Getting started in Flickr - Technical glossary Video Lecture | Teach Online: A Comprehensive Approach for Teaching Online - Professional Skills

Flickr is a worldwide online community
designed for hosting and sharing a wide
range of images and even videos people
can search the photos uploaded in Flickr
via a tagging system that helps identify
image content users can make their
images public or private and even select
a range of copyright options to protect
their own work it's a way to organize
catalog share and even have
conversations around images with people
from all around the world
head to WWF like accom to get started
you have to create an account you have
to use a yahoo ID which you can create
if you haven't got one
now choose a name for your Flickr
account this is how other people will
see you and how you'll be identified
once that's done you can start to upload
your images you simply choose a range of
images from your computer you can also
select a range of privacy options to
make them private to only family friends
or contacts or public to be seen by
everybody
next you can set up tags titles and
descriptions for your photographs tags
are simply a collection of words that
you can assign to your images that
describe the content actions or location
of the images that you're uploading tags
are used in searches to help other users
find your images amongst the thousands
or millions of images online you can
also organize your photographs in what's
called the set a set allows you to group
your photographs together much like a
photo album and by giving it a
descriptive name you'll help others find
your images in a nice cohesive way once
you've finished naming and putting
descriptions on your photographs you can
scroll down to the bottom of the page
and save now you'll see your set with
all the photographs details copyright
and description options you can change
any of these by clicking the edit button
next to the appropriate section on a
photograph or set when it comes to
setting copyright for your own images
you can choose to withhold a license
which means your work is covered by
copyright or you can give it a Creative
Commons license once you've chosen your
license you can then right click on the
image and find out exactly what
restrictions the license you've chosen
has by visiting the Creative Commons
website a very powerful community based
aspect of Flickr especially for teaching
is groups you can set up three different
types of groups in Flickr public where
anybody can see the group and anyone can
join automatically public but by
invitation only where everyone can see
the group that you have to invite them
to join or completely private which is
best for teaching perhaps a completely
private group is one that cannot be
searched cannot be found by users and
has to be invitation only for people to
join once you've given your group a
title and description you're ready to
move on to the next step you can create
names for the administrators moderators
and
of the group and then set the rules by
which the members will participate
together once a group is set up you can
get to the group from the group's
drop-down menu at the top of the screen
once inside the group you can create a
discussion in which other members can
participate
and you can also add Flickr content to
the group pool this will allow you to
upload images that you already have in
your own profile to the group area other
members can also upload content for
discussion and Shari finally to add
other members to a private group you
have to invite friends new members of a
group can either have existing Flickr
accounts or you can email users without
Flickr accounts and ask them to join
Flickr which will enable them to then
join your group
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