Mission Possible #4: Flickr

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Mission Possible #4: Flickr

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to Share your visual world (as well as the Ultra-Aesome Maricopa Tech 2009) via Flickr.

As you move from session to session at the Maricopa Tech conference, you will surely see some cool tech in action. You will pull your camera from it’s case or flip open your camera phone because your friends at home just won’t believe it if you don’t have proof. Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to shoot photos and short videos of the rich plethora of information obtained at the conference using a photo repository tool called Flickr.

Flickr, owned by Yahoo, wants to help people make their content available to the people who matter to them. Maybe those people are your friends who can’t believe you get to meet Intellagirl in person, or your Mom who lives across the country and never sees your 4 year old who just happens to be her only grandchild. Flickr also helps us all organize the world’s photos and videos in new and exciting words. Want to go camping at Oak Flats Campground, then type that phrase into Flickr and Voila! photos of people camping there. Or you want to buy that new Canon 40D dslr, you can search for pictures taken with that same model camera!

Check out this short YouTube video for more Flickr goodness.

As educators, Flickr rocks! You can search through tens of thousands to millions of Creative Commons safe images online without breaking copyright. Check out this short video made especially for You by Me!

Annotation:
In the 21st Century, the concept of “composition” has moved beyond the realm of print. Could you imagine annotating a photo? In Flickr, you can! Check out this awesome (completely over the top) example of a work bag dumped on the floor, photographed and then annotated in Flickr. Go ahead, just click here. It will boggle your mind.

Now that I’ve totally impressed you, are you ready for some real fun? Your first Flickr challenge it to pick up your closest digital camera and take a picture of your computer. Go for it. If you’ve got cool stickers on the case, take a shot. I did. Here’s mine and two others. No cool stickers? How about a screenshot of your desktop? Jumbled icons and all… Yep, I got a shot of that, too.

What's on your computer?

Groups:
Flickr members create “groups” around similar ideas, hobbies, interests, etc… Our Flickr group is “MaricopaTech“, and I am personally inviting you to join our group in Flickr.

How to:

Before the Conference

1. From the web, go to http://www.flickr.com
2. Create a free account (free accounts allow 200 uploads of images or short videos; pay accounts [$24.95/yr] has unlimited uploads) Don’t believe me? Check out Alan Levine’s photostream. He has a not so paltry 10,039 photos as of this writing!
3. Play with Flickr by uploading some pictures.
4. Upload that awesome photo of your computer you just took.
5. Tag it “Maricopa Tech” and also add it to the “Maricopa Tech” Flickr group (see link above!)

At the Conference

1. Shoot pictures of all the coolness
2. Upload them to Flickr
3. Add them to the Flickr group
4. Enjoy!

That is your mission. This message will not self destruct, instead it will linger forever as a ghost on the web.

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February 24, 2009 · Filed Under Web 2.0

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  1. Flickr & finding “safe” Creative Commons images | Teacher 2.0 on February 24th, 2009 11:15 pm

    [...] As part of my work with MaricopaTech, I recently blogged on Flickr and included a video I made of how to search Flickr for Creative Commons license images. Check out my post here. [...]

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