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Flickr - Burks Oakley

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Name of Web 2.0 Application:  Flickr

URL: http://www.flickr.com/


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application.

In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means.


Flickr allows photos to be tagged (tagging is a Web 2.0 technology) and then searched by the tags.

Flickr has an RSS feed, so that the user can subscribe to any number of fees.  For example, photos tagged with Iraq.

One interesting feature about tagging photos is called Geotagging, where it is possible to tag an image with latitude and longitude information.  For example, here is a geotagged photo of Burks Oakley in Glacier Bay, Alaska.


Use of the Web 2.0 Application in Teaching and Learning:

Flickr would be useful in my online class.  Students could upload pictures of themselves, their families, their neighborhoods, etc. - this would help to personalize the class.  I could see that a course in political studies would benefit from the RSS of photos tagged with Iraq or with Washington, DC.  I could see that we could structure an online discussion around a photo in Flickr.  Students could post photos to Flickr and then link to them in their blog postings.  Of course, students in a graphic arts class could upload photos of their work to Flickr - which then could lead to online discussions.  I could create a group in Flickr (see: http://www.flickr.com/groups/) and have everyone in the class join the group - and the Flickr groups include a discussion board for dialogue.

 

In doing a Google search for how to use Flickr in college teaching, I found additional ideas:

  • Ask students to record and reflect on their research by storing images in blogs or sets;
  • Encourage students to set up networks to see what their classmates are doing;
  • Encourage students to subscribe to groups and pools to increase their exposure to a subject by viewing a wide range of images

I guess we could even have a discussion of digital copyright in dealing with images that others have posted to Flickr.

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