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Citing Flickr Images New Tool – @Sprixi

When using images from Flickr under Creative Commons, I have relied on one online search engine consistently–FlickrCC.Bluemountains.net–by Peter Shanks. It works great, allows me to add attribution to images found. It also allows for easy image editing!

A newcomer–Sprixi.com–has caught my attention and is pretty easy to use….

For example, I did a quick search on the word “dragon” and came up with this:

I chose a dragon image available and then was asked to rate it, a feature not available on Flickrcc (which sometimes turns up yucky images that are objectionable to K-12):

and then….

The final product looks like this with the appropriate image citation:

Not bad! I may be trying this out in K-12 learning environments where words like “flickr” are blocked out of hand.

Note: For fun, I’m putting the Twitter address for @sprixi to see if it makes it through from Blog post to Twitter via Friendfeed.

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12 comments

  1. Miguel – can't thank you enough for pointing to a tool that has a fantastic approach to finding and using images. It will certainly simplify the job of searching, annotating and attributing images. Teachers and students will be impressed!!

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  2. Miguel – can't thank you enough for pointing to a tool that has a fantastic approach to finding and using images. It will certainly simplify the job of searching, annotating and attributing images. Teachers and students will be impressed!!

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  3. Love it–thanks for sharing. I used to copy the FlickrCC image attribution but an upgrade in WordPress recently caused all my images to reappear in the attribution area (instead of what I was copy/pasting. I'm going to give this a try too!

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  4. Love it–thanks for sharing. I used to copy the FlickrCC image attribution but an upgrade in WordPress recently caused all my images to reappear in the attribution area (instead of what I was copy/pasting. I'm going to give this a try too!

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  5. Thanks for the introduction. Some nice images come up with my searches on Spirixi, but I'm not ready to abandon flickrCC. For example, try searching for "letter k" and "letter c" on both platforms to see the difference.

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  6. Thanks for the introduction. Some nice images come up with my searches on Spirixi, but I'm not ready to abandon flickrCC. For example, try searching for “letter k” and “letter c” on both platforms to see the difference.

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  7. I tried a fairly obscure search term: Rulison. That's because one of my images, a scanned slide of the Rulison blast, was used by an online publication with attribution. It's too obscure a term for either of the search tools you mention, but if I search in Flickr Creative Commons, it comes up right away. If you search for Rulison Blast in Google Images, it comes up in both the publication that used it as well as on my Flickr page.

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  8. I tried a fairly obscure search term: Rulison. That's because one of my images, a scanned slide of the Rulison blast, was used by an online publication with attribution. It's too obscure a term for either of the search tools you mention, but if I search in Flickr Creative Commons, it comes up right away. If you search for Rulison Blast in Google Images, it comes up in both the publication that used it as well as on my Flickr page.

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