60 – Flickr

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Flickr is a place where you can store your photos, tag them and share them with others either through a link to the site or by embedding them in your blog or web page.

Comments from some of those who selected Flickr as one of their Top Tools

• “Flickr is a wonderful tool to find images to enhance instruction, however, it is blocked in my district to my use is primarily at home when searching for images that I then save onto a jump drive for sharing with my students. ” Mary Howard
• “I use this privately as a backup for my photo collection (worth paying for the pro version) and publicly for selected personal photos, and images that I use for work. Top feature is ability to search for CC-licensed images, and search in general has improved recently. I store a fe videos here but mainly use it for images. ” Frances Bell
• ” I have always loved Flickr for sharing photographs, but find the advanced search option of only displaying Creative Commons licensed photos very helpful in creating material for my blog or classes.” Britt Wattwood
• “I upload or link to Flickr photos several times a week. Beyond using Flickr to house traditional photos, I also use it to store presentation slides saved as .jpeg files. Flickr makes interfacing with other slideshow applications, such as VoiceThread, a snap.”  Jennifer Maddrell
• “for image storage – used also for uploading from mobile phones and auto publishing to my blog. Also for the map feature to show where photos were taken”  Derek Wenmoth
• “a great tool for storing and sharing images. The geotags utility is especially useful for pin-pointing the exact location you took the photo from, long after you’ve lost it from your memory.”  Charles Jennings
• “I take a lot of photos and could not keep them organized before”  Jay Cross

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