#6 (WEEK 3) Flickr fun, mashups, and 3rd party sites


· Mappr - takes Flickr images and allows you to paste them on a map
· Montagr – create a photo mosaics from photos found on Flickr.
Discover more mashups, web apps, and Flickr tools.

Discovery Exercise:
Your discovery exercise for this “thing” is to: Explore some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools that are out there. Create a blog post about one that intrigues you. You might want to check out FD ToysTrading Card Maker. There’s a ton of librarians out there that have created their own Librarian Trading Card. So have fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps. If you are up to the challenge while you’re at it, create a trading card of your own. :) or a movie poster or magazine cover from this Flickr site.* Mashup Note: Wikipedia offers some great articles that explain mashups. Basically they are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and mash it up with another (like a map) In this example, you get Mappr (

Curriculum Connections:

  • Idea #1: Use Flickr toys to make a magazine cover. Many classes make their own magazine. This would be perfect! Example for covers: "Crusade Times," "Heading West," or "Genetics Today." Students could create a magazine cover and headlines for a famous person, historical event, or story character. Your students could also add a subtitle that refers to the curriculum content standard or Model School Library Content Standard addressed by the project so your students could "send a message" to parents and administrators.
  • Idea #2: Create trading card sets. Liven up 5th grade mission projects, annual "animal" or "state" reports, and other topics that are ripe for change. Each student could create a card or student groups could design their own trading card pack. Trading the cards can be a fun game, but they can also be useful for recommended reading, books, illustrators, authors, and historical bios/dates. How would you use them? How about using them as Flash cards for vocabulary, periodical table, foreign language or ELL. [Consider engaging your parent-teacher organization or SITE Council in a project like this, as it is a fun way to increase student academic achievement.]
Suggested "tags" or labels: Flickr, images, trading cards