Thing # 5 Photos with Mashups and Flickr

Lets have more fun with Flickr and web 2.0 tools by third party programmers that link the qualities of Flickr's large data base of photographs with some interesting and valuable effects.  For example, you could take a photograph and draw the outline of a jigsaw puzzle over the image as if your photo were a puzzle.

Do you get picture? Now a clever person could work that picture into a power point as the teaser slide that asks "do you get the picture?"

So check out this cool option. This tool, Spell With Flickr,  lets you select a photo of a letter from Flickr's data base.  You can spell out a word or just use one letter.




A mashup is a term coined by hackers about twenty years ago to describe a site that is composed of feeds from at least two distict sources.  Much like this page that uses photos from flickr composed by Mashups.com and delivered by Blogspot.

Mashable dot com is a site that lists 100+ tools for flickr users.  With a little imagination and an educator's eye, most of these tools can easily be ported into the classroom.  I was amazed at how fast I could make Mashups spell the word mashups in a jpg.

Flickr is so popular now-a-days that if you can imagine it, there is probably a tool that can make it happen.

The last word on flickr is "remember a picture is worth a thousand words"