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 libraries are using Flickr for.
Discovery Resources:
- Watch Online Photo Sharing in Plain English (2:50) - from the folks at Common Craft
- Take the Flickr Tour (6 steps)
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View: Popular tags
Interesting photos - Last 7 days
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.
-- OR --
- If you're up to an easy challenge, create a free account in Flickr. See How To Create & Customize a Flickr Account (PDF) if you need help! Next, use NLC's (or your own) digital camera to capture a few pictures of something in your work area--or anywhere at all if you are using your own camera! Upload these to your Flickr account, tag at least one of the images “NLCL2” 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. As mentioned above, 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.
OPTIONAL: If you have a Flickr account, consider joining and contributing photos to a Flickr group. Here are two you might want to try:
So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun!