Flickr: Saying thank-you

thank you smile,
originally uploaded by dhyanji.

Anne Davis has a blog with the name Edublog Insights, but it's web address is anne.teachesme... well she has certainly been teaching me through some extraordinarily helpful comments she left here on my blog. She left some great feedback in What am I going to do now? but the one that prompted this post was her response to Free to use... with Flickr.

She started me thinking about the way I use other peoples' images. Even when the photograph has a Creative Commons licence, I realise I should still say thank-you. So from now on, starting with the image I am using in this blog post, I'm going to make sure I leave a comment to say thank-you to the people who are generous enough to share their pictures. For instance, my comment on this picture says:

Thank-you for making this picture available under a Creative Commons licence. I was looking for an image that said "thank-you" to use in a blog post and this image was just what I needed. Thank-you.

I also linked back to this post so that the photographer can see his or her work in context.

In her comment, Anne also talks about tagging photographs to make their educational possibilities clearer. I suggested a few generic possibilities, but subsequently I have decided to appropriate one to tag my posts on educational uses of Flickr. I have decided to go for EduFlickr and will add this to the other posts I have already made on this topic. Hopefully that will make it easier to find posts in this irregular series or to track it through an RSS feed.

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Technorati Tags: EduFlickr, Flickr, photo sharing, education, Anne Davis, thankyou, DavidDMuir, EdCompBlog

P.S. I accidentally "replaced" this post with a new one I was working on. Not sure why this happened, but hopefully this post is now back to the way it was.