A Flickr Tutorial for Teachers This Tutorial will show you how to: Sign Up for a Flickr account Upload, tag, share, and work with your images Search for Creative Commons-licensed images for your teaching Search for historical and cultural images in The Commons for your teaching View a slideshow of your work, your student’s work, or your favorite images from your searches
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A Flickr Tutorial for Teachers
This Tutorial will show you how to: Sign Up for a Flickr account Upload, tag, share, and work with your images Search for Creative Commons-licensed images for your teaching Search for historical and cultural images in The Commons for your teaching View a slideshow of your work, your student’s work, or your favorite images
Select your privacy settings– visible only to you? Friends? Family?
Everyone? You choose.
Finished!Let’s add a
description.
Rename your photo and write a
description if you like.
Add tags here, words that you or
others might use to describe or find
your picture.
Create a new set here (a set is a label such as
‘Kitties’ or ‘Class Project’ that you want to add this
photo and others into to create a
group).
Tags are separated by commas. When you are done click
Add.
New title and
description.
You created a new set called Kitties! When you are done click
Create Set.
Scroll down and click
Save.
You uploaded
your photo. Nice work!
Notice we are now in Your Photostream.
Next step—let’s share and play
with our photo.
Sharing your photo is easy. If you click on
Share, you get a link to the photo. You can also
instantly share it on Facebook and Twitter.
People you let view your photos can make comments. Timmerschester thinks Charlie is
“So cute!” You can encourage students to comment on each other’s photos.
Click on the Actions pull down menu to do lots more! You can view photos in all sizes, download them to
another computer (For example, I uploaded
photos of a wedding in Cleveland and a friend downloaded them in
England—no problem), order prints and do basic image editing with them.
Next we’ll begin searching for images that other people
have added to Flickr.
Type your search terms here and click Search, or click the Search button first to
bring up the full Search page.
Click here to open this full Search page.Type in your
search terms and click Search.
Do you want to search only your photographs? Your friends photos? Or everyone’s? Use the pull down menu to choose.
You just did a search for the word ‘orange’
for Everyone’s Uploads. These are
the results. Your orange cat is in here, and so are thousands
of other photos tagged ‘orange’.
However, remember that not all photos
here are available for your use. Let’s find images that we can use without worry.
Just what I’m looking for when
I’m teaching!
Many Flickr
members allow
others to use their work for
free under some
version of the
Creative Commons license. This is
great for teachers!
To search for Creative Commons licensed
photos, go back to the full Search page and click on
the Advanced Search button.
Type your search terms, scroll to the bottom of the page
and click ‘Only Search within
Creative Commons-licensed
content.’
Look! Lots of results for
‘orange’ and all of these images are available for
use under a Creative
Commons license. Cool!
If you find an photo you like, click on the thumbnail to view a larger image and then click
on the Favorite star. Now you can find this image easily later on.
Next we’ll go back to your homepage and search another
area of Flickr called The Commons.
Go to your homepage and pull down the Explore menu and Select
The Commons
Notice any recent activity on your photos and the photos you have
commented on can be seen on your homepage.
Definitional notes: Creative Commons is a type of licensing assigned by the creator of a work that allows for broader use possibilities than exist with the standard "all rights reserved" full copyright.The Commons is a site within Flickr to which many museums and archives have contributed public domain images for use and comment.
Museums and
archives from all over the
world contribute photos to
The Commons.
You can use these images for
your teaching.
Search The Commons
here.
Searching The Commons for the
term ‘baseball’ brought up many
historic images you could use as
prompts for a class. Save as Favorites any images you would like to go
back to later.
Lastly, your students can now view your selected Favorites and any
photos you’ve uploaded as a slideshow.
Go to the You drop down menu and select Your
Favorites OR
click on one of your own named sets of photos to the right. This set is called Kitties!
If you selected Your Favorites, you will go to a page showing all of your favorites. Click on Light Box to view
these as a slideshow.
Nice.
If you selected one of your named sets, you will go to a
page showing all of the pictures in your set. Click
on Slideshow.
Adorable.
Once you've finished the tutorial, please create your own Flickr account. Upload a few photographs and
play! Post a link to it (make sure your photos are public) on my Flickr Tools page on Blackboard Learn and
provide one example of how you might use Flickr in your own teaching.
Thanks!
Whew! There are many, many more things you can do with your Flickr
account as a teacher, but hopefully this tutorial will help you feel comfortable getting started.
Tutorial by Edith Serkownek. If you have any questions,