Module 4

In Module 4 we are learning about Flickr. Learning and doing are two different things!!. Being a private person I have never had a great urge to go on Facebook or anything similar and the only photos I take are usually left in the camera only to be looked at on rare occasions by myself or family members. Having said that, once I got my head around Flickr I could see what I had been missing.

The Flickr Feature Tour explained a brief overview of the features of Flickr and to be able to add a label, description, a comment and a tag to your photos if you wanted was interesting. If you wished to get really creative you could make a photo album or a coffee table book using your own photos and give them as gifts.

Creative Commons enables authors, musicians, artists and all creative people, to make available to the public the right to use their work without payment, but, at the same time retaining control over their copyright material.

The use of Flickr in schools would be useful for subject such as Geography, Art and Woodwork. Students could show their work, as well as adding a label and a description of the work. This way they are sharing and giving others the chance to comment.

As we go through Web 2.0 sharing, communicating and commenting is what it's all about.