Flickr

Flickr: an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images (Wikipedia, 2009).

Flickr is new to me, so I first logged on and looked at the help section. Because I didn’t have a specific question yet, I was not given general getting started information. After roaming on my own, the site is pretty straight forward. You need a picture, type it in, and get results. Similar to Google Image, but photos are posted by individuals.

LIKES Amazing pictures available Sharing available Great to see others photos Keep friends/family up-to-date Great for lesson plans/slideshows

DISLIKES Layout is too busy for me May not be in others’ uploads Limited pictures on certain topics

Overall, this was a good site. Some of the pictures are breathtaking and would be great for presentations, slide shows, pictures in the classroom, etc.