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Library & School Examples

• Vocabulary Pictures - Springfield Township High School Library
• Math photo project -  blog post about the project
• Unquiet Library
• Northfield Mt. Hermon Library
• Everett Middle School Library
• Miss McLaughlin's photos
• Mrs. Cassidy's Class Photos
• Pesky Library
• Student project with comments
• Patron photos Thomas Ford Public Library 
• Photo Tour of Library North Plains Public Library
• Historic Photos Town of Ogden, NY
• READ Posters Photo Pool of personalized READ posters
• Teen Photo Contest Lansing Public Library
• Building/Expansion Project Bloomington PL 
• For many more examples, search flickr.com for users for with library in their name.  

flickr Groups

• Libraries and Librarians
• Summer Reading Programs
• New York State Libraries
• Library Book Displays
• Librarian's Desks
• Classroom Displays
• Reinventing Project Based Learning 

More ideas

• Examples of flickr slideshows and badges
• Use flickr pics to jazz up your PowerPoint presentations. All text & bullets is deadly! Take a look at this example :  If Lincoln had Powerpoint (and GarageBand)
• Get flickr-tastic! Andrea Mercado
• 31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries
• My Friend flickr  On setting students loose in the educationally thrilling but fundamentally ungovernable photo-sharing network. 
• Flickr + Libraries = Scary, Scary, Scary to Some People
• Flickr Tutorials http://www.indezine.com/mediamazine/2006/05/flickr-tutorials-series.html
• Steal this idea: flickr for libraries http://tametheweb.com/2006/09/steal_this_idea_flickr_for_lib.html 

Image generators, slide shows, flickr fun and more

• fd’s flickr Toys:  The most well known collection of flickr and photo tools.
• The Great flickr Tools Collection 
• Flickrbits webapps
• Third Party flickr Tools
• Image Chef Your slogan on an image. I like the coffee cup one!
• flickrslidr  Easy to embed flickr slideshows in your web site or blog.

Photo Search Tools

• flickr Advanced Search
• flickrCC
• flickr storm
• Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound - Great collection of resource sites.

More to Explore

• Create sets for your photos. View a photo, select the “add to sets” option above the photo. Name a new set, click ok.
• Create posters, magazine covers, etc with 3rd party tools (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/). Upload projects to flickr. Great teen project. Handy for creating promotional posters for events.
• Use your flickr photos to create a slide show for your web page with PictoBrowser. http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser/ Enter a bit of information about your flickr account to create code that can be pasted into your web page. Example of a library tour at: http://nplibrary.org/tour-the-library/
• Geotag your photos. Flickr lets you place your photos on a map, providing another way for users to find your photos.
• Explore the idea of visual storytelling. View the group “Visual Storytelling: Tell a story in 5 frames”: http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory
• Color Fields Colr Pickr - http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ Have fun!
• Pixenate -  http://pixenate.com/ An online photo editor.

For more on flickr: flickr Resources (on this Wiki)