Module 4

Things have not gone completely smoothly this module. I started to do the module at school with a few other colleagues and we all had trouble uploading our photos. They just would not load. I gave up and went home after about an hour and a half thinking we were doing something very wrong.

Wrong! Once at home I uploaded with ease. Must have been the server having problems! Phew!

Any way I have had a bit to do with flickr before as a recipient, with the family sending me photos via a link on my email. It is a great way for siblings who live in different cities and even different countries to exchange photos with each other. I have to admit that I have always let my partner recipricate with our photos. I have never explored it myself before and having had a fiddle, which I really enjoyed, I know I have so much more to learn here. But I like being able to do what I can do after a short time. The photos can be uploaded very quickly and easily, and shared with a quick email link. Seems simple and as an added bonus, a good place to store a back up of your photos.

Using Flickr with the children as a classroom tool could be fun, however privacy and security would have to be carefully dealt with. There would be many times when flickr could be use and the photos shared with class members and with parents - excursions, sporting events, science experiments, liturgies, etc. The description tool could also be fun with the children writing their own captions. The kids of course would pick this up very quickly themselves and we could have photos everywhere. This would be ok as long as the privacy issue is clear to everyone.

Here are some of the photos I used on my photostream. I got them all from flickr in a creative commons search. All my own photos are of family it seems on looking, and since these ones were to be shared I thought it best to use the copyright free examples.

Cupcakes seemed like a good idea at the time. I also learnt how easy it is to take photos off yout photostream!