Photo Sharing with Flickr Rob Barth Web 2.0 In The Know

Flickr allows you to…  Upload digital images and videos  Organize your digital media  Assign privacy and permissions  License your creative work  Invite comments  Share with friends, family or the world  Even edit your images online

Introductions & Logistics  Welcome  Restrooms  Breaks  Emergency Exits

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Photo Sharing Agenda  Create a free Flickr account  Upload a digital image  Add a photo title, description and tag  Assign privacy and permissions  Share with a friend  Discuss Creative Commons  Discuss use of Flickr in education

Create Flickr Account  When you sign up for a new Flickr account, you’ll need to sign in with your Yahoo! ID. If you don’t have a Yahoo! Account, you can create a new one by clicking the “Sign Up” link on the Yahoo! sign in page  Create a unique password with at least one number and one symbol

Upload with Flickr There are 5 ways to upload your photos and videos to Flickr  Via the upload web page  Via iPhoto, Apertur, or Windows XP plugins  Via  Via various free third-party programs  Via the Flickr Uploadr

Free Flickr Account  Upload 100 MB of photos each calendar month (10 MB per photo)  3 Sets  Post any of your photos in up to 10 group pools

Flickr Pro Account  $24.95 per year, can be given as gift  Unlimited uploads and storage  Unlimited sets and collections  Access to original files  Stats on your account  Ad-free browsing and sharing  Maximum 20 MB per photo

File Sizes or File Types  Flickr supports JPEGs, non-animated GIFs, and PNGs  You can also upload TIFFs and some others, but will be converted to JPEG  Published photos are compressed and resized  Pro account stores originals

Resources  Dennis Curtin’s A Short Course in Pixels provides further discussion about digital images. Specifically, this website will provide you with technical information about sensors, pixels and image sizes.  

Upload  Select photos and videos  Select privacy  Upload  Add titles, descriptions, tags or add to a set  Save

Privacy  Select Private or Public  Within Private you can select friends, family or both  Optional settings include safety level, content type and ability to hide images from public searches

Tags  Tags are one word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks to help you organize and remember them  Thin of them as KEYWORDS

Tags Continued  Do not form a hierarchy  Flexible  Choose yourself  No spaces allowed, i.e. Kansas City  Limited to 75 tags per photo

The Organizr  Sets are grouping of photos and videos that you can organize around a certain theme, such as My Africa Trip  Collections are a grouping of Sets so you can organize around grander themes  The Organizr is where both Collections and Sets are created.

The Organizr Cont.  The Organizr allows you to perform common tasks on large batches of photos and videos, such as tagging, changing permissions, or editing timestamps.

Copyright & Creative Commons  In most parts of the world, including the U.S., you are automatically granted copyrights to your photos you own  The nonprofit Creative Commons offers six default licenses as an alternative to full copyright to meet your needs   Choose license within Flickr 

Creative Commons Cont.  The ability to search photographs and videos with a Creative Commons license is very valuable for teachers. I have located a Powerpoint to help teachers search images in Flickr with a CC license  to-find-flickr-photos-with-a-creative- commons-license-presentation/

Maps and Geotagging  You can geotag your photos (in Organizr) to show where you took them, or you can just browse around the world and see where other people have been and what they saw  Flickr has added a map of the world 

Geotagging Cont.  Geotagging is the art of adding location information to things like a photo. You can geotag your photos using Organizr by dragging and dropping them on to the map where you took them.  To geotag a photo just click “Add to your map” on the photo page

Geotagging Cont.  Watch the screencast on Flickr about geotagging and mapping features.  l1/ l1/ l1/  Geoprivacy is separate from photo privacy so everyone does not need to know where you took your photo

Sharing Photos  Blog any of your own public photos  Set up your own Flickr web address and share with all your friends  , link, blog, or get the HTML code to embed pictures using the “Share this…” button that’s located top right of your browser window

Sharing Cont.  Send individual photos to people, either as attachments to an or as a link to a Flickr page  Make a Flickr badge for your website  Add tags to your photos so anyone searching the Flickr collection can find them  Add your photos to a group

Sharing – Guest Pass  Anyone can see your public photos, whether they are a Flickr member or not.  If you want to share private photos with people, use a Guest Pass.  The “Contacts” tab on Flickr contains your contact information for easy editing

A Word About Comments  Most of the time anyone can comment on your digital images unless you specify otherwise in your default settings.  When you are looking at a photo or video, you can also click the “Privacy” link under Additional Information  Organizr can change permissions

Comments Cont.  If someone leaves a comment that you don’t like, you can delete it.  You can block a person from commenting on your account.  When someone leaves a comment, you can see it on your homepage under “Recent Activity”

Picnik and Photo Editing  Picnik is an API, Application Program Interface. Once installed, you can edit your photos online.   To get started using Picnik, just click on the “Edit Photo” button on a photo’s main page.  Free with Free or Pro account

Flickr for Education  Karen Montgomery has outstanding resources available for educators on her website.  Photo Sharing with Flickr Photo Sharing with Flickr Photo Sharing with Flickr  Or

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Wrap-Up  Contact Information For Rob Barth  Website,  ,  Cellular Phone,  Thank you to Shannon and the Poplar Bluff Public Library!