BP5_2010032_Web2.0Tool2_Flickr

I decided to kill two birds with one stone when I signed up for my Flickr account. I have heard the word Flickr a couple of times in connection with photos from my colleagues but I really didn’t stop to ask them about it.

When asked to explore and research another Web2.0 tool, I chose Flicker because I wanted to learn about it, what it was, and how could I use it personally and professionally. Flickr brags about being the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Flickr also offer it’s service for free but a client can purchase a ProAccount for added features for about $2.00 a month.

Flickr was created by Ludicorp and launched in February 2004 (Ludicorp, 2004). Flickr gives the client solution to organize the many digital photos they take on any given day while allowing the clients friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize the client’s photos by tagging them, adding comments, and notes (Ludicorp, 2004).

Flickr has two goals: 1) showing it’s users how they can better manage their photo/video content to share it with anyone who matters and, 2) show their users how to manage their online photos and videos.

Creating a Flickr account was so easy and it also works through FaceBook. After I created my account, I uploaded my photos. However, there was a problem with my upload. I read that Flickr allows it’s clients to upload batches of photos stored in a file or folder and that’s what I did. I uploaded a whole folder of about 180 photos. I learned that there is a 100MB limit on photos you can store a month. The great thing about this feature is that Flickr will highlight your photos with the largest MB so it would be easier for the client to delete them.

One way I would use my Flickr account in my classes is to set up an account that only my students can have access to. I can have them create their own account and have them share their photos they took during a resent class field trip to Islands of Adventure. They can tag, make notes, and comments on each other’s photos. Since this trip was about the hiring processes of the park, the students were able to complete mock interviews with the Human Resource staff, look at some differences between a poorly written resume and an exceptionally written resume, and the wow factor of first impressions, the students can label what phase of the hiring process they were in when their photo was take.

This is a great Web2.0 tool to use in the classroom. I will be implementing it very soon.


Ludicorp., . (2004, February). A Simple guide to flickr. Retrieved from http://theroxor.com/2009/06/09/a-simple-guide-to-flickr/