12.26.2008

Thing 7. Photo & Images

Time for some fun. Flickr, SmugMug, Picasa, Photobucket, and other sites offer online storage for photos. You can put your images on Facebook and MySpace, of course, but these services offer some other features. And since you have your privacy settings on "myface" set so only your invited friends can see them, you may want another service to share other photos with family, friends, team mates, and others. As always, be smart about what you post and how you identify people and places in the photos.

Photo-sharing Web sites have been around for quite awhile, in Internet terms. Flickr (now owned by Yahoo) took the idea of photo sharing and turned it into an online community. Flickr (and others) allows users to upload their photos and then share them with family, friends, or the world. Users can “tag” photos with descriptive words and phrases--what librarians would call keywords—to help users identify and search for photos. Here is a photo from Flickr tagged Minnehaha Academy:

by aaron landry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/s4xton/432350075/
(What's this?)


First watch the Common Craft video "Online Photosharing in Plain English." Then choose
 A.
1. Take a good look around Flickr and find an interesting image that you want to blog about. You can explore Flickr photos, search the tags, view various groups, and more without a Flickr account.
2. Use any keyword(s) (baseball, cats, Minnehaha, Minnehaha Academy whatever…) to find photos with those tags. When you find an interesting image or group, comment on your experience finding images, using Flickr, and anything else related to the exercise.
3. Read this from Blogger about using images. Then, following those guidelines, upload the image to your blog, if the photographer lets you download or link to her photos (be sure to credit the photographer). Don't forget to include a link to the image in the post.

--OR-- the more fun option B.

1. Create a Free Account in Flickr (note that Flickr is now part of Yahoo! If you have a Yahoo! account for email or MyYahoo!, log in with that.).
2. Then take a few pictures of something around school.
3. Upload these to your new Flickr account and tag at least one of the images with MA On a Stick. Be sure to mark the photo public.
4. Add one or more of your images to your blog. You can add the image in one of two ways:
  • Flickr's blogging tool (need a Flickr account to see the button) lets you click the Blog This button (right above the picture) and add any public photo on Flickr to your blog. Be sure to give credit to the photographer, if it is not your photo.
  • Blogger's photo upload feature lets you add photos from your computer or from the Web and choose the placement in the blog post. Click the little photo icon in the toolbar on the New Post page—it is in the row of tools above the post box. Follow the instructions in the pop up box.
Keep in mind that 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 to your Flickr account 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.

Resources More ways to explore: Blog Prompts
Share your Flickr-ing thoughts:
  • How might you use Flickr ?
  • Do you use Flickr or another photo hosting service? Which one? How does it compare to Flickr?
  • How do you feel about having your photos public (note that you can mark your Flickr photos private, too)--any concerns?
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