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Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing (flickr)

September 09th 2006 Posted in Ramblings, Social Networks, Wiki

ShareI have been building up a new section on the wiki on Photo Sharing in Education . There were a number of ideas that I built upon from the RSS Ideas for Educators guide and developed in this section.

I wanted to ensure, as I had done for other sections of the wiki, that I included examples of K-12 educators that are using photo sharing web sites. (I also included a Higher Education section for Chris Lott .)

As I had done for the social bookmarking section, I used a number of different strategies to track down educators that are using photo sharing with a focus on Flickr. Included are some of the strategies that I used.

  1. I took the names of educational bloggers and educators that I used in the social bookmarking tools section of the wiki and plugged them into Flickr, using the "People" search feature .
  2. Once a user was identified, I examined their profile in order to find more information about that user. A profile might include specific teacher information like Aaron Smith or the url of a web site/blog for more details about the user.
  3. Once a user was identified as an educator, I was able to search through that user's contacts in order to identify other educators. This works particularly well for profiles of well known educational blogger like Tim Lauer.
  4. Another method of tracking down educators was by joining Flickr groups and examining its members. A few groups were particularly useful: FlickrEdu, Flickr for Education, and Educational Bloggers.

And here is the big list, and my own Flickr site. Please let me know if I you would like to be added to the list or if I made any
errors.

Elementary Teachers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a_hardwick/ Anthony Hardwick

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43204815@N00/ Jeanne Simpson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobotelar/ Collin Bonner

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derrallg/ Derrall Garrison

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougn/ Doug Noon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carignan/ Craig Carignan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/khs/ Cathy Evanoff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/futureofmath/ James Tubbs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsc/ Jackie Campbell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theartguy/ Aaron Smith

Secondary Teachers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/westwoodschools/ Vicki Davis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34109488@N00/ Steve Dickie

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10838559@N00/ Darren Kuropatwa

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcdowell/ Dan McDowell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/budtheteacher/ Bud Hunt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67014778@N00/ Eric MacKnight

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30688696@N00/ Jo McLeay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulallison/ Paul Allison

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83129246@N00/ Neil Winton

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danahuff/ Dana Huff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnblake/ John Blake

Administrators

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timlauer/ Tim Lauer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherl/ Chris Lehmann

Educational Technology Geeks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrichard/ Will Richardson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwarlick/ David Warlick

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodotorg/ David Jakes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snbeach/ Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chambfamily/ April Chamberlain

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36103809@N00/ Karl Fisch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyjude/ Judy O'Connell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mguhlin/ Miguel Guhlin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/ Wes Fryer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/teach42/ Stephen Dembo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/ Stephen Downes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cchausis/ Charlene Chausis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erhubbell/ Elizabeth Ross Hubbell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gazza54/ Garry Chapman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/ Jenny Levine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/forestfortrees/ Jeremy Price

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/ Leigh Blackall

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokay/ Jo Kay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52755208@N00/ Joel Solomon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/janstearns/ Janice Stearns

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10557047@N00/ Doug Belshaw

http://www.flickr.com/photos/josiefraser/ Josie Fraser

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/ Dean Shareski

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timwilson/ Tim Wilson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorprichard/ Thor Prichard

Higher Education

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/ Alan Levine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbaker/ Paul Baker

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53313745@N00/ Christopher Sessums

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cshirky/ Clay Shirky

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fncll/ Chris Lott

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/ D'Arcy Norman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyprien/ Cyprien Lomas

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghwpix/ George H Williams

http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry/ Brian Lamb

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Comments

  1. D'Arcy Norman
    September 9th, 2006 | 9:00 pm

    woah. that’s a lot of edu-folk on flickr. wonder if that means anything…

  2. Glenn E. Malone
    September 9th, 2006 | 9:45 pm

    As the elementary Principal at Wildwood Park Elementary you can add me to your list.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildwoodwildcats/

  3. John Blake
    September 10th, 2006 | 5:29 am

    Flickr is a good resourse, but there are so many photo programs available. My college-aged daugher is a MySpace/FaceBook junkie. She likes them all except Flickr. My point is that lots of educators use photos online, but they just may not use Flickr. Check out the increasing number of videos online from teachers. I just check out the K-12 Group on YouTube.com. Google Video also has an educational section. Thanks for the resources! I can not wait to check out your Moodle resources. I use Moodle in our classroom.

  4. Alan
    September 10th, 2006 | 6:12 am

    I like how you share your strategies for finding these links- a crucial lessom for sharing. And thanks for including my photos, though most are not teaching related.

    But a manual list of links, is so…. hate to utter a decimal….1.0. How about creating a common tag others could use via del.icio.us to indicate? Then you get the wisdom (or nonsense) of crowds, rss, etc. etc. etc.

  5. Glen Gatin
    September 10th, 2006 | 3:26 pm

    Sign me up
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/78271825@N00/

  6. Juska
    September 10th, 2006 | 10:06 pm

    Greetings from Finland :)

    Could someone tell more about educational content on YouTube? I already joined K12 Group but there aren’t too many videos yet…

  7. Quentin D'Souza
    September 11th, 2006 | 3:48 am

    Hi Juska,

    Dean Shareski has a few posts that might be helpful. He started the K-12 group at YouTube.

    Also within Youtube you can start a discussion in your group. That is probably a good place to get some conversation going around purpose.

  8. Wyze Koopal
    September 12th, 2006 | 4:20 am

    I wanna be on the list, too!
    Could be Higher Education or EdTech Geeks :-)
    Check http://www.flickr.com/photos/wytze. Last set of pictures is of the recent European Sakai Days.

  9. Chris Lott
    September 16th, 2006 | 9:42 pm

    We also have an organizational account we use for things like a Biology microscopy lab set: http://flickr.com/photos/uafcde/sets/95396/ …

  10. Academic Aesthetic
    November 15th, 2006 | 10:53 am

    links from Technorati[IMG Blogs are an easy way to reach a broader audience] Blogs are an easy way to reach a broader audience, originally uploaded by Misterteacher. Quentin D’Souza over at teachinghacks.com spent some time back in September creating a list of Flickr accounts owned by educators. It’s in no way a complete list, but it’s sorted by age group (The age of the students, not the teachers!) and if you want to be added to the llist all you have to do is ask. By the way, even though

  11. coComment - Site comments by qdsouza
    February 22nd, 2007 | 7:34 pm

    links from Technorati View this article on its blog

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