Mill Valley (CA) Library posted a set of photos to flickr of 3rd grade history reports from the Edna Maguire Elementary School. Nice project idea. And great way to share the reports.
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“Then & Now” – Third Grade History Reports
Flickr’s own embeddable slide show
There are plenty of ways to embed a slideshow of your flickr photos on your web/blog/wiki page. But up till now, there was no quick and easy way to do it directly from your flickr account.
Now you can copy and paste a simple line of code to embed a slide show of any of your sets of photos, your photostream, tags, search results and so on. There aren’t too many options with the slideshow, currently just the size of the slideshow can be changed. There aren’t any photo captions or links back to your flickr account. No doubt flickr will add features as time goes by.
Check out the flickr blog post: Our new slideshow: pass the popcorn! for more details.
And for a whole slew of other ways to embed flickr photos on your web/blog/wiki pages, check out my Flickr Slide Shows wiki page. Some of these 3rd party tools still have more options than the new flickr slide show service.
Flickr Slide Show of “My Favorites”
Free Mini READ Poster Generator from ALA
Head on over to the ALA READ Mini Poster Generator and have some fun! Fun project for everyone on the staff, kids, patrons, trustees, students…. Make posters, buttons, badges and more. Get creative and have some fun.
If you post your photo to flickr, make sure you add it to the READ Poster photo pool For more information, read this post from The Shifted Librarian.
(photo by Jenwaller)
Summer Reading Photos
The 2008 Summer Reading photo pool at flickr is growing by leaps and bounds. Tons of great photos of programs, activities, displays and more. Like this great photo from the Newport (OR) Public Library. Take a look at the pool for some fun ideas. And please add your photos too!
p.s. Don’t forget to check out the news on the Summer Reading blog.
flickrCC – another great flickr search tool
How’d I forget flickrCC in the last post? This is another terrific flickr search tool that just searches for Creative Commons licensed flickr photos and has some really handy editing features.
- Search for a keyword and you get a nice mosaic of thumbnails from flickr.
- Pick the one you want and you can select which size you want view. (Larger images tend to bleed off to the right on smaller monitors.)
- My favorite feature is “in house” editing. This gives you a screen where you can add credits to the picture, additional text, a border and more.
- When you’re all done, right click and save to your hard drive or copy and pop it right into your presentation software.
(reminded of this via HeyJude)
Finding Photos – flickr Search Tools
Do you use flickr to find photos for presentations, reports and projects? It’s truly a treasure trove of photos, images and screenshots.
You can search for images of types of objects (apples, sailboats, panda bears) or specific places (Mt. Everest, Iguazu Falls) and even photos that evoke a certain emotion or concept (cheerful, speak no evil).
And by using flickr’s advanced searching option and limiting to Creative Commons licensed photos, you’ll find images that you can use without copyright worries.
But if you use flickr for this sort of search often, you’ll soon get tired of plowing through tons of images and downloading photos one by one. This is where some 3rd party tools come in handy.
- flickrstorm – Enter search terms to retrieve photos matching that term. In addition, flickrstorm retrieves a set of related photos as well. Best of all, you can save individual photos to a “photo tray” and download them all to your computer at one go. This is a great time saver. (via Librarian in Black)
- PicLens – This handy browser add-on lets you fly through a set of photos and zoom in on the one’s that look interesting. You’ll still need to select each photo individually for download, but you can preview hundreds of photos in a flash. Works with YouTube, Picasa, Photobucket and other image rich web sites. (via TheShiftedLibrarian)
