Photo_Editing

= Thing 12- Flickr and Photo Sharing = Flickr has become one of the most popular photo sharing sites. It creates a community where people can not only upload their digital photos online, but also edit and share them with others online. Photos can be stored privately, which allows for safe, electronic storage of your photos. When photos are saved publicly it allows for easy sharing with friends and family.

This is going to be the trickiest site to explore as a group. The site is blocked through the school system, so exploring and using it may require some of us to do this on personal computers. This is not a bad thing! Most of us use digital cameras already, and Flickr is a 'thing' that really allows itself to be incorporated into our personal lives immediately.

Click Here to take a visual tour of Flickr.

"Online Photo Sharing in Plain English" Click Here if you have trouble viewing the video. Includes an introduction to Flickr.

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I encourage you to think about how you could share photos with family, friends AND YOUR STUDENTS. What would your students like to see? What do they need to see? Flickr offers you the chance to explore other people's photos. Keep in mind that some of these images are protected, and NOT public domain. You can find out if a photograph is public domain by clicking on the photograph, scrolling down, and reading the right column. Here it will tell you the status under "License" (Click Here to look at a photo that says "All Rights Reserved." This means that you must get the owner's permission to use this photo. Don't worry about my using it in this example. I am the owner, and you are viewing my daughter, Sydney, and my sister, Lauren, at my baby shower.). This may be an opportunity to teach students a little more about fair use, plagiarism and copyright laws. Have them search out a term like 'volcanoes,' and find a picture they would be allowed to use as an example when presenting a report. For Thing 12 we will be exploring some of the photos available. For safe photos that you can use without infringing upon copyright laws we will be looking at Creative Commons licensing pictures and the public domain ones available through The Library of Congress.

Step One:

 * Click Here to explore The Library of Congress photostream of public domain photos.
 * OR **
 * Click Here to do a search through Comfight. Here you will do a specific search for something of interest to you. There is a box to enter your search term followed by the terms 'Creative Commons: Off.' If you click the word 'Off' it should switch to 'Commercial.' Click it one more time to get to the word 'Only.' Now when you do a search you will get only creative commons licensed photos. As educators this allows us fair use of the photos.

Step Two:
Select a favorite photo that stood out to you in some way. This will be the photo you will include in your blog. **Be sure to save your photo!** You can then upload it into your blog entry in the next thing.

=A Briefing of Thing Twelve: =

When you finish Thing Twelve you should have:


 * Explored Photographs available on Flickr
 * Selected and Saved a favorite photo you found from the Flickr site.

Click Here to go onto Thing Thirteen for a chance to share about Flickr and Photo Sharing. Share how any of these features can be used with students or other educators. Don't forget to include your photo in your blog. Click Here for a guide on Edublogs about uploading images. At the bottom of the page are links to more tips for using Flickr.

(**Is your image too big???***Click Here for a powerpoint presentation on re-sizing your picture on a PC.)