Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is recognised as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site.For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other universities are using Flickr for.
Discovery Resources:
Flickr Learn More tour (8 steps)
Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
Flickr: Popular tags and Interesting - Last 7 days
Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups)
Discovery Exercise:
In this discovery exercise, you have two options…
- Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool.
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- If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera to capture a few pictures of something that interests you. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “monash23” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature.
So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. If you are familiar with a different online photo sharing site (other than Flickr), then please let us know via your blog, and include a link so that we can all learn from your experience.
PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog. The photo of Geelong celebrating their AFL premiership victory on the weekend that I have included above has been licensed by the photographer under Creative Commons - in other words, I have his permission to use it here!
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At risk of asking a stupid question.. If in Flickr, it gives you the option to post the image to your blog, am I correct in assuming that it is OK to post the image to your blog without infringing on any copyright?
ReplyDeleteI mean, the title of the image comes across with it and it all links back to the original Flickr page and obviously I don’t take credit for the image...
A good question, Tapps!
ReplyDeleteNo - it's dangerous to assume that it's OK, just because something's technically possible. It's my understanding that, unless the copyright owner has explicitly allowed reposting (such as licensing under Creative Commons), then you are not permitted to use it.
Copyright law sucks. That;s why Creative Commons was introduced. Here's a talk at TED recently by Larry Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, which should be compulsory viewing for EVERYBODY playing with new media. (19 minutes).