Thing 3: Flickr

Flickr is a photo (and video) sharing site. With Flickr, you could spend hours and hours looking at photos of every possible person, place, and thing you could imagine. Many libraries have Flickr accounts and regularly upload photos of events held at their libraries. Here is a link to several libraries that are using Flickr.

To complete this Thing, you have a couple of options.

Choice 1: Go to Flickr and explore. One way to explore is to choose something to search about, such as Texas, libraries, longhorns, puppies, flowers, etc. After you’ve searched and looked around for a bit, go to your blog and write about your experiences using Flickr. In your blog entry, provide a link to Flickr page that shows a favorite image.

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Choice 2: (More challenging, but more fun!) Create a Flickr account. If you have a Yahoo account, then you already have a Flickr account. Sign in to Flickr and upload some images to your Flickr account. How do you do this? You’ll want to take some pictures with a digital camera and put them on your computer. Then once you sign in to Flickr, click on the link to “Upload photos” and Flickr will guide you through. After you’ve uploaded some photos, go back to your blog and write about your experience. Provide a link to your Flickr photostream.