All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'flickr'
Still images advice tagged 'flickr'
Using Blogs to Find and Organise Images
Blogs tend to be text-based but they often also include images. This advice document provides an overview of blogs, considering how they can be used as both sources of images and as tools for managing and presenting your own images.
Read full advice document...Photo Sharing Sites
This advice document looks at the most common features offered by a number of photo sharing sites, highlights the pros and cons of using such sites, and offers some practical tips for both finding images and organising your own images.
Read full advice document...Finding Images on Flickr
This document looks at the pros and cons of using the photo sharing site Flickr as a source of images.
Read full advice document...Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images
This document looks at the ways you can use the photo sharing site Flickr and some of its associated tools and services to help organise a collection of images.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'flickr'
Systems for Managing Digital Media Collections
Everyone’s collection and context is unique, so your choice of a system (or systems) for managing your digital media will require a careful assessment of your needs and resources and an evaluation of the available options. This paper provides an overview of a number of different approaches to media management: from some very cheap and ‘low-tech’ approaches to much more complex and specialised solutions.
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Training courses tagged 'flickr'
Finding Free-to-Use Images Online
If you’ve ever needed to find images online that you can use in your work materials then this course is for you. It will guide you to all the best places to locate free-to-use, copyright cleared images for use in both teaching and learning. You’ll never use Google to find images again!
Read course description...Using Digital Media in VLEs
This one day workshop focuses on the effective use of digital media in presentations and online usage including the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). During the workshop attendees will discover how to improve the design of their presentation resources, know when and how digital media can be used to enhance learning materials and be able to successfully embed material in the VLE.
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Blog entries tagged 'flickr'
Free-to-use images from US National Archives
Another great selection of images is now available for all to use without restriction via Flickr.
Read blog entry...Find me an image that looks like this one
UPDATE: The day after we posted this, GazoPa announced that it is now in open beta - available to the public without login. GazoPa is a new ‘similar image search’ service that finds images based on the visual content of any image you supply.
Read blog entry...Blogs, wikis and photo sharing sites
We’ve just released three newly updated documents in the Still images advice section.
Read blog entry...Flickr’s new search results page
The new layout for Flickr search results is now live.
Read blog entry...Newly updated Flickr advice
We’ve just released a completely updated advice document on using Flickr to find images.
Read blog entry...Backing up Flickr
If you’re like me, you may have wondered at some point how to download/back-up all of your full size Flickr images. Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic has a solution that uses a python script to solve this pesty issue.
Read blog entry...Free-to-use historic photos via Flickr
In the 16 months since Flickr launched The Commons, the photo sharing site’s partnership with publicly-held photography collections has seen close to 30 institutions signing up.
Read blog entry...JISC Digital Media goes analogue
Yesterday lunchtime a few of us got back to basics learning a little more about pinhole photography.
Read blog entry...Bloom’s taxonomy for the digital age
Mike Fisher has a fascinating blog called DigiGogy. On it he recently created and posted a visual representation of Bloom’s taxonomy with a slew of Web 2.0 tools positioned on it in appropriate places.
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