Thing 37: Photo Tales

I think I signed up for a flickr account during the first round, but I don't own a camera and usually hide when other try to take pictures, so I didn't have anything to put up there. I went to flickr and searched through the Creative Commons pictures and found some that I could use to experiment with. I tried animoto and it seemed pretty easy to do. The only thing I had trouble with was adding music, but if I were using my computer at home with all my mp3s it would be a whole lot easier.

I can see us using this in the library to promote activites. We could have pictures of events and have them in a slide show. These sites would also work really well for montages at a wedding or graduation &c.

Thing 5 - More Flickr

Most of the extras that I looked at this week seemed just to be a waste of time. You were able to find interesting looking pictures, but that's about it. If we were to use Flickr in our library, I think we would use it as a place to post pictures from our events etc. I don't know what the use would be to spell your name in blocks or sign letters. The one mash-up I looked at that would be cool for personal use was Jigsaw where you could turn your pictures into puzzles. The best part was the fact that you could order an actual puzzle made out of your photo. It would be good for gifts. I used Retrievr to find pictures that kind-of went together and then made a Mosaic of them. Interestingly - what I drew didn't look anything like what the site pulled up. I'm really not sure how that whole thing works. I also had some problems with the size of my type in my previous post, but I think I got it fixed.

Thing 4: Photosharing

I had more fun with Fickr than I was expecting. I'm not really a picture person - in fact I tend to run away whenever cameras come out, so signing up for a Flickr account really didn't make sense for me. I did enjoy looking at pictures that other people had uploaded.
When I watched the CommonCraft video I was a bit concerned about the whole public/private thing, but once I was looking around Flickr I found that you don't have to make all your photos public, you can pick and choose. There are some pictures that just shouldn't be shared with the world.
The picture that I decided to upload looked really cool, like the guy was in a raindrop or something. It was originally posted by Lawrence Whittemore. I didn't have too much trouble posting the picture to my blog. (At least, I don't think I did.) We'll see if the picture actually shows up when I publish this post.