I have been exploring Flickr, the image-sharing website and it's been quite fun. Reading the tags, and observing how people tag their photos has been amusing. According to their most popular tags, the website has many photos of family, parties, and weddings. The last time I checked, Japan was on the of the biggest countries tagged too. You can be creative when tagging your photos, and it seems that Flickr covers a range of adjectives, nouns, and verbs. I even searched with the keyword "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and I got 35 results!!!!
The photo that caught my attention was a picture of a group of men browsing through children's books in a bookstore in the Philippines. I found the picture via Flickr's search tool, when I typed in the keywords "library" and "Philippines." I chose these two keywords because they are two of my favorite places in the world. I thought this picture was surprising and it made me wonder why these young men (in uniform) were avidly looking through these children's books. Are they looking for a books to read to their kids? Were they just attracted to the cute illustrations? Or perhaps they are seeking books with which they can practice their English? I wonder.
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Having used flickr to store some of my family or vacation photos online so that others could see them, I hadn't approached this site as a searchable resource. To see how you are utilizing it that way is great! Could be quite a writing prompt, like when you started wondering why the men were browsing children's books, it could turn into a whole stor. I remember reading another blogger berating herself for forgetting to cite her source when she included a photo in her blog, but if you link directly to the source then you don't really have to.
Sounds like you looked at Flickr very thoroughly. Can you see a way to use this with students?
I have started using Flickr's Creative Commons search at http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ as a quick, copyright friendly image search.
Keep up the journey
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