I’ve just finished reading Sartz’s blog where he has been discussing the usefulness of flickr in education (and making bad horse puns!) Flickr is a photo sharing site powered by Yahoo! that allows users to upload and share their photos. Sartz explains quite a few services based on flickr such Taggalaxy, Flickrcc, PhotoSoup, Bubblr and 10 by 10. All interesting sites based on mashing up publicly accessible photos.
Which leads me to one of my flickr favourites flickr-storm. ‘Flickr storm‘ is a simple tool that allows you to search flickr based on a keyword, select the pictures from the results, and then save those results as a web page that your students or friends can access. In addition, it also adds a link to the flickr user as well as the licensing terms. My short bridge example is here.
In actual fact, I hardly ever use Clipart for presentations anymore, preferring to use pictures that are in the public domain or licensed under a creative commons license and making sure that I give attribution to the author. For creative common searches on flickr try http://flickr.com/creativecommons You could even add it as a keyword search in firefox!
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I was going to post about flickr storm but then found your post – so will link to your post instead! Another great tool for finding CC images on flickr is flickr CC at http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php
July 15th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for sharing. I am always looking at better, more efficient ways of using some of the tools I like. I also try to help students and want to encourage them to use CC images. Tools therefore have to be easy and straightforward for them to use. I have just found out about Flickr Storm and this was a great starting point. I shall also link to this post when I put up a post about finding images.