Why shouldn't I give Flickr the Flick ?
With respect to sharing photos with anyone other than personal friends, I can't understand the enthusiasm. How many times have we been bored by looking at relatives albums, let alone those of complete strangers. I guess it's symptomatic of the voyeuristic nature of the web and the yearning for some semblance of notoriety. Then again I did get distracted by looking at weimaraner photos myself. And I can see Flickr being a great forum for photographers, and a source of images for educational use.
Being cognisant of the fact that up until now I'd had many negative issues raised about previous modules, I thought the best way to address this task was to begin with the positive, However, when signing up for a second Yahoo account (there goes the digital footprint growing as my previous account is somewhere there in cyberspace with my username a dim dark mystery) I became annoyed with the invasive questions. Yahoo wanted my age, my birth date, and my postcode. Why ? So they could provide a wonderful service to me?
A. By knowing my postcode I can be provided with content that is relevant to where I live. Is the assumption that I'm not able to find this by myself?
B.By knowing my birthday I can be provided with a better experience (Is Brad Pitt going to send me a present ?)
Being cognisant of the fact that up until now I'd had many negative issues raised about previous modules, I thought the best way to address this task was to begin with the positive, However, when signing up for a second Yahoo account (there goes the digital footprint growing as my previous account is somewhere there in cyberspace with my username a dim dark mystery) I became annoyed with the invasive questions. Yahoo wanted my age, my birth date, and my postcode. Why ? So they could provide a wonderful service to me?
A. By knowing my postcode I can be provided with content that is relevant to where I live. Is the assumption that I'm not able to find this by myself?
B.By knowing my birthday I can be provided with a better experience (Is Brad Pitt going to send me a present ?)
C. By Importing my friends email addresses I can contact them easily ( why would I want to have friend's email addresses in yet another address book ?)
I don't think so.
Parents of children under the age of 13 who wish to allow their children access to the Yahoo! Services must create a Yahoo! Family Account. Having said this, there is no way that Yahoo can verify the D.O.B anyway so why have it ? Thank goodness it's not necessary to provide a driver's licence or otherwise I would never have been able to sign up and then where would this module go ! Enough about Yahoo.
Finally joined up using my pseudonym and was feeeling impressed when reading the group guidelines. Some great advice on how to deal with trolls or unwelcome people, but was intrigued by their comment regarding porn.
When you start adding photos to your Flickr page, a photostream is created by default. These images can be organised by user selected subject, location or label. Uploade photos are set as Public however you can alter this under 'organize', and also adjust whether your photos can be found by tags, image type or other criteria. Public Flickr photos show up in image search results. You can also set age restrictions and a suitability filterThe webupload seemed to work without a glitch, but I had a lot of trouble after creating a set when I wanted to upload more images. It was really difficult to find how to get back to the upload option.
I also found the 'Make Stuff' page difficult to navigate. Bookr was the only app I would try. It was necessary to wade through copious apps with commercial and non commercial mixed. I believe Big Huge Labs is a better site for photo fun.
One technique was to add captions, which would be great for character study.
Another was framing which could be used effectively with creating 'artworks' from student drawings
Content filters are categorised according to both safety level and content type and can be flagged for both when uploading. It was reassuring to discover that the default setting for those not signed in to Flickr is 'Safe Search'. This feature allows you to control what turns up in your searches on Flickr.Apparently Flickr administrators can flag accounts which have been incorrectly assigned and if “This profile is unavailable to you” message displays, it means that the account has been flagged as "moderate" or "restricted." It is possible for anyone to flag a photo if they feel it is unsuitable and it is then reviewed by Flickr staff. The search options can be edited via the "Advanced Search" link, with both SafeSearch and Content Type options editable. If you aren't signed in, you can include different types of content in your search results, but SafeSearch is always on. I personally find the Flickr navigation lacking with many of the menu choices hidden. It takes a bit of mouse hovering and clicking to unearth some of the options. I only located the advanced search option accidentally after locating the hidden drop down menu beneath the search bar on the home page. I neede to select one of these choices before the advance search was initiated. The entire navigation bar was designed using the same principles so it really is necessary to spend a lot of time exploring using the arrow menu expanders.
Creative Commons licenses enable people to apply a spectrum of possibilities between full copyright “all rights reserved” and the public domain ( free for everyone and for any reason). They are not an alternative to copyright but work alongside copyright and apply globally. I find it confusing that some people make their photos available for public view yet retain an "all rights reserved" full copyright. In the era of screenshots it seems somewhat useless to deactivate the right mouse click option anyway. Flickr provides 6 attribution levels
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization
Geotagging was a new concept and the 'help' screencast explained it well.
They can also be tagged with a map location (geotagged) for holiday snaps.
Use the Advanced search option in Flickr to find Creative Commons Content.
Activity 3 Consider copyright by exploring these resources
Copyright and Acceptable Use
Web 2.0 has spawned some copyright nightmares. Although the Smart Copying website can be very helpful, there are still some grey areas which are continually debated on listservs like OZTL _NET. A component of every research cycle should be to credit sources.
The copyright page on my school library wiki has been used with my students for just over a year.
It was my intention to create something which would make the issue of copyright understandable. Hopefully they have learnt that copyright means 'only the person who created something is the person who can copy all of it'. It also addresses the concept of 'fair use'.
Judy O'Connell on her Hey Jude blog lists a number of sources for free images online
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