Thing 5: More Fun With Flickr

Thing 5 presents many great tools for students to learn about media and advertising, among other things. Students can create billboards, magazine covers, movie posters, etc. and market to a specific audience, or try to create a certain mood through the images and words that they use. Students will be more engaged because they will feel ownership of what they create while learning. Another example would be to learn about calendars by creating them using their favorite pictures from home in Flickr Big Huge Labs . This is a resource that I will definitely share with the elementary teachers.

Thing 4A: Explore Flickr

The photograph that I copied from Flickr was taken by gandy1941.

The image can be found at http://flickr.com/photos/gandydancer/2080710416/sizes/o/

The photograph is of my grandfather's sister and her daughter. When I searched Flickr, I was pleasantly surprised to find a collection of photographs tagged with my family name. I would have never seen this photograph of my great aunt and her daughter were it not for Flickr. Online photo-sharing websites provide a great opportunity for librarians to help preserve history through photographs. I think librarians should work with local historical societies to help catalog (tag) old photographs into an online photo-sharing website. What a great tool for researching the history of a community and its people. Librarians should reach out to the community to bring in their old family photographs in order to digitize them and tag them with family names and places. Online photo-sharing is a great tool for genealogy. Work must be done soon, because many of the names and places of the photographs only remain in the minds of elderly people.