Slide.com

I liked slide.com. It was easy to upload and choose what you wanted to do. And I kind of like the fact that I didn’t have to join to create something on the site. However, if you were going to keep your pictures there then you had better join. I guess I do not prefer one over the other right now. Slide.com I think was easier to use, specially loading to my blog, but might not have the same or as much stuff that flickr has. I probably would have to use both a little more before I could say for sure which one I would prefer to use.

Flickr.com

I think I am liking Flickr a lot. It is kind of cool to have your pictures on line if you would like. Although I am still not too sure about keeping my stuff on the internet where anyone could possibly get a hold of it. I suppose you could find all kinds of pictures out there. You could dream up all kinds of places to visit or compare the places you have been with others who have been there.
I guess that at this moment there aren’t too many dislikes. I always have trouble at the beginning of any new thing and this is true of this site too. The more I play with it I am sure the easier it will be. The good thing for me,finally, was that I already had a yahoo account so I didn't have to set that up.
I would love to use this with students. Although I don’t have my own classroom I could visualize how I would have used it in my previous job. Taking pictures and uploading them for all the classes to see would be fabulous. My biggest concern is the other pictures that could be found on this site and that they may not be appropriate for a classroom setting. My point was made the first time I went to the Flickr site-the topless woman. Not that the picture was in poor taste, just not a good thing if you give this as an assignment.
I think I might continue to use it in my personal life. I am not really into change much but this has grabbed my attention.
The picture of the railroad tracks is from flickr. By golly I did it!

This is the link to my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aznative/

Tagging

On my mission to learn about tagging this is what I found with these different sites:

Del.ico.us- found my topic easily- “edgy” books and young adult books
I liked this site. It mostly found what ever it was that I was looking for like “edgy” books and young adult books. There wasn’t necessarily bunches on each topic but I got the basic idea of how to use it.

Technorati- search was usually all over the place; never did see anything about “edgy” books, lots of “books” though
I was not amazed with Technorati and kind of a little disappointed. Mostly what I searched, young adult books, ASU football, flat classroom, came up with many different things mostly having nothing to do with what I was looking for. Not that this is the website’s fault. Maybe I just was thinking of the wrong things to type in.

Flickr- amazing pictures
There wasn’t really one picture that I found the most interesting. I tried all the “common” pictures like Hawaii, Egyptian Tombs, ASU, just to see what I would find, which was pretty much what I expected of Hawaii and the tombs, but ASU had some things I might not have thought of. I also tried the educational ones for me like young adult literature, edgy books, flat classroom and got a lot of pictures but mostly of the same event that someone tagged “literature”

Playing with this could land you some pretty cool things. I can easily see how someone could spend hours looking at any one of these and lose a whole day or night or two or more! I just kept wanting to go back and see what else I could type in and see what came up.