Week 4: Photo Sharing

Bru Crue Coffee Bar
Originally uploaded by ajshutchpl

I decided to do the option B in this weeks activities. I wanted to be able to include whatever I may learn into something that could benefit the library, too. Getting the time to take the photos I wanted/needed to create a virtual tour was not as easy as I had anticipated. We don't have our lights on until 15 minutes before opening to conserve on energy, this allowed only 15 Minute intervals to catch glimpes of the areas without staff or patrons in the areas.

Eventually, I finally got most of the pictures that I had wanted to share.

I was then able to create the account for Flickr.com and upload my pictures. I like the group tagging that you are able to do, so that all my pictures could be tagged 23thingsks. I then tagged each individual photo and gave a brief description. I had some trouble getting into and back out of this Organizing/tagging area of FLICKR. However, I managed to get through them. I have also been playing around with the Animoto site in creating a video of the photos, as well as another site I found called STUPEFLIX.

I think that FLICKR has some issues in making things easier to work with and to upload. I also wish they had more storage for free. Most pictures now days have larger sizes and you can't get very many in the 100 MB that you get for free, as compared to PICASA by Google.



Here is my test video using ANIMOTO.

I selected one of their templates and uploaded photos and that is all. This has a lot of photos and since they allow only 30 secounds for the free videos. It progresses too quickly. But it gave me experience for the next one that I try.