I've been exploring Award Winning Web 2.0 sites, such as Google Chrome, Pandora, Flickr, Twitter, etc. Although there are many that I have worked with and enjoy (Pandora and Twitter are sites I use on a daily basis!), there are plenty that I have never used before, so naturally, I was excited to try some out.
I have always thought "what the heck is
Flickr? It's probably just another photo sharing site..." but it's totally not! I mean, yes, it is a photo sharing site, but it's so different than other sites! Instagram, for example, is also an app I use almost every day. However, it takes much more work to view pictures that simply interest me. It's more along the lines of a newsfeed on Facebook. However, with Flickr, you can search for any type of picture you may want to feast your eyes on. For example, I search "Northern Lights" because I was yearning for something that reminded me of home... this beautiful picture popped up:
That is something I could stare at forever. And
that gets me excited about the opportunities Web 2.0 has to offer. There would be so many uses for this in the classroom! Flickr gives you the ability to search for almost anything you can imagine...Am I the only one that gets excited over this?
xoxo, k
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