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'
Finding Subject-Specific Digital Media Resources
There are a multitude of websites providing access to a wide range of digital media resources (images, video and audio) covering many subject areas. This can be very bewildering if you are searching for specific resources to use in the lecture/classroom or for inclusion in a VLE (virtual learning environment). The purpose of this document is to provide a subject-specific guide to finding digital media resources with links to a number of useful websites.
Read full advice document...Finding Video, Audio and Images Online
There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it’s not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.
Read full advice document...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'
Using Digital Media in VLEs
This one day workshop focuses on the effective use of digital media online including the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). During the workshop attendees will discover how to improve their presentation resources, know when and how digital media can be used to enhance learning materials and be able to successfully embed their new knowledge in their VLE and online services.
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Blog entries tagged 'flickr'
Presentation slides on where to find images, video and audio
Here are the presentation slides from the session Sue and Ant gave on where to find images, video and audio at last week’s RSC Wales event: Learning in a Digital Wales. #ldw2010
Read blog entry...How to get attention on Flickr
Once you have produced a collection of multimedia resources, it is typical to hope that many people will visit and view said resources.
Read blog entry...Time to unplug
Eye-fi have recently released their new (and the first ever) range of memory cards fitted with wireless technology that allows you to upload photos and videos directly to your computer or the web.
Read blog entry...Where to find video, images or sounds?
Our latest advice documents look at the most useful sites for finding digital media resources online.
Read blog entry...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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