I have asked my good friends on Twitter what Web 2.0 photo tools they recommend, in preparation for a CPD session I’m giving in a week or two on the use of ICT in RE teaching. Here are their (and my) recommendations:
Flickr – I think the number one choice of most. Worth paying for. Which reminds me, I need to pay for the next year. Anyway, I think it’s well worth it. It’s about the only web tool I don’t even hesitate to think about paying for. It’s about £12 a year. I use it constantly, and have about 5000 photos stored there at the moment. I think. (Supported by tweets such as @creativetallis, @davefoord)
Compfight – Strange name, great way to browse Creative Commons Flickr photos.
Flickrstorm – Another way to browse Creative Commons Flickr photos (thanks to @mtechman).
Tag Galaxy – Visual way of honing in on just the photo you are looking for by gradually being more specific in the tags used (thanks to @dawnhallybone)
It’s amazing how many more photo and image opportunities, tools, applications etc there are now compared with two years ago. There are still many of the sites that I thought were fantastic when I first found them, but I think as I have become busier, and the amount of time I have to spend online has decreased, I have become more particular with which sites I use. It is good to have a reason to find out what I might be missing out on in the wider world of Web 2.0, and it makes a huge difference that I now have Twitter to help get more precise and focused recommendations. It’s also good to see that Flickr continues to be popular!
If I have missed out your favourite photo tool here, please leave a comment and I will update this at some point!
I am busily trying to produce resources that I can upload to Fronter. Here is a Wordle for Matthew 5:17 – 7:5.
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As well as producing visual images such as these, I have been using CompFight (bizarre name, great tool) to find Flickr images that are Creative Commons, then I have used SimplyBox to quickly store them so I can access them whenever I want. I have also made some of my own images, which I have saved in my own Flickr resource set. Later, I shall save some of these presentations (which I am making using Keynote) to Slideshare.
Strange, the YouTube “post to blog” option doesn’t seem to be working, so here is my “More Clouds” video! This time, I took photos at (fairly random) intervals throughout the day, using (of course!) my tripod, then put them altogether using iMovie (8, I think), with some freeplaymusic that I quite like.
I’ve uploaded it to Google Video … hope it all works okay!
Hope this works … wanted to draw everyone’s attention to the excellent Poppy Man that Victoria Ellis’ Citizenship pupils made last week – follow the link from the poems to see the Poppy Man, made up of many poetry poppies. A great piece of work, I’m sure you’ll agree!
Now, I haven’t done too much research into this yet, but it’s been very frustrating, so it would be interesting to know if people have faced similar issues.
My pupils were on retreat this weekend at the Bright Lights Festival in London Colney. I lent them my camera so they could take pictures. Unfortunately, the total number of pictures that they could take was 41!!! No, not 141, not 40 and one very long video – 41 still images. I’m not very impressed, a bit worried, and very disappointed for them, and myself. There were loads of photo taking opportunities – I would have loved visual evidence that I managed to clamber over a ten foot high tyre wall, but you will all just have to believe me instead!
Now, I wonder if the reason for this is that on a couple of occasions I have chosen to tick the box “delete when uploaded” on iPhotos or on the Adobe equivalent. And I noticed on one occasion when I was uploading photos, that I seemed to have uploaded a whole load of photos that I had previously deleted. Which makes me suspect that the images or videos may still be somewhere on my memory card, but I cannot access them to delete them.
I haven’t managed to have a look at the card via the computer yet, but on first reading, does anyone have any suggestions? Help!!! Thanks.
I’m at the CLC learning how to do lots of amazing things on my new MacBook … Very excited and I’m looking forward to trying everything out at home. I’m a bit frustrated, though, at the fact that I can’t access the internet – I hope it works okay at home! Claire has let me use her internet today, though.
We’re just being told about the task for next time. We’ve to try to use as many different software packages as possible and produce something small. Or big. Something.
So … today we’ve learnt about CrazyTalk, ComicLife, Pages, Keynote, GarageBand, Fronter, iMovies, iPhoto … I have recorded some of the talks, and need to work out how to make them into podcasts.
I will blog later to describe some of the things we’ve done.
