A Flickr Tutorial for Teachers

This Tutorial will show you how to: Sign Up for a Flickr account Upload, tag, share, and work with your images Search for Creative Commons-licensed images for your teaching Search for historical and cultural images in The Commons for your teaching View a slideshow of your work, your student’s work, or your favorite images

from your searches

To start, go to the Flickr site at

www.flickr.com

Click here to sign up for an account

Sign up using your Yahoo, Facebook or Google ID. Simple!

Joining Flickr is free. However, the site does

encourage you to purchase a Pro account

for $24.95 per year. Go to

http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

to compare Pro and Free account features.

This is a Flickr homepage!

Yours will look a bit emptier to

start with.

Begin by uploading a photograph.

Click here!

Choose photos from

your computer.

This is your photo waiting

to be uploaded.

Click to upload.

Select your privacy settings– visible only to you? Friends? Family?

Everyone? You choose.

Finished!Let’s add a

description.

Rename your photo and write a

description if you like.

Add tags here, words that you or

others might use to describe or find

your picture.

Create a new set here (a set is a label such as

‘Kitties’ or ‘Class Project’ that you want to add this

photo and others into to create a

group).

Tags are separated by commas. When you are done click

Add.

New title and

description.

You created a new set called Kitties! When you are done click

Create Set.

Scroll down and click

Save.

You uploaded

your photo. Nice work!

Notice we are now in Your Photostream.

Next step—let’s share and play

with our photo.

Sharing your photo is easy. If you click on

Share, you get a link to the photo. You can also

instantly share it on Facebook and Twitter.

People you let view your photos can make comments. Timmerschester thinks Charlie is

“So cute!” You can encourage students to comment on each other’s photos.

Click on the Actions pull down menu to do lots more! You can view photos in all sizes, download them to

another computer (For example, I uploaded

photos of a wedding in Cleveland and a friend downloaded them in

England—no problem), order prints and do basic image editing with them.

Next we’ll begin searching for images that other people

have added to Flickr.

Type your search terms here and click Search, or click the Search button first to

bring up the full Search page.

Click here to open this full Search page.Type in your

search terms and click Search.

Do you want to search only your photographs? Your friends photos? Or everyone’s? Use the pull down menu to choose.

You just did a search for the word ‘orange’

for Everyone’s Uploads. These are

the results. Your orange cat is in here, and so are thousands

of other photos tagged ‘orange’.

However, remember that not all photos

here are available for your use. Let’s find images that we can use without worry.

Just what I’m looking for when

I’m teaching!

Many Flickr

members allow

others to use their work for

free under some

version of the

Creative Commons license. This is

great for teachers!

To search for Creative Commons licensed

photos, go back to the full Search page and click on

the Advanced Search button.

Type your search terms, scroll to the bottom of the page

and click ‘Only Search within

Creative Commons-licensed

content.’

Look! Lots of results for

‘orange’ and all of these images are available for

use under a Creative

Commons license. Cool!

If you find an photo you like, click on the thumbnail to view a larger image and then click

on the Favorite star. Now you can find this image easily later on.

Next we’ll go back to your homepage and search another

area of Flickr called The Commons.

Go to your homepage and pull down the Explore menu and Select

The Commons

Notice any recent activity on your photos and the photos you have

commented on can be seen on your homepage.

Definitional notes: Creative Commons is a type of licensing assigned by the creator of a work that allows for broader use possibilities than exist with the standard "all rights reserved" full copyright.The Commons is a site within Flickr to which many museums and archives have contributed public domain images for use and comment.

Museums and

archives from all over the

world contribute photos to

The Commons.

You can use these images for

your teaching.

Search The Commons

here.

Searching The Commons for the

term ‘baseball’ brought up many

historic images you could use as

prompts for a class. Save as Favorites any images you would like to go

back to later.

Lastly, your students can now view your selected Favorites and any

photos you’ve uploaded as a slideshow.

Go to the You drop down menu and select Your

Favorites OR

click on one of your own named sets of photos to the right. This set is called Kitties!

If you selected Your Favorites, you will go to a page showing all of your favorites. Click on Light Box to view

these as a slideshow.

Nice.

If you selected one of your named sets, you will go to a

page showing all of the pictures in your set. Click

on Slideshow.

Adorable.

Once you've finished the tutorial, please create your own Flickr account. Upload a few photographs and

play! Post a link to it (make sure your photos are public) on my Flickr Tools page on Blackboard Learn and

provide one example of how you might use Flickr in your own teaching.

Thanks!

Whew! There are many, many more things you can do with your Flickr

account as a teacher, but hopefully this tutorial will help you feel comfortable getting started.

Tutorial by Edith Serkownek. If you have any questions,

please feel free to email me at eserkown@kent.edu