Enter a tag, and see how well you can make sense of 20 random flickr photos, each one on screen for 20 seconds. See advanced options to chose different number of slides or timing.
Thanks to Kalev Leetaru, a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University, you can now head over to a new collection at Flickr and search through an archive of 2.6 million public domain images, all extracted from books, magazines and newspapers published over a 500 year period.
You may remember reading about Whitefriars College teacher librarian Tania Sheko's collaborative learning project using Flickr. The project has now concluded and a few of the students have shared their thoughts, reflections and ideas about what they loved most about the project.
Year 7 at St Joseph's Mundingburra created digital mosaics as an affective response to a group reading and discussion of Colin Thompson's "Dust," an Honour Book in the Picture Book category in this year's CBCA Book of the Year awards. The mosaics attempted to express the book's themes of starvation, isolation, loneliness, global responsibility, immediacy, caring, love and hope. The mosaics have been created through mashing bighugelabs with flickr images
How come when I type in zebra it gives me pictures for adorable dogs? Same for African zebra and striped zebra. And yet it *does* yield proper images for hyenas, anacondas, and lemurs?
Just curious.
If you have any photos of the displays which you have created in your library, please share them here, and hopefully pick up a few ideas from other people.
This is a photostream of favourite library displays and layouts from Fran Hughes, Education Officer: Library & Information Services, Catholic Education Services
Cairns Diocese
"For Montana Poetry day in 2007 we asked customers to suggest their favourite poems. Staff then wrote some of those suggestions on the pavement in front of the library. "