Once you have the photo uploaded to Flickr and tagged, create a post in your blog about your photo and Flickr experience. Will you use Flickr for classroom, library or personal photos, or in some other way? How? Have you ever used another photo hosting service besides Flickr? Which one? How do the two compare? How do you feel about having your photos in a public place (note that you can mark your photos private too) -- any concerns?
Today I learned that Flickr.com can be very fun and entertaining. I enjoyed tagging my photos with obvious and silly tags. I like to search the pictures and see what others have posted. I think Flickr is very user friendly. Everything is step by step and the upload process was surprisingly fast.
I'm unsure about using Flickr in the classroom. I, as the teacher, could use it to find pictures that fits a lesson or to make a game, but I wouldn't allow a group of Elementary students to search through Flickr photo or post them. People can post just about anything on Flickr. You never know if your students will run across something inappropriate for their age level. I also would not want my students to post photos. Even though you can make them private, it is to risky and difficult to make sure every student is making their photos private. I would not feel comfortable letting strangers view student photos.
I have only used one other photo site before, Photobucket. I was addicted to photobucket for about the first week, but it seems to be very complicating and slow. Flickr has a way to upload and edit your pictures easily and quickly.
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