Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Flickr Uploader for Student-Generated Photos


Indiana University East's home page integrates Social Media including Flickr. They won Edustyle.net's 2010 People's Choice Winner Jadu Best Integration of Social Networking.

Their most notable feature is their Flickr uploader, which allows students to upload photos through email, cell-phone, or via a form on the website. Photos then appear on their main Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/iueast within a few days or sooner.



IUE does not appear to have a separate Flickr account exclusively for students, so it's hard to tell which photos may have been submitted by students. Phoenix College would use a separate account, which would be provides better ability to feature strictly student-generated photos, as well making it easier to mitigate issues that might come up.

I contacted the IUE Communication and Marketing Staff to find out how their "Flickr upload" process works. According to one of their staff, here's how it works:

"My role with Flickr is to moderate photos that get uploaded. Typically, they are photos that I’ve taken for various events so there isn’t a lot of monitoring to do from outside sources. If a student did want to post something, they are to e-mail me the photo. We have no set guidelines other than making the sure the content of the photos reflect positively on the IU East message. …I manually upload from my computer."


It appears IUE does not have an "automated" process. They just receive the photo by email through one of the various sources, and then upload it themselves.


EDIT: June 2012
Some other places that use Flickr uploads in various ways:



Flickr API
http://www.clarkson.edu/flickr/photo_upload.php?set_id=72157627576240328
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alumnievents/sets/


Groups
http://www.law.pace.edu/flickr/
http://my.nature.org/birds/engage/flickr.html
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/workingdifferently/training/flick-your-photos-onto-flickr
http://clubhosting.org/info/support/flickr-group-app-creation-guide/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bualumni/pool/
http://www.bu.edu/alumni/connected/photos/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/35034353808@N01/
http://www.winona.edu/share-flickr.asp
http://pictures.vcu.edu/submit/index.html
http://www.flickr.com/groups/fowlermuseum/pool/ (UCLA)a



Tags
http://pictures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit-a-picture/


Contest
http://summer.oregonstate.edu/connect/2009/benny-photo-contest-rules.htm