Waoh what a huge source of images! The site is truly rich in photographic content. And whoever thought of tagging was a pure genius! Groups are also a convenient way to homogenize diverse images into common interests between different people.
It's a great tool to use in class by creating virtual tours. I intend to use it to create a biome virtual tour, specifically aquatic, in our Environmental class.
The general photo presentation layout is great. Save for the fact that to display each photo the page has to reload all over again. That is just cumbersome and tends to test my patience. I suppose because google's picasa is faster and I am so used to it.
Features wise though Flickr has alot more than picasa. Overall it was a nice experience to explore and discover more about Flickr.
Aquatic Biome
cc jrphoenix12
Land Biomes by Ennor (unwell)
Librarians have used "tags" for years but we called them subject headings and they weren't created by a group. There are standard subject headings so they aren't collaborative like the tags. I think it won't be long until our library catalogs will be filled with the "tags" of users instead of our old subject headings.
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