Flickr is a free system that lets you save your photos online so that they can be seen by others. You can keep your photos private so they can only be seen by those you allow or can make them public. You can also look at other people’s photos. You can find Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/

There are a number of educational uses for Flickr.

Because you can add comments to photos, you can post a photo (or series of photos) and then ask pupils to comment on it.

You (or the pupils) can attach notes to a picture. See here for an excellent example of this in use.

Here is an example of a photo which has notes attached but, more interestingly, is geotagged. Underneath the comment you can click on a link which will display a map showing where the photo was taken. If you have Google Earth on your computer, there is a link which will connect to Google earth and take you to the location. For anyone who’s interested, find out more about geotagging Flickr photos here.

Flickr is useful for storing and sharing personal photos but also has some interesting educational applications.