Images of QR codes

We have been experimenting with QR codes here at University of Bedfordshire. If you need some neat images of QR codes I recommend you go to Robin Ashford's set of QR codes on flickr here.

Information Literacy flickr group

Sheila Webber has started a flickr group for Information Literacy.
It will be interesting to see what kind of photos get deposited! I can remember doing Google searches for images for information literacy over the years and getting very little except conference pictures and occasionaly enthusiastic librarians.We do need good images to promote information literacy. I used to use the Beloit College image with the cut away head .

What we need are some imaginative images which we could use to illustrate information literacy e.g.the maze at Hampton Court?
Some time ago there was a discussion on lis-infoliteracy from Mark Hepworth about images around which teaching IL could be based : mapping the information landscape ; cooking metaphor - what ingredients do you need? ; sporty readers where they have to describe their research habits in terms of a sport e.g/a fly fisher dips in ; information as part of the environment - can be polluted or degraded etc.
I know that a number of presenters use large pictures to illustrate concepts in their Powerpoints, this could be the place to put the images. Perhaps we should have an annual prize....
Please dont look at me to populate the site over the next few weeks though!

More historical photos on flickr and Wikipedia

An article in New York Times "Historical photos in Web archives gain vivid new lives" by Noam Cohen 18/1/2009 tells of the Commons facility on flickr and most recently the huge donation of about 100,000 photos from the German archive to Wikimedias Commons the vitual archive for images on Wikipedia. In both cases the sharing of these resources is leading to improved cataloguing information about the images, as members of the public assist in recognising the content of the images.

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Orchids in Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Experiences of using Web 2.0 in Information Literacy

Before I set up this blog I considered using a wiki for collecting information on how Web 2.0 was being used in our Information Literacy interventions. I doubted whether anyone would add their stuff to a wiki, so I went for a blog. I am sure that out there many of us are trying out the various tools and it would be great to hear about this. Why not put a comment after this post or e-mail me godwin.peter@gmail.com

Here are two recent blog posts which draw on the experiences in our book :

Kim Ranger (Reflections of a Quaker Librarian) writes here of experiences using a wiki and flickr inspired by Cameron Hoffman's session at WILU in May 2007.

An academic librarian (Burning Windows) in the Tennessee Valley writes of first experiences using flickr in helping understanding of keywords.

Flickr Storm

Take a look at this! It makes using images from flickr in your presentations so much quicker and easier! And you can limit to Creative Commons images.
With this post I have now passed the 100 mark on this blog! I hope there have been items which have helped you. I hope some have amused you too!

New pics on flickr

Following the success of Library of Congress images on the flickr The Commons project, there have been some more additions from The Smithsonian Institution, Brooklyn Museum, George Eastman House, and other historical collections.

Creative Commons images on flickr

There is a Creative Commons search here which allows searching a number of sites including flickr, all from one page. It might save you a bit of time.
Otherwise there is a new site here "fashioned by Ryan & Bryan with glue sticks and rubber bands, " (I quote) which is good for tag searches and limiting to Creative Commons material.

Free use flickr

Taking Creative Commons further, a Free Use group has been set up on flickr which has at the top "The photos in this group are available for use by anyone. There is no need to give credit or to fear rights infringement. These images are posted by their creators. By posting to this group, you're allowing freedom of use.We know that these images still have the "rights reserved" stamp on them. Frankly, we don't know how to get this removed yet. We're working on it. " There may be some images here which are of use in your teaching or presentations.