1. A Flickr Tutorial
for Teachers
This Tutorial will show you how to:
 Sign Up for a Flickr account
 Upload, tag, share, and work with your images
 Search for Creative Commons-licensed images for your teaching
 Search for historical and cultural images in The Commons for your teaching
 View a slideshow of your work, your student’s work, or your favorite images
from your searches

2. To start, go to the
Flickr site at
www.flickr.com
Click here to
sign up for
an account

3. Sign up using your
Yahoo, Facebook or Joining Flickr is free.
Google ID. Simple! However, the site does
encourage you to
purchase a Pro account
for $24.95 per year.
Go to
http://www.flickr.com/help
/limits/ to compare Pro
and Free account
features.

4. Begin by
uploading a
photograph.
This is a Flickr
homepage!
Yours will look a
bit emptier to
start with.

5. Click
here!
Choose
photos from
your
computer.

6. This is your
photo waiting
to be
uploaded.
Select your privacy
settings– visible only to
you? Friends? Family?
Everyone? You choose.
Click to
upload.

7. Finished!
Let’s add a
description.

8. Add tags here,
words that you or
Create a new set
others might use to
here (a set is a
describe or find
label such as
your picture.
‘Kitties’ or ‘Class
Project’ that you
want to add this
Rename your photo
photo and
and write a
others into to
description if you like.
create a group).

9. Tags are separated
by commas. When
you are done click
Add.
You created a new set called
Kitties! When you are done click
Create Set.
New title
and
description.

10. Scroll down
and click
Save.

11. Notice we are now in
Your Photostream.
You
uploaded
your photo.
Nice work!
Next step—let’s
share and play
with our photo.

12. Sharing your photo is
easy. If you click on
Share, you get a link to
the photo. You can also
instantly share it on
Facebook and Twitter.
People you let view your photos can make
comments. Timmerschester thinks Charlie is
“So cute!” You can encourage students to
comment on each other’s photos.

13. Click on the Actions pull
down menu to do lots
more! You can view
photos in all sizes,
download them to
another computer (For
example, I uploaded
photos of a wedding in
Cleveland and a friend
downloaded them in
England—no problem),
order prints and do basic
image editing with them.
Next we’ll begin searching
for images that other people
have added to Flickr.

14. Type your search
terms here and
click Search, or
click the Search
button first to
bring up the full
Search page.

15. Click here to
open this full
Type in your Search page.
search terms
and click
Search.
Do you want to search
only your photographs?
Your friends photos? Or
everyone’s? Use the pull
down menu to choose.

16. You just did a search
for the word ‘orange’
for Everyone’s
Uploads. These are
the results. Your
orange cat is in here,
and so are thousands
of other photos
tagged ‘orange’.
However, remember
that not all photos
here are available for
your use. Let’s find
images that we can
use without worry.

17. Many
Flickr Just what
members I’m looking
allow for when
I’m
others to
teaching!
use their
work for
free under
some
version of
the
Creative
Commons
license.
This is
great for
teachers!

18. To search for Creative
Commons licensed
photos, go back to the full
Search page and click on
the Advanced Search
button.

19. Type your search
terms, scroll to the
bottom of the page
and click ‘Only
Search within
Creative
Commons-licensed
content.’

20. Look! Lots of
results for
‘orange’ and all
of these images
are available for
use under a
Creative
Commons
license. Cool!

21. If you find an photo you like, click on the
thumbnail to view a larger image and then click
on the Favorite star. Now you can find this image
easily later on.
Next we’ll go back to your
homepage and search another
area of Flickr called The
Commons.

22. Go to your
homepage and pull
down the Explore
menu and Select
The Commons
Definitional notes:
Creative Commons is a type of licensing assigned by the
Notice any recent activity on your creator of a work that allows for broader use possibilities
photos and the photos you have than exist with the standard "all rights reserved" full
commented on can be seen on your copyright.
homepage. The Commons is a site within Flickr to which many
museums and archives have contributed public domain
images for use and comment.

23. Museums
and
archives
from all
over the
world
contribute
photos to
The
Commons.
You can
use these
Search The
images for
Commons
your
here.
teaching.

24. Searching The
Commons for the
term ‘baseball’
brought up many
historic images you
could use as
prompts for a class.
Save as Favorites
any images you
would like to go
back to later.

25. Lastly, your students can now view
your selected Favorites and any
photos you’ve uploaded as a
slideshow.
Go to the You
drop down menu
and select Your
Favorites
OR
click on one of
your own named
sets of photos to
the right. This set
is called Kitties!

26. If you selected Your Favorites, you
will go to a page showing all of your
favorites. Click on Light Box to view
these as a slideshow.

27. Nice.

28. If you selected one of your
named sets, you will go to a
page showing all of the
pictures in your set. Click
on Slideshow.

29. Adorable.

30. Once you've finished the tutorial, please create your
own Flickr account. Upload a few photographs and
play! Post a link to it (make sure your photos are public)
on my Flickr Tools page on Blackboard Learn and
provide one example of how you might use Flickr in
your own teaching.
Thanks!

31. Whew! There are many, many more
things you can do with your Flickr
account as a teacher, but hopefully
this tutorial will help you feel
comfortable getting started.
Tutorial by Edith Serkownek.
If you have any questions,
please feel free to email me at
eserkown@kent.edu