Here’s the outline for a workshop I usually do on Flickr called “FlickrFun.” Thought I’d re-post it after seeing David Jakes’ stuff (worth checking out!)

1.  Presentation Outline

1.1  Innovation via Flickr

• Flickr’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows various applications to pull photos from Flickr for a variety of uses. My favorites include the following:
  • Animoto – Take 13 photos
  • VoiceThread – Allows you to pull images from Flickr into VoiceThread, then add audio and get audio/text comments from visitors.
  • FlickrSlidr – Create a slide show out of your Flickr photos/images that you can drop into a web page or blog entry.
  • Flickr Storm

1.2  FlickrTools

Working with Flickr Images

• AlbumMaker – Create photo albums that you can embed in web pages or blog entries.
• Big Huge Labs
• Captioner – Add caption to Flickr Images
• Flickr Graph
• Flickr Retrievr – Sketch a picture and see what matches.
• The Great FlickrTools Collection
• Crystal Create Embedded Flickr Objects
• Create PDFs from Flickr RSS Feeds
• Flickr Postcards – Make electronic postcards using images from Flickr
• Spelling with Flickr
• Flickrbooth for Mac – plugs-in to PhotoBooth, another neat Macintosh application.
• Many more FlickrTools

1.3  Tagging Your Flickr Images

• GeoTag An Individual Flickr Image – Read a short description about it here.

1.4  Flickrize Your Desktop and/or Wallpaper

• DeskLickr for Mac – rotates Flickr images as your desktop background image.

Searching/Browsing Flickr Images for Copyright-Friendly Items

• Searching
  • Behold
  • Search Creative Commons
  • FlickrCC Search
• Browsing
  • Browsing Tags

2.  Flickr Image Transfers

• Applications that make it easy to interact with Flickr:
  • Flock Browser – A whole new web browser with built-in Flickr uploading and lot of extra Flickr features built right in.
  • Flickr Uploadr – Enables you to easily upload photos into Flickr.
  • FlickrBackup – Make a backup copy of all the photos you have in Flickr. I periodically back them up and then upload them to Google Picasa.
• Mobile Phone Tools
  • Upload Photos via Email – If your camera-mobile-phone is set up to email, you can snap a photo with your camera phone then email the photo to your private email address. The photo will automatically be posted.

3.  Curricular Applications of Flickr

• Digital Storytelling with Flickr
  • Telling a Story in 5 Frames – Visual Storytelling
  • View examples of visual storytelling
• Teaching Grammar
  • Teaching with Flickr – Modal Verbs
  • Present/Continuous/Progressive Tense
• Podcast about Flickr in the Classroom (Teachers Teaching Teachers) – “A picture is worth a thousand conversations.”
• PhotoJournalism
  • Kids on Assignment
• ACRL Using Technology in teaching and learning:
  • Documenting Lewis Elementary. This school used Flickr to store, publish, and share images recording its teaching and learning experience. Access: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lewiselementary/
  • Exploring folksonomies and museums. This multi-museum, long-term project has studied user-generated tagging from a curatorial perspective. The site archives papers and other records of Steve’s work, which represent many breakthroughs and advances. Access: http://www.archimuse.com/research/steve.html and http://www.steve.museum/
  • The Teaching Files: X-Rays. A resident physician uses Flickr images to teach reading X-ray photos of the human body. Access: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjagbayani/sets/895629/

4.  Learn How to Use Flickr via Video

4.1  Hosted on YouTube.com

• Utech Tips on Flickr
• Using Flickr – General tutorial
• Flickr Tutorial – How to Sign Up
• Flickr Uploadr Tutorial
• Sharing Photos on Flickr with a Mac
• Flickr GeoTagging

4.2  Hosted on TeacherTube.com

• Getting Started with Flickr Part 1
• Getting Started with Flickr Part 2
• Spelling with Flickr
• FlickrStorm Part 1
• FlickrStorm Part 2
• FlickrStorm Part 3