.