Thing “11″ Photos
Posted by arlieosborne on February 22, 2009
2 Computers with 9 Monitors
by totalAldo – May 21, 2007 (Flickr)
K12 Learning 2.0: Tools for 21st Century Teaching & Learning
THING “Eleven” (Session Five) :
Task: Photosharing and Tagging . . . (Experiences with Flickr)
Flickr is definitely popular, no question about that point. It does seem to have a pleasant design and organization style. I like the simple menu bar on the homepage. I found the Creative Commons link on the Explore dropdown link and was able to search Creative Commons images only.
I browsed around looking at the pictures and noticed the cc reference to them in the properties. I randomly downloaded a dozen of the pics. The one I posted above was an uploaded to the media library image. I did not have any particular reason for selecting this photo. It looked good to me – maybe I am just dreaming if I had 9 monitors, maybe I could get 9 times the amount of work done today!! Hey, maybe even 2 monitors would help with all of these different sites we are visiting at the same time!! I can envision having my blog site on screen 1, Moodle site on screen 2, Flickr on screen 3, Gmail on screen 4, Wiki on screen 5, Edublog on screen 6, Screens 7 search using IE, Screen 8 search using Firefox, Screen 9 local computer use. Whew!! There you go – the only problem is that requires more funds than I have at the moment to invest into this very nice setup. Hey, I accept donations!!
Well, anyway, back to Flickr. The tagging concept is interesting. Uploaded photos could end up with a multitude of tags. The first time I visited Flickr, I did notice a half page full of tags under some photos. The upside is that the photo can be found in a search and displayed in wide range of searches. The downside is that if every photo on this site has a page of tags, then even though it is going to be in your display results, you may literally have thousands of results to scan. I think Flickr users should use reserve in adding tags and try to use very descriptive ones that will aid in better and more accurate searches.
As far as using browsers, I like using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Flock. Flock is a successor to replace Netscape which had been around almost since the beginning of the internet. The Flock browser has a built-in way to download photos from Flickr. Here is the link if you would like to try it.
Download FLOCK Web Browser with built-in Flickr uploading and lot of extra Flickr features built right in. Flock also has custom themes, extensions and toolbars.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Love the pic! At first I thought, now that would be great…one computer, able to look at nine different things you’ve opened up at the same time. Then I remembered how little I know about computers and the internet, and I realized that I’d get lost sitting comfortably in my own home. Since I often feel overwhelmed at work, I don’t relish getting overwhelmed at home, too. I thing I’ll just leave it to people like you, whom I consider computer experts.