Photos, Images and Play

The photo sharing community continues to expand daily. Flickr, which is now owned by Yahoo, uses "tags" or what are also known as keywords to help identify and locate photos. Explore Flick'r and create an account for yourself. Remember to record your password and login information in a secure place.

1. Explore Flickr
Take their online tour. If you create your own account and you have digital camera images, try to upload these to your Flickr account.

2. Create a blog entry
Create a post in your blog about your chosen photo and your experience exploring Flickr. Upload the image to your post. You can do this either of two ways: using Flickr's blogging tool
or the Blogger's photo upload tool.

3. Explore Picasa Web Albums
Read and learn about this web tool from Google. Remember photo ethics regarding permission before posting minor's images online. In addition, never upload photos that weren't taken by you without the photographer's permission and then give credit to your source.

4. Explore Online Image Applications
Many tools have been created using programming interfaces and Flickr images to create new application.

• Mappr uses Flickr images and allows you to create a map
  
• Montagr will create a photo mosaic with images you found on Flickr

5. Play with Online Image Generators
Generators are websites where you can quickly and easily manipulate the images. Enjoy using some of the image generators and create one for your blog. Adding them to your blog is as simple as copying and pasting the code that the page provides. Sometimes you may wish to save it on your hard drive first.

• Comic Strip Generator
• Image Chef
• FD Flickr Toys
• Generator Blog

6. Curriculum Connections
Use your blog post to share your ideas about using the images that you have generated with these tools. Generate an image for your bulletin board, web site, or newsletter!