In Chapter 7, Richardson’s BWP takes us into an adventure in pictures at Flickr.com.  I’ve browsed around this site before but didn’t really realize that you can use Flickr as a repository of your own photos; for example, a classroom can create a “photo stream” for field trips, special speakers, projects, etc. (100).  I also had no idea that you can tag pictures and then have chosen tags fed to your GoogleReader aggregator account using an RSS feed.  Wow.

I especially love the annotation feature in Flickr that “allows you to add notes to parts of the image simply by dragging a box across an area and typing text into a form” (101)  I’m going to give that one a try.  I’ve seen this done with team pictures (each name pops up on the screen) but it could be a wonderful teaching tool in the classroom. 

Check out Alan Levine’s “What Can We Do with Flickr?” which is run entirely through an annotated picture.  Click here to begin.