Intro to Flickr ALA presentation for BFS by vivian evans 17th aug 2012

A picture tells a thousand words:

CC FlickR image by jackdot101

using FlickR for image sharing and social networking

Today’s Focus on Flickr

• What is FlickR?

• FlickR’s key features

• How to Join and Upload images

• What is Tagging & why is it useful

• What Vivian loves about Flickr

• Sourcing Images – can you use any image on the

internet?

• Creative Commons

• Exploring the Potential for Seniors

Please note this presentation &

related resources are available on

http://bfsv.wikispaces.com/flickr

Vivian Evans would like

to acknowledge that this

presentation is adapted

from a PowerPoint

created by Robyn Jay

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

Do you have to sign up to Flickr?

NO! You can explore and see all the

public images on Flickr without joining.

Yes – You will if you want to upload

images and comment on others

Have you already got a Facebook or

Google account?

Then use this feature to save you

remembering more passwords

Go to http://www.flickr.com/tour?f=hp#section=upload

for info & links to the various tools and applications

Flickr Up Loader

Note Privacy

settings available

to you

License

Tags

Organisation

and sharing

Date

Photographer

CC FlickR image by Vern

Hart

Title and

description

Tagging What are tags?

You can give your photos and videos a

"tag", which is like a keyword or category

label. Tags help you find photos and videos

which have something in common. In Flickr

you can assign up to 75 tags to each photo

or video.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

What tags would you give this image?

htt

p://w

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.flic

kr.

co

m/p

ho

tos/v

ive

va

ns/2

87

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/

What I love about FlickR

Storage, backup,

easy to share,

access anywhere,

easy to find

…I can see the

latest on my

account in one

glance

And manage my

account

Discovery

Connection

By Vivevans

Sharing, acknowledgement,

appreciation

Easily embed slide shows of

sets into websites

…yo

u m

igh

t jo

in a

gro

up

Source: http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/7785520876/in/photostream

Are you after an image?

• don’t reinvent the wheel!

CC

Flic

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No need to reinvent the wheel!

Can you use any image you find on the internet?

www.flickr.com

FlickR offers over 160 million images with a

Creative Commons license

Filter for Creative

Commons images

image: screengrab from creativecommons.org

See Video Intro to Creative Commons

http://blip.tv/creative-commons/wanna-work-

together-289871

Search for a term and then click the advanced search option

Scroll to the bottom and

tick the Creative

Commons

Content option.

Then search again

http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net

How to acknowledge the work of others

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vernhart/910778661/

CC FlickR image by Vern Hart

For example: http://bighugelabs.com/

Other tools to play with your images

All Smaller images on this page created using BigHuge labs

by Vivevans

So how could you use FlickR

images with BFS Kiosks?

Your ideas?

Ideas for Engaging in Flickr Explore Share Create Connect

Explore topics

themes places

Create sets of an

event e.g.

Opening, 100 year

birthday

Collaborative

Digital stories on

Voicethreads

Join or Create a

group

Stimulation for

discussion

Collection of past

photos

Digital stories Photographic

Scavenger hunts

Contribute to the

photographic

collections in the

Commons

Photos with

themes e.g.

Posters or fliers

with eye catching

imagery

With relatives who

have photos on

flickr & for them to

see you!

Photography as a

activity

Favourite photos

that you love

Have fun with

images - jigsaws

Add comments to

others photos

Embed

slideshows in

websites

So much more... Join our discussion on http://bfsv.wikispaces.com/flickr

Resources

• www.flickr.com

• http://bfsv.wikispaces.com/flickr

Questions?

“Thanks for your active engagement”

Vivian Evans

NSW Networker BFS

vevans@ala.asn.au