Photosharing

To introduce you to sharing photos online and to describe some ways that you can it in class.
 * Purpose **

By the end of this workshop, you should be able to 1. Upload your photos to Flickr 2. Tag your photos so that you can find them later 3. Create sets to organise your photos 4. Edit your photos online by cropping and rotating them
 * Learning outcomes **

1. What is Flickr? 2. Educational focus 3. Ideas for practice 4. Sign up for Flickr 5. Add photos to your Flickr account 6. Reflection 7. Evaluation 8. Useful links
 * Program **

**Visit [|the Web 2.0 Survival Guide entry on photosharing]
 * 1. What is photo sharing?

Check out [|Flickr's tour]
 * Store your photographs on the web
 * Edit and organise your photos
 * Share your photos
 * Use maps to show people where you took your photos
 * Make cards, books, framed prints, DVDs
 * Make slideshows and mashups with music, special effects and captions
 * Create group albums


 * 2. Educational focus **
 * Analysis and synthesis
 * Communication and knowledge sharing
 * Visualisation
 * Object sharing
 * Storing and managing information
 * Presentation and dissemination


 * 3. Ideas for practice **
 * Ask students to build and share individual portfolios around class topics.
 * Break the class up into small groups that each have to produce a group album on a particular course theme. Ask them to present their album to the rest of the class as part of an oral presentation assignment.
 * Ask students to edit their photos and explain their editorial choices.
 * Ask students to find or post a picture of the week that encapsulates for them the course theme. Get them to explain their choice in relation to key concepts for the course or topic.
 * Embed slideshows into your class blog and ask students to post comments. Be specific about the types of thing they should be commenting on.
 * Get students to create slideshows of photos that reflect particular elements of course themes. Ask them to present their slideshow in class and to demonstrate the links they’ve made with course content.
 * Explore issues of intellectual property and copyright with students. Tell them to research the different Creative Commons licences that many images are distributed under.
 * Use photo sharing to teach students the importance of copyright and how to source royalty-free images.
 * Photo sharing can also be used to teach students about the assumptions we make about others. For example, get students to visit photos tagged ‘glitter’ or ‘bmx’ or whatever. Ask them to reflect on the immediate assumptions they make about the person who posted the photo: their age, gender, ethnicity, other interests, etc. Use this as a prompt for in-class or discussion group conversations about identity, stereotypes, self-representation, etc.