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To provide a framework I have posted here some of my ideas on getting the project started. Please provide your thoughts an insights so we can build a consensus and move ahead.

The project uses a Flickr that is Public but you can contribute by invitation only.
My thought is given our various AUP that we can provide better control with Public by invitation

After I set up the group each of us can be promoted to administrator

Start Date? Monday Feb 5
Project Name: Photo-A-Day for Schools

{What shall we call this project when I sign up for our flickr group? Any better suggestions)

Suggestions please........
I've played with some ideas but I am not sure how clever or descriptive we want to be...one simple idea is Daily Photos Connecting Schools DPCS

[Ruby] I've been wondering about "We have exciting real education" - WHERE

What else should we add?
Project Guidelines ( some of these ideas come from the Project 365 guidelines)

  • Take a picture a every school day
  • Post the pictures at least once a week
  • Photos numbered, dated and with a brief title to describe the picture for example #1 / 5 Feb 2007: Math in the school yard.
  • Tag photos in Flickr using: school-photo-a-day pads05Feb07
{Obviously, change the date in the tag to reflect the day the photo was taken!}
  • Weekly challenges- we can take turns writing them
  • Use the comments and discussions to promote interaction
  • Since we are dealing with children follow basic safety precautions- no full names or identifying data

[Ruby] We need to have some kind of start date and end date that would be possible for lots of people, given that in an international context terms will be at different times. Could there be a weekly challenge, and then a monthly summary/best-of ... so that a school could pull out without feeling that they've let down the project?


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DavidDMuir Second thoughts 1 Feb 11 2007, 4:14 AM EST by cburell
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Probably worth reading after my initial thoughts comment below. :-)

Is "spad" OK for an abbreviation for a Flickr? It sounds rude? Is that what we want to call this project anyway - School Photo a Day? Any other suggestions for a project name?

Worth suggesting common tags I think to make it easier to find stuff. I suggest adding the date in a tag as well as in the title to make it easier to find all the photos taken on a particular day.
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DavidDMuir Name of this thing! 1 Jan 31 2007, 3:35 PM EST by Babs2teach
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I spent ages thinking about this and failed to come up with anything that felt right. Then I thought - just re-arrange the letters we have. What about Photo-A-Day for Schools, i.e. (PADS)? We might even get a logo out of PADS. NotePADS? What do you think?
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DavidDMuir Some initial thoughts 2 Jan 31 2007, 12:52 PM EST by johnjohnston
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I agree that a "public by invitation" is probably the best way to go.

I know there was some concern about Flickr being blocked in some places. Does anyone know if email to Flickr is blocked? I ask because it is possible to send photo's by email to Flickr. Schools where Flickr is blocked may therefore be able to send by email and view by RSS feed. Not ideal, but may allow some sense of being in the project despite being blocked from Flickr. I'll try chasing John @ Sandaig up on this...

As for the Guidelines, I've made a couple of minor changes. Feel free to edit them out if you don't think they help. Also, would it be worth having another page with a couple of ideas to show what we mean by challenge?

Finally, it may be worth having a page to discuss how best to organise taking the pictures. For example, lots of children taking pictures and then selecting the best, or different groups in the school taking pictures, or a rota, or...
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