PLE (Personal Learning Environment) 2.0

I'm at it again...join me.

Last summer or was it two summers ago??? I convinced a peer to take an online learning adventure, School Library Learning 2.0 (SLL2) with me. It was offered (and still is) by the California School Library Association and is modified from Learning 2.0's 23 Things.

I believe that I first learned about this online course, PLE2, through twitter. It was originally offered in February and March 2008, however, the course was setup with self-directed learning modules and supportive websites of the Web 2.0 tools that the course included. There are six modules altogether.

The first module includes general resources about Web 2.0 and various tools that can be used with pictures. SLL2 covered Flickr, Flickr mashups, and 3rd party sites. PLE2 includes tools that I didn't remember using so I tried them all.

The home of fd's Flickr Toys includes toys, games, and utilities which allow you to mashup digital pictures. I had already used several toys so I tried a couple of others: Hockneyizer and Mosaic Maker. Here's a link to my Hockneyized pic and a mosaic I created with a few of my favorite Flickr pics. Big Huge Labs works well with my Flickr photos and you can upload from your machine, Photobucket or URL.

Dumpr offers a couple of photo effects similar to BigHugeLabs, but many that are completely different. Here's a sketch I created from one of my photos. I didn't register for the site, though, I had to authorize access to my Flickr photos. You can also upload from Picassa, MySpace, Zooomr, or URL.

"makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun."

And it really is!!! Picnik is going to be a favorite of mine. It's so easy to edit and doctor a photo. You don't have to register, just start using it.

Here are the original and the edited photos.



This collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers for educational use.

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Photo mashups

Web Photos Now Have Zero Credibility - Now anyone can rewrite history, taking only seconds for each precious photo.

Just had to add this news article first seen in American Libraries Direct, July 18, 2007, to the blog a-c we covered flickr and flickr mashups. I think that the two programs described in the article above could be considered the "ultimate" photo mashups, however, I'm not sure that they are available yet.

Week 3 - Thing #5 Hooray, At Last

I finally figured out that I was using the incorrect url for photos located on Flickr. Here's my cat, Adrian and the interesting photo from Flickr, The Writing Is On The Wall – If You Can See It, You Can’t Read It Originally uploaded by Peter from Wellington

Week 3 - Thing#5 (LAST continued)

I'm trying Blogger's add image feature using one of my own photos. Actually it's not a photo, but an icon image. The only library-related image I have right now. Blogger's add image works fine if I browse on my computer, but not when I try to use a photo from Flickr with a web address. Don't know why!!!! I'm going to move on...maybe I'll figure it out later.

Week # - Thing #5 (Continued)

The Writing Is On The Wall – If You Can See It, You Can’t Read It
Originally uploaded by Peter from Wellington

Here I am again (third time) trying use Flickr's blogging tool to add that interesting photo. I'm not going to do any editing of this entry because every time I do I lose the photographer's credits. They get extremely small so one can't read them.

Week 3 - Thing#5 Photos & Images

I have been exploring Flickr and it's features. I was surprised to find out that tags can be more than just keywords; i.e. medium, genre, subject, name, or location. Groups can be anyone or anything and used in various ways. I really liked the 365 Days of Library Pictures. Someone should start a 190 Days of School Library Pictures. Me??? I could spend days looking at the photos and exploring how to use Flickr.

On one of my visits I found a great photo that I'd like to post here, but I haven't yet created an account. I tried to use the Blogger Upload tool, but wasn't successful. I'll try again after I create a Flickr account. Below is the link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_from_wellington/519693491/. (discovered the insert link feature and edited the original post)