Mexican Folk Dancing

Another Animoto example using Flickr Creative Commons photos of various folk dancing scenes from Mexico.

Tour of Paris

A series of photos of Paris from Flickr Creative Commons for demonstration purposes to show the fun behind creating an Animoto example.

Virtual Photos in Flickr

As a part of the 23 Things, we all have visited Flickr to see all kinds of photos...educational and personal interests.

Go here to see some information for virtual photos in Flickr, i.e. photos of Jokaydia Island in Second Life. If you are at school, you can see the flickr collection, but not the gallery views on the island...blocked in district.

Use the tag jokaydiaphotocomp08 to see what's been posted. Look for the one with the butterfly overlay...can't post it here...rights reserved! And one of the the upper portion of the lighthouse...you feel like you are flying!

A "Tree" of the Pad!

The Lily Pad Playground looks like this if you go here.

And here is all the background and some other examples!

and it is also another activity for Flickr... websitesasgraphs is the search term.

A Little More Mashup Playing

I am not totally comfortable with Flickr yet, but I haven't had time to load very many pictures and that will come in time. I am still unsure about the parameters of how things can be used. I know many pictures are copyrighted and others (including mine) are marked with the Creative Common use. I am assuming that means they can be used for non-profit use...at least I think that is how mine are set up...I hope!

I wanted to try some more mashup stuff so I went in and created a name tag! Fun, fun, fun! I can see all kinds of uses...student assistants, school club members...family reunions, high school reunions...anything where you might want some kind of visual representation!

I also took advantage of the service that allows PD Lab creations to be uploaded to Flickr for storage so maybe I won't continue to chase myself around looking for my "samples!"

I like these fun mashups. I can get my head around them and understand them...if I go into it too deep, I get lost...so I'm just going to have fun and not think about the mashup process too much!

Ok...on to Google things!

See ya!
Froggy Wart

Thing #6 Mashing Stuff

I am still struggling with all the aspects of Flickr...it is a much more complex site than I realized and you can do so much with it...I just wish I understood it all better, but I know, in time, it will come and I will have a light bulb moment or two.

I do like the texture & color feature of Flickr that allows you to select a color and various photos representing it will pop up. I picked a really deep green and you can see the results. I can see how this would help an art teacher demonstrate color and textures with regard to paint and color, but also it would be a fun way to teach color vocabulary to youngsters (or ESL students) as well.

I have been using a mash up called Animoto for some time now, but I do like the trading card program that was included for us to play with! I can see all kinds of uses in school for this little program and for lots of ages...I think I might have to make some fun "business" cards for myself. Here is a sample card I created to learn the program.

I have had fun...maybe too much today...I gotta leave this for awhile and get back to my New Year's resolution of getting my little casa clean and straight again...I can almost see my dining room table!

Until later, Froggy Wart

Thing #5 Flickr

Why do I insist on making something hard?!?

I have been in Flickr about a half dozen times looking at pictures and reading all the stuff about it. Just join and upload and quit worrying about it so much.


I really want to use Flickr to store pictures so I don't always have to remember which computer I have put some picture files on. I do want to be careful because most of the pictures I take are of people who I don't want to share with just anyone. So I really had to read the privacy portions more than once. So I have set it up to have public and private pictures.


So I go to join...and low & behold I had already done so...way back in 2004! Completely forgot that! When the other pictures popped up, I was surprised.

Here is a photo I took and I have added to my Flickr collection. I wanted to include a picture of my favorite place on earth, but none of the ones I saw in Flickr looked like they were "free" to use. So I have emailed the owners and if they grant peremisssion, I will come back here and include one of those!

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In the meantime, you get to see the friendly squirrel that comes down the tree to get pecans out my sister's hand! I wish I could show you the turtles that come "running" for the canned dog food, but they are hibernating right now! I could have shown you a picture of my Mr. C, but I have to figure out which computer he is on first!

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Anyway, there is SO much to learn about the Flickr stuff...and I want to learn to use it correctly!

There are SO many great photos...especially when you put in tags!

More later!

Froggy Wart