Week 3: "Thing 5"

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Before I embarked upon this discovery exercise, I had already set up a flickr account but the assignment challenged me to learn more. I found out how to do so many interesting things.

I learned that "Tags" are keywords or labels that you add to a photo to make it easier to find later.

I found out that "Groups" make it easy to share photos and that once you become a member of a specific group you can then add your photos to that group's pool.

I also learned to upload a photo, tag it, use the edit and create options in Picnik to enhance the color, sharpen the image, and add a border, as well as link my Raven About Web 2.0 blog 'World Wide Web Quest' to my flickr account so that the next time I want to upload a photo to my blog it is a quick and easy process. I did a test post from my flickr account to my blogspot just to be sure it wasn't too good to be true.

The photo that I chose to upload is one of my favorite photos that I took on the 100th Day of School. My students and I just celebrated the 'big day' last Friday. The photo is of an illustration that one of my students drew. The assignment was to make a wish for 100 of something, write what you would do with it, and then create an illustration to go with the writing. I have done this same activity for the past seven years of my teaching career and I have never had a student come up with such a unique yet well thought-out answer. He wished for 100 moms to do stuff for him!

There is so much more in flickr that I want to learn to do like make a map of where I have been, create a jigsaw puzzle, make my own teacher badge, create my own blog header, make a photo cube, add comic book captions to some of my photos, create a mosaic of my pictures, and much much more!

In closing, I have to say that I love that flickr, picnik, and blogger all work together so nicely and I wish I would have discovered this sooner as I have been using all three of them separately for almost a year now.