Woophy and Flickr: Finding a Good Visual in Time? - Kioskea

Dr Harry Grover Tuttle

Filed under : Kioskea - Tribune >> Web >> Search engines >> Woophy and Flickr: Finding a Good Visual in Time? Key words : searching , gif , google , googleimages , images , jpeg , pics , pictures , png , search engines , flickr , woophy , Woophy and Flickr: Finding a Good Visual in Time? 10 Mar, 2008 11:55 am

The World Wide Web is definitely an amazing tool to find pictures. A large amount of users just browse the Google Image search engine. But there are some (less known) application on the web that can be used for such purpose. Here is a short presentation of two of them: Flickr and Woophy.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how long should a teacher or student search for a meaningful image to communicate an idea? Yes, Flickr has a search engine.

Yes, Woophy searches Flickr through a map or a search.

There are a host of other searching flickr sites.

Flickr is a wonderful site that contain many images. However, the question still remains how long will a teacher or student be searching for an image?

I've been preparing a presentation on Visual Literacy and I've been using Flickr. I can verify that I have spent much time in finding the image that communicates the idea I want. For example, I want to give a quick overview of the geography of Mexico. When I search Woophy for Mexico, geography there are 102 images. Many of them do not show geography; for example, I see racing cars, models, traffic jams, a wall, etc. It is the search engine that is showing me geography or Mexico? It is that the pictures were tagged with geography? There is no way to see all of the images at once so I have to scroll down and see ten and then scroll to the next ten. Eventually I found what I needed but it took a long time. Do teachers and students have that much time in the classroom?

Article originally published on: Education with Technology

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I'm also a teacher and I'm also using Flickr with the student in the "Digital Images" class. I really agree with you: Flickr is a definitely a powerful search engine for images. Thanks for the article by the way...
Comment by Dan - 10 Mar, 2008 12:01 pm

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