Flickr: A Class-Created Image Collection

Learners might be asked to submit photos to illustrate real-world examples of principles covered in a given course.

Flickr is a service that allows people to upload photos to a webspace, make notes on them, and exchange remarks about them with others. Alan Levine (CogDogBlog) and others have written these uses.
Flickr.com

This tool can be used in for various learning purposes for tech-supported,hybrid or fully online courses.

The first one is illustrated here. If you wanted to allow a class to post photos on a particular topic (say architecture), the faculty could create an account that the class could use (the class needs the ID and the Password in order to upload their photos). I allowed for friends and family to see this collection, rather than making it full public.

Once I loaded a couple images in the account, I clicked on the RSS feed button on the Flickr upload page to get that URL and loaded it into this site so I could get the code for the items you see below. A person could embed this same code into WebCT so learners could see photos as classmates loaded them in without having to go outide the class. Note that one of these images has a hotspot/not embedded in it. More on that later.

Feed2Javascript