Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Introduction to Flickr/Instagram

My name is Rakeem Christmas welcome to my blog. Like many of you I am a first year graduate student in the IDD&E program. I look forward to getting to know more about your topics. The topic that I chose was Flickr/Instagram.

Per Wikipedia
Flickr: (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media


Per Wikipedia
Instagram:  is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.[7] A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. Users can also apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds.

This is the internet definition version of Flickr/Instagram but through the course of my blogging I hope to give you a more definite definition of how to use these platforms in various setting with other social networks. 


5 comments:

  1. Hi Rakeem,
    I don’t know much about Flicker, but I know that there are very beautiful pictures. I am excited about reading more about it in your blog.
    I have account in Instagram. I only use it to post my kids picture ☺ but I am curious about using it as an educational media.
    Sammya

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    1. Hopefully you find my blog helpful, and I plan to give everyone ideas on how these sites/apps can be used for educational purposes.

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    2. Great!
      I am excited about learning them in education.
      Thank you
      Sammya

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  2. Hi Rakeem,
    I am very interested in learning about Flicker. I know that a lot of the students in my class are familiar and fluent with it. I, however, have only used Instagram... and minimally! I am looking forward to learning how Flicker works and how it could be incorporated into my classroom, and my life!

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