Flickr
Site Name: Flickr
URL: http://www.flickr.com
Owner/Authorship: Yahoo Inc.
Type of Resource: Multimedia, photo-sharing and organizational website (supplemented with text, labeling, etc.)
Description: Flickr is an online photo management and organization website, and is open and free to people with a Yahoo ID account (which is free to join). Users are able to upload and organize photo albums on this website. Other users are free to view photo albums created by their friends on this site. Flickr essential improves the way consumers see and organize their photos online, and allows them to share their photos more openly and freely with their family and friends. (Kennedy, et al 2007).
Uses/Usefulness: This site could be extremely useful to a social studies educator. Teachers in this subject area along with teachers of other disciplines can use Flickr effectively to create photo or multimedia albums to use in their classes. For example, an art history teacher could use Flickr as a different source of multimedia to upload a slideshow of Renaissance paintings to supplement an auditory lecture on painters of the time period. While lecturing the teacher could easily move from picture to picture with the help of this photo organizer resource site. Students could also use this site just as effectively as their instructors. In the same art history class, students could use the feature of Flickr to compile an album of what they feel are the most significant works of a Renaissance painter such as Michelangelo. They could also compile an album of paintings that they feel best exemplify and represent a certain theme of the Renaissance. In taking this collaborative effort a step further, teachers could use this site as for assessment purposes, by giving students an assignment to compile an album of pictures that represent a certain theme in social studies, art history, government, etc. Ultimately, this site really allows for extensive educational collaboration between students and their teachers.
Quality: This website includes an excellent layout that is fresh and has an excellent color scheme. The site's links and layout make it easy to navigate, and keep the consumer/user interested in the website.
Point of view/Bias: Limited - based on the imported pictures of the user.
Referral to other sources: Links to other collaborative website (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Verifiability: Links
Currency: Updated regularly (daily for overall site, time frame varies for user pages and albums).
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 1 accessibility error - form label missing.
Sources Cited: Kennedy, L., Naaman, M., Ahern, S., Nair, R., & Rattenbury, T. (2007). How flickr helps us make sense of the world: context and content in community-contributed media collections. MULTIMEDIA '07 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia. Retrieved from: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1291384.
URL: http://www.flickr.com
Owner/Authorship: Yahoo Inc.
Type of Resource: Multimedia, photo-sharing and organizational website (supplemented with text, labeling, etc.)
Description: Flickr is an online photo management and organization website, and is open and free to people with a Yahoo ID account (which is free to join). Users are able to upload and organize photo albums on this website. Other users are free to view photo albums created by their friends on this site. Flickr essential improves the way consumers see and organize their photos online, and allows them to share their photos more openly and freely with their family and friends. (Kennedy, et al 2007).
Uses/Usefulness: This site could be extremely useful to a social studies educator. Teachers in this subject area along with teachers of other disciplines can use Flickr effectively to create photo or multimedia albums to use in their classes. For example, an art history teacher could use Flickr as a different source of multimedia to upload a slideshow of Renaissance paintings to supplement an auditory lecture on painters of the time period. While lecturing the teacher could easily move from picture to picture with the help of this photo organizer resource site. Students could also use this site just as effectively as their instructors. In the same art history class, students could use the feature of Flickr to compile an album of what they feel are the most significant works of a Renaissance painter such as Michelangelo. They could also compile an album of paintings that they feel best exemplify and represent a certain theme of the Renaissance. In taking this collaborative effort a step further, teachers could use this site as for assessment purposes, by giving students an assignment to compile an album of pictures that represent a certain theme in social studies, art history, government, etc. Ultimately, this site really allows for extensive educational collaboration between students and their teachers.
Quality: This website includes an excellent layout that is fresh and has an excellent color scheme. The site's links and layout make it easy to navigate, and keep the consumer/user interested in the website.
Point of view/Bias: Limited - based on the imported pictures of the user.
Referral to other sources: Links to other collaborative website (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Verifiability: Links
Currency: Updated regularly (daily for overall site, time frame varies for user pages and albums).
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 1 accessibility error - form label missing.
Sources Cited: Kennedy, L., Naaman, M., Ahern, S., Nair, R., & Rattenbury, T. (2007). How flickr helps us make sense of the world: context and content in community-contributed media collections. MULTIMEDIA '07 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia. Retrieved from: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1291384.
