Thing #6- Flickr Mashups

Prompt: In your post, talk about some ways Flickr and/or Flickr mashups could be used in your library program.

Flickr mashups are the results of exceptional thinking. A brief description of a mashup (crazy name, I know), is combining Flickr with another electronic application. A plethora of these mashup can be found at BigHugeLabs and you can link your Flickr account to that site.

Browsing through the different mashups, I came across many that my students and I could use in my library. My favorites: Billboard, Cube, Badgemaker, Hockneyizer, and Motivator. These can be used for library signage, to promote books, or for functional uses such as a ID's for parent/community volunteers and student workers.

Thing #5- Flickr

Prompt: Write about what you found.

I found really awesome pictures on flickr. This ironically is one of the pictures that stuck with me. It is a photo of a classroom poster that a teacher uses to teach the writing process.

Another picutre that I loved was of Lady Bird Johnson reading a book to a class of preschoolers at a Head Start Center.