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Simple Flickr Search update, now with stamping

Thursday 24 December 2009 at 02:35 am. Used tags: , , , ,

A while back I made a simple flickr search tool this is not as slick as some of the beautiful search tools out there but it was designed for pupils to use to get images to embed into their blogs and to create the attribution, clicking on a thumbnail gives this:

Flickr Ccstamp

Which has a text box with the html code to embed the image and attribution, you can choose to align left of right and to use small or medium images.

The tool if far from perfect an needs quite a lot of work but it has proved useful to quite a few folk and I believe used in glow training by LTS. Recently at the suggestion of a fellow ADE I added a more somber style to the rather bright colours I had used (a link at the top right of the page toggles the styles and sets a cookie to remeber your preferences).

At the Scottish Learning festival I was delighted to see Neil Winton's pupils using my tool and working with the images. This gave rise to the thought that it might be useful to create images that could be used without the embed code that show attribution. I've added a feature, above you can see stamp medium and stamp original links. Clicking on these will produce an image with the attribution stamped on.

Stamped by flickr cc
my crop

So I am wondering would this be useful in your class and two, is this legal (stamping a No Derivs photo? ) and is the wording (Flickr photo by name - license) and I would appreciate your comments on both of these questions.

three comments

gravatar for Tim Lauer

Hi John,

I remember seeing this tool a bit earlier and am impressed with the work you have done. I plan to share this with my staff and will add it to our list of resources for student use. A question I have is regarding the “safety” level for the searches. Is it automatically set to “safe”?

One suggestion would be to maybe have the text selected automatically, or a copy text button of some type. I have seen this on sites that allow you to grab code and it might be easier for some students.
Great work.
Tim Lauer

Tim Lauer (URL) - 27-12-’09 20:51

gravatar for John

Thanks Tim,
The flickr API says Un-authed calls can only see Safe content but I’ve just set safe_search to safe just to be on the safe side;-)
I’ve added a function so that when you click the code it is all selected. copy seems problematic x-platform at the moment.

John (URL) - 28-12-’09 02:38

gravatar for Alan Hamilton

Hi John
I use your earlier incarnation of this search all the time with my classes. It seems to me that this makes it even easier for people to properly acknowledge the source of an image and that can only be a good thing. On the downside does it mean you cannot click a link to the original? On the other hand it seems to tick all other boxes and is a very neat, practical solution.

Alan

Alan Hamilton (Email) (URL) - 29-12-’09 19:21



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