flickr's magic

I've been working on my eLearning10 session today; trawling through sites and tools and papers about FlickR in education and gathering my thoughts. For many years now it, along with social bookmarking, has been at the top of my list for ways to engage educators in the world of e-learning.

After all this time there is little that comes even near it in terms of functionality and it seems that even Blackboard and Moodle have recognised it's benefits with both Bb9.1 and Moodle2.0 including search and mashup tools in their new in-built functionality. To be honest with increasing use, geolocation interest and 3rd party tools to supplement FlickR I can only see its usage growing further. Interestingly there are now over 1.6m creative commons images in FlickR available for use under various licenses; it makes my lowly 9,000 odd very trivial.

In my session I'll be focusing broadly on FlickR's potential uses but will look in particular at how it could be used to enable individual portfolios of work within courses. The presentation will be is now up in my slideshare account . My FlickR in Education guide is on my wiki and there's also a list in Diigo that may be of interest. Here's a start of a brainstorm of uses but I've love to hear more ideas if you have them.