I'm fascinated by Miguel's Idea and wondering how it can best be done.
Miguel says:
“So, it occurs to me as I skim through the images in PassionQuilt08 on Flickr…what about a screensaver made of all these positive images? Wouldn't that be a conversation starter?
The only problem…I'm not sure how to best go about this. Create a folder, drop the images in there, and then point your screensaver software to it? Thoughts?”
I think that the trick would be to have automatic updates and perusing the Internet, something like PhotoCafe might do that.
Just thought I'd repeat Miguel's call and also ask Miguel — what about photo spam? Would it be better to have a moderated group so that when new photos are downloaded that someone is moderating them?
Should we have a moderated photo group and some way to have an automated screensaver from them. Would it eat up a lot of resources?
I don't know, but I would be interested in having some up to date screensaver that is motivational on the computers of my students like this. Just thinking out loud.
tag: inspiration, education, ideas, Miguel Guhlin, passionquilt2008, passionquilt08, Flickr
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I use Flickr’s RSS feeds for certain tags and load them up to the free Google Screensaver (part of the Google Pack software). From the screen saver you can subscribe to a Flickr RSS feed and voila, you have a dynamic screensaver that will display all the images tagged a certain way. For example, in Miguel’s example, to subscribe to the Passion Quilt meme tag, visit the page http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/passionquilt08/ and look for the RSS feed link toward the bottom of the page. The link you are looking for is http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=passionquilt08&lang=en-us&format=rss_200. Copy this link and paste it in the right spot in Google Screensaver. Works like a charm!
No reason to download– There are windows and mac screen savers that draw images from flickr;
http://www.google.com/search?q=flickr+screensaver
I use on my Mac Flickr Shufflesaver
http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/software/shuffelsaver/shufflesaver.html
I did something a bit different. Instead of positive images, I use a piece of software on all the student desktop PCs that brings relevant RSS feeds to the desktop.
Since I teach Information Technology, I have built some custom RSS feeds that ensure my kids have some exposure to what’s going on the world of technology and IT.
The software is: http://www.nuparadigm.com/Products/Toys/RssScreensaver/
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