Tag: flickr
Your Daily Bread?
What online and tech tools do you use daily in your personal and professional life? Have they changed in the last two years? What has failed to ‘work’ for you? I am having a little tidy – before the New Year – and was thinking about 2011. This is a brief ‘Christmas’ post (a list […]
Travelling in China: Photography, Social Media and Shanghai
Last year I wrote a unit of work, after my travels in Shanghai, that I would like to share with you. It is written for NSW syllabuses but it may be of some interest to any teacher interested in travel, Asia, teaching visual literacy, social media or organising a student trip overseas. Here’s the PDF […]
Flickr CC Attribution Helper(s)
Many bloggers want to create their own images as frequently as possible, with camera or software, to accompany their written text. However, often, a near-perfect image is legally available online. Ensuring the image is attributed correctly is very important, especially for educators encouraging students to source images appropriately. Thanks to quick responses to a tweet […]
Learning HDR Photography
It is always wonderful to have a fresh enthusiasm to share. HDR photography (or HDRI) is new to me and in the last weeks of the holidays I learnt much about this art. Just a few years ago it would have been very difficult for me to learn about this quickly as I do not know […]
Flickr, tourism, my kids & Hansard
Something unexpected happened recently that I want to share with you. It is pretty self-indulgent, excuse me for that, but having my daughters mentioned in parliament is very exciting to my extended family. Some of you would have seen this article in our local newspaper, via my Facebook or twitter. Our Federal Member contacted me as she intended to […]
#iPhoneography
“The best camera is the one that’s with you.” Chase Jarvis iPhoneography I really want to learn more about iPhoneography. This art of capturing images, editing and sharing them using an iPhone, in my case a 4S, is obsessing millions. I too have been experimenting with a raft of amazing apps. Organising these apps into folders […]