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flickr, National Library Week and New York libraries

Apr 11th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Nioga (NY) Library System - Blogs & Flickr Class
flickr class at Nioga Library System, Lockport, NY

New York libraries – get out your cameras and take a shot at fame!  The New York Library Association is having a fun photo contest.  Visit the NLW – Library Snapshot New York State flickr group to learn more and submit your photos.

During National Library Week 2009 on the days of April 12 – 18, New York Librarians and Library Staff will take a range of photographs of libraians working, meeting, teaching, and other activities that librarians do in a given day.

We encourage you to be creative in taking photos that capture the essence of New York Librarianship. Winners will be picked for the following categories:

  • Librarians as Teachers and Trainers
  • Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology
  • Most Humorous

Winners will be recognized on the NYLA website (www.nyla.org) and during the 2009 NYLA Annual Conference this October in Niagara Falls.

Each photo should also have the tag snapNY09. You may use any additional tags and titles and descriptions that relate to the photo.

Please visit NYLA Snapshot Contest for complete contest guidelines.

Poetry, photography & flickr

Mar 20th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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The Academy of American Poets Free Verse project on Flickr.

flickr free verse project

Inspired by the 2009 National Poetry Month poster design, the Academy of American Poets invites you to capture and share your own ephemeral bits of verse. Write lines from a favorite poem on a sandy beach, assemble twigs on a hillside, or chalk the sidewalk. Take a photo before it disappears and post it to the Free Verse group page on Flickr. Include the source of your lines in the photo caption.

All photos posted by April 15 will be automatically entered in a contest to win the new Poem in Your Pocket Anthology and a commemorative piece of hand-engraved jewelry by San Francisco designer Jeanine Payer. Selected entries will be featured on Poets.org.

via: Unquiet Librarian

More Features for Free Flickr Accounts

Mar 8th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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If you have a free Flickr account, you can now organize your photos into as many sets are you like. Used to be a limit of 3 sets. And you can now upload 2 videos a month as well.

On Sharing Photos & My Not-So Clean Desk

Jan 2nd, 2009
by pollyalida.
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clean desk Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love flickr. I love how shared photos & conversations around those photos help me connect with friends, family and colleagues. And how photos can bring to life, places I may never get to see in person.

And thanks to the generosity of people who share their photos via Creative Commons licensing, flickr is also a terrific source of images for livening up your blog, illustrating a school project or for use in presentations. Use flickr’s advanced search option to find Creative Commons licensed content.

Most of my own photos are licensed for use by anyone as long as it’s a non-commercial use and they give me credit. Like many other people, I set up a  search alert on Google that lets me know whenever it finds my flickr user name mentioned anywhere. It’s always interesting to see where a photo may end up. And sometimes rather funny.

The photo above, ended up on a blog posting encouraging people to bring a bit of order to their workday by clearing up some of the clutter on their desks. A laudable goal. One that I will now try to live up to. I’ve been clearing mountains of papers all week. I hope to see the surface of my desk soon.

With that goal in mind for the New Year, let me wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful 2009.

Ft Plain Central Schools Tech Camp

Dec 6th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Ft Plain Jr Sr High Web 2.0 Workshop I’m looking forward to meeting with 20 teachers at the Ft. Plain (NY) Central School on Saturday Dec 6. At 8 am! On a Saturday! Wow, you guys are dedicated souls.

This is going to be a 2.0 “tech camp” training day. We’ll be covering social bookmarking with delicious.com. We’ll use iGoogle to create a personal web portal and as a place to pull together RSS feeds from blogs, news sources, databases, delicious and more. iGoogle is a fun and useful tool that students can use to gather research material. (more…)

Great flickr images about our online world, media, life

Oct 15th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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About a year ago Helene Blowers tipped her readers to a great set of flickr images – Lynetter’s Interesting Snippets. Lynetter takes quotes about the online world, media and communications and finds great images to illustrate them. (Creative Commons licensed of course.) I love these images and quotes and have used quite a few of these in presentations.

And I was excited to discover another terrific set of images recently – Digital Bites by Will Lion.  I hope both Lynetter and Will Lion continue to add to these wonderful sets. Thank you both!

Whether you’re doing presentations or not, these slides make for interesting and thought provoking viewing.

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