What is Flickr?
Flickr is one of the world’s most popular photo sharing websites. By using this website, people can upload their photo’s from their computers and digital devices (e.g. Mobile Phone, Digital Camera) in a secure and flexible way. Users can upload photo’s to share with anyone that they want to around the world. They can show off their pictures in a bid to become a web celebrity, or they can securely and privately share their photo’s with designated friends and family. The developer’s of Flickr aim to enable users to upload photo’s onto the website in as many ways possible, providing users with an easy to use and flexible website to manage their photo’s.
Flickr provides users with almost unlimited access to images that can be used for e-learning initiatives such as presentations, blogs, wikis, emails, RSS feeds and any other elearning activities. Images can be easily accessed from around the world at any computer with an internet connection; giving elearning instructional designers an easily accessible resources of images.
