flickr - Your New BFF

CC image courtesy by poolie on flickr 

Did you know students can upload pictures from their devices/iPads directly to your flickr account?  This is so powerful because students are able to collaborate on a group project, share their images, and make learning connections outside of the classroom.  Check out this lesson from Scholastic on collecting biological phenomena in everyday life.  Want to give it a try?  Here are 3 simple steps.

Step 1:  Create a flickr account.

• visit flickr
• click Sign In in the upper right corner.
• Sign in or click Create New Account.

Step 2: Enable mobile device upload to your account.
You can upload photos to Flickr from your camera using your unique email upload address. Set it up here.  Note: Make sure you are already signed into your account.

When you upload photos via email, the subject line is used as the title of your photo, and the body of the email is used as the description.

Step 3:  Share unique e-mail address with students.

I have seen this process used on field trips and exploring the school building.

Pro Tip - Set up standards before you allow your students to email images to your flickr account.  Example - search the building for lines of symmetry.  Your group is limited to sending in two images. Without this limit you may receive 20+ images per group.  With a limit the group will need to be very selective in what they share.