Sharing Pictures at Flickr

Some of the free platforms that host our blogs have a limited amount of space. This means that we have an upload limit of videos, music, pictures etc...

In order to have all these items in our blog we publish them in other sites and link or embed them to our blog afterwards. In this session we will learn to use one of these sites that allows us to share images.

Flickr is a tool hosted by Yahoo. We can share pictures with our friends and have them displayed in our blogs.

The first thing to do is signing up at the following address http://www.flickr.com

To create your account you must first have an e-mail address at Yahoo. If you already have a yahoo account you can use the username and password to sign in.



If you don't have a yahoo account you have to create one


Now you can make your Flickr account using your yahoo username and password.

Deadline for the following tasks: Wednesday 28
Task 0: Update your blog with a new post

Task 1: Upload 5 pictures and organize them in a new set called ''yourname''_blogworkshop
Send an invitation to your teacher to see the pictures. Contacts> Invite your friends
Task2: Publish your pictures in your blog.
If you use Blogger, find a gadget to display a slideshow. Then set Flickr as the source and publish it. If you use Wordpress, you should look for the ''embed code'' copy and paste it in a new widget. Then save changes to have it published.

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

2nd Term Objectives:

• Continuous updating of your blog: minimum one post per week.

• Use of gadgets, widgets and other complements for the blog (videos, pictures, music, presentations...)

The first thing to do today is to think about the information you need in order to update your blog. From now on you will have to write and publish, using correct English, at least one post per week.
Before writing: organize the content, use different paragraphs for different ideas and try to make it attractive.

Task: Write at least one post in one of the sections in your blog. Watch out for mistakes!
Deadline: Wednesday, 21st January

If you have already written a new post and you have no problems publishing them then you can start having a look at the available gadgets or widgets in your blog platform.

Task: Choose the gadgets you like or better fit your blog and publish them
Deadline: Wednesday, 21st January