Saturday, August 20, 2005

Blogs and photos

One of the best blogging tools is flickr.com which is a photo archiving, tagging and display site. You can upload or download photos from flickr. You can license your work with a range of licenses. By "tagging" work with a descriptive title, you can easily locate photos by topic. For example, at the bloggercon "BlogNashville" held in May 2005, everyone used "blognashville" to tag photos.

Brendan uses flickr to locate images when he needs them. Barbara has used flickr to find a photo to go with a news article. There are now flickr games, too, On the site, they say "Flickr evolved from a game, and is an excellent environment for creative playing. Let's play together!"

Flickr games can be adapted for any classes with a visual emphasis, from photography, poetry, film, advertising, etc.

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