Welcome to Week 4 of your quest!
This week you will investigate Photosharing. This means the publishing or tranferring of your digital images to an online service, which then lets you organise and share your photos with whom ever you choose. These photosharing sites have developed from the early online services that let you order prints online. They provide a centralised access point to your photos, often with some basic editing options. Many provide options to share pictures by download, email, URL and blog inserts.
What is Flickr?
Flickr: A free site that allows you to upload, organize, comment on and share photographs (and now short video clips) with other site members. A small fee changes your account to a professional one, where photo-editing tools are available. Photobucket is a similar service. You will need to be able to 'Upload' photos - that means saving pictures/content from your PC, pendrive or phone to a blog/wiki/webpage/bookmarking site. You will be using 'Tags' and these services are also an example of both 'Social Bookmarking' and 'Social Networking'.
www.flickr.com
History: Launched 2004, one of the earliest web2.0 apps, bought by Yahoo in 2005, videos added in 2008.
Example of: media sharing, social bookmarking, networking. Free for a limited storage account. Good for: feedback, joining groups, organising photos and sharing.
Bad for: editing available for fee only.
**Remember - this week's Task 2 challenge gives the option of either opening a Flickr account OR uploading a picture into your next blog post**
Getting Started:
To set up a Flickr account go to www.flickr.com and click on 
- Register a Yahoo password and you will be redirected to Flickr
- Add a photo and tag it
- Share a photo with friends/colleagues
- Join a group and leave a comment on someone elses photo
Adding an image into your Blog
- You can add pictures into your blog posts using the Image Library.
Don't forget to:
- Note your username and password if you set up a Flickr account.
- Record what you achieved this week on your blog and tag your post as 'Web Quest'.
If you get stuck reply to the Quest Post to get help from other participants or see the guides on the Library Moodle
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