CREATING, PUBLISHING, USING IMAGES

Special note: Chapter 7 talks about Flickr, an online photo sharing website, while the main focus of this blog post is about Picasa, a photo "organizing, editing and sharing" app.

Chapter 7 main points:

  • Flickr: A free website (logging in with email), where one can edit photos, add descriptions, create albums, and share these images (and also video) with others.
    • Users can "tag" photos with categories. You can search for a category such as "cats," and all photos that have been uploaded by people with the tag "cats" will pop up.
      • Can "subscribe" to tags.
    • Watch for inappropriate content, and speak with students regarding this topic.
    • Best to edit photos in editing software (such as Picasa!) before uploading to flickr. 
    • Can make albums private.
    • Google earth: can say where a photo was taken on the world map.
      • One can do a search in google earth of a longitude and latitude of a location, and all flickr photos that have been "tagged" at the location will pop up.
      • People post real time photos of events happening around the world.
  • Classroom ideas: images of field trips, guest speakers, special projects, etc. 
    • Can post photos to class album(s) on class flickr account, and then link the album(s) to the class site, blog, or wiki, to share with parents/communities/colleagues).
    • Create presentations/slides.
    • Can annotate pictures and discuss picture in detail.
      • Make comments.
      • For classroom projects, students can use flickr to search for images according to their subject (via "tags,") and (citing the image source), use the photos in their projects.


PICASA How-to:


1. Download Picasa:

2. Upload photos:














  1. For my android phone:
    1. Uploaded images to google drive
    2. In Picasa: “import photos": selected photos, imported to folder in Picasa
  2. For my Kodak camera: 
    1. Uploaded photos onto my computer photos file
    2. In Picasa: "import photos": selected photos, imported to folder in Picasa
  3. For Ipad: 
    1. Emailed photos to gmail
    2. Once in gmail: shared photos with google drive
      1. Automatically imported to Picasa
  4. For copy right free web images:
                    











http://www.copyrightfreephotos.com/nature/1

Great education-related copy right free web image websites: 


3. To create a new album:

  1. Highlight the photos *under folders* you want
    1. Click on blue icon in lower left corner "New album" and name album

                                










***To rename a folder:



4. Editing photos:

  1. To edit a photo: double click on it
    1. Many different editing options in Picasa, including: 
      1. Rotate, zoom, compare 2 images, add text on image, cropping, retouching...

5. Sharing photos and linking album to blog:

Uploading album:













 Oops! Picasa linked to wrong email address. How to fix:













































Linking album to blog:

  • Again, "sharing options" under right arrow in photo album in google plus


6. Tagging... explore during class

5 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 12, 2014 at 10:57 AM

    All in all I think that having these tools in your "teaching tool belt" can be very important. After reading through chapter 7, and experiencing Picasa in class, I can determine that they are very different. I would assume that Picasa is more practical and functional for a classroom setting. I worry that Flickr is more public, and Picasa is more functional when saving photos on your personal drive while keeping them private. One of my main concerns is that there may be confidentiality breaches in sharing photos (especially in special education) that the more private these photos are, the better. Similarly to Flickr, Instagram would worry me in a professional setting. Although, if pictures of students were never used, Flickr may be more appropriate.
    Is I look into ways of flipping classes for my project proposal, I can see the benefits of using an account like Flickr, or Picasa to store and embed photos for professional practicality.

    https://www.flickr.com/groups/classrmdisplays/

    Here is a link to how teachers utilize flickr in a classroom setting on a webpage to highlight current and past classroom activities. For this specific use, Picasa appears to be similarly appropriate.

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  2. AnonymousJune 12, 2014 at 2:22 PM

    In regards to reading the chapter on Flickr and listening to Elizabeths instruction on Picasso, I feel like the main differences with the two are that Flickr seems to be geared toward developing a professional online photography gallery (w the ability for anyone to share, as well), where picasso is a tool used to organize pictures in the cloud for personal use. By the end of the lesson it became obvious that Picasso is probably not the most user friendly photo program out there. I thought Elizabeth did a great job and she must have spent quite some time learning the ins and outs of the program because the processes within the software seem more complicated than need be.
    As far as using Flickr in our classrooms - A teacher could potentially create a classroom Flickr account where students could collectively paste research images and images borrowed from the internet and imbed comments relevant to the project. You could create a sort of image based documentation of lessons.
    Here is an example of how to use Flickr in the classroom -
    http://teachersnetwork.org/ntny/nychelp/technology/flickr.htm

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  3. UnknownJune 16, 2014 at 5:08 PM

    Chapter 7
    This chapter was all about the world of Flickr. I was not too familiar with flickr before reading the chapter. For my photos, I use iPhoto or when I need them printed I have used Walgreens before, so needless to say I learned a lot while reading this chapter. Flickr is basically a photography portal where one can upload and share many of their pictures. One great thing in schools that they are using Flickr for are presentations and slides. It is any easy place to find pics and share your own. Another very popular educational aspect of the site is the annotation feature, they even described a third grader using this tool. They listed off a few other examples but what I thought the coolest part of it was the fact that you can connect with people from all over with the idea of photos! Again, global conversation is coming to my mind, a very common theme throughout this course! I love the idea of connecting with other people who share you interests or hobbies and want to showcase these things through photos. I use the social app, Instagram, and I think it is so cool to see the world through my friends eyes through what they post!
    I also really found Picasa to be really interesting and was really thankful for Elizabeth’s walk through of the site. Again, not very familiar with it so it will take some playing around but I love how easy it was to use with Google. (Once I figured it out:)

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  4. UnknownJune 17, 2014 at 10:52 PM

    Hey, Elizabeth!!

    I don't know why we wasted our time on Picasa when we should have been playing with Flickr FOR SURE! This is actually a really amazing tool. The first thing that comes to my mind is what better tool could there be for kids in SPED. RIGHT?!?!? I mean, kids who can't read very well or write very well LOVE visuals. You could easily partner the visuals from Flickr with Dragon Speak and students could dictate their stories and then add their "annotations" to their photo.

    I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the idea of "Flicktion." As a Language Arts person I am immediately drawn to anything that has to do with words & this is one of those ideas that I can totally see myself using!

    Like all other social web "stuff" a teacher must take precautions: parental permissions, privacy settings, teaching responsibility, etc. Even though there is some risk involved I think that the pros far outweigh the the cons.

    My suggestion for future classes is that Flickr gets an hour or two to be explored.

    Resources I would like to explore more:

    --David Jakes: tinyurl.com/38wsm5 )here you will find many suggestions on how to use Flickr in the classroom)

    --Brian Crosby (4th grade teacher): tinyurl.com/cr85k9 (GREAT IDEAS!!! Photo Field Trips!!!)

    --“Flicktion”=pick a photo and write a story about it! COOL! tinyurl.com/6e84jh

    --Alan Lavine’s “What Can We Do With Flickr?” tinyurl.com/2kly3j

    FULL CHAPTER NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fot9oPrKQHlTXIyDhszLqaM0dZv82H3_DvHC5nhZShk/edit

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  5. UnknownJune 19, 2014 at 9:37 PM

    I am in LOVE with Flickr, Screen-casting, and YouTube!!!!
    I think that these tools are a great resource that work amazingly together and are easy to use. Like we have discuss in class there are endless possibilities in which these tools can be connected to the curriculum being taught in the classroom, our only limitation is our imagination.

    In terms of safety and privacy of what we decide to have our students, as a class, or as a teacher be publish online, is up to the teacher, since all of these tools have a privacy option.

    I was going to create a video response (using YouTube), but just as much as I love YouTube, I accept and respect its limitations. One of those limitations is that, sometimes, it will just not work. Since I could not record a video and use my PowerPoint presentation I had created, I saw that you could upload a slide show, so that’s what I did.

    I hope you enjoy…. Music, trivia to the World Cup 2014 ….

    My Flickr Finds:
    Kindergarten
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/107323907@N08/
    - pictures of and are organized in folders:
    Classroom events
    Field Trips
    Presentations

    K-5th grade classrooms
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/90974638@N05/
    - pictures of and are organized in folders:
    Classroom events
    Field Trips
    Presentations
    Ideas on how they are using technology in the classroom aside from this tool (Flickr)

    Slide Show Response Using YouTube

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