Fun with Flickr and photos

Our focus this afternoon was photos and images and the many Web 2.0 tools that allow users to do all kinds of things with them. I've spent time working with Flickr and set up my own account with a set of photos. I've uploaded, renamed, and grouped images. I've created the same album twice by mistake, erased one of them, and cleaned up the remaining set so that it is what I want it to be. I even deleted a photo I don't need and have set my viewing rights like I'd like them.

I can tell that adding photos and images will add a richness to any Web 2.0 publication I create, but it will make the process more time consuming. For personal use, I'm going to have to manage all those photos I've got on memory cards and on my home computer hard drive, most likely by uploading them into Flickr so that I can work with them as I'd like. For school, I'll have to take or find engaging photos and follow copyright to incorporate into lessons and plan for the page development with them when I rejuvenate units of study. I can start with simple applications incorporating blogs and a single photo at a time and work from there. I think that would help me learn the management of it, but part of me wants to create really neat, comprehensive Web 2.0 lessons. I think I feel a paradigm shift coming on!