Classroom Flickr users might like to be reminded of the amazing Cooliris browser. The plugin (which works best in Firefox) adds a virtual 3D lightbox over your computer screen, over which images and video can be dragged and resized at will. It would be brilliant with an interactive whiteboard and is a really good way to find pictures, news stories and videos.
Imagine a lesson on waterfalls…
Launch Cooliris using the browser icon. Select ‘Flickr’ and type in ‘waterfall’…
Cooliris browsing Flickr for "waterfall"
Browse hundreds of photos (automatically selected by Flickr’s “relevance” algorithim - so they’ll be good ones!) Students choose the one they’d like to sketch.
Which turned out to be this one…
Selected image
It’s difficult to do justice to the coolness of this application. Go to the Cooliris site and download it!
Hi Noel,
Thanks so much for writing about us! We truly appreciate it!
I hope you and your readers enjoy Cooliris! We’ve got lots more in store, so stay tuned!
Thanks again,
Jenny & The Cooliris Team