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***Update - I’ve posted a video of me using Splashr here***
I’ve mentioned Splashr, the presentation tool for Flickr photos, before. Tomorrow I’ll be using it for the first time during a lesson tomorrow when I introduce 1066 and the Norman Conquest to my Year 7 students. It’s a topic I really enjoy teaching and as a result am motivated (even more so than usual!) to innovate with my teaching of it. Here’s how I went about creating my 1066 presentation… 
1. Upload the photos you want to a dedicated Flickr account for presentation/educational use. Mine’s mrbelshaw:
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2. Add the same tag to all the files you want to use the presentation. Make it unique! In this example I’m using 1066:
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3. Go to Splashr and fill in the relevant boxes. In this example, I’m using 1066 for the tag and, of course, mrbelshaw for the username to search for. To get the effect I wanted, I chose the desktop option on those presented underneath the text boxes:
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4. Once you’ve pressed Next you should see a page similar to the one below. It gives the URL to your presentation as well as options for linking to it from your website/blog:
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5. So that I can get to it quickly and show my students how they can re-access it at home, I wanted to add a link to my learning.mrbelshaw.co.uk blog. I clicked, therefore on the Use this presentation on your own site option:
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6. Adding the link to my blog resulted in the following:
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7. And clicking on the link took me to:
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I’m certainly looking forward to using the resulting presentation tomorrow. I plan to use it as a starter activity whereby students can choose which picture to enlarge from the display and I will briefly explain what it’s about. They can then ask me a couple of questions about it, and then we’ll go onto the next one. Hopefully it will pique their interest… 
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Great post Doug – I’ll pass this link on to some of our
teachers. Thanks again, Ollie.
Good good, glad to be of help! I was thinking of making a video of me using it but a) that would mean my teaching was up to public scrutiny, and b) it could cause problems r.e. parental consent…
A great way of presenting images - thanks for the link. Looking forward to the day that this sort of presentation approach can include video too
I’ve just been putting together a starter activity for my lessons on the Holocaust this week and discovered that you can achieve a similar effect on your own machine - if you use a Mac…
All you need to do is to select the pictures you want, CTRL-click (or right-click) on one of the pictures, then choose slideshow. When the full-screen slideshow begins, simply move the cursor to display the control bar and choose ‘index sheet’. This displays thumbnails of all your images. Clicking on one of the images zooms it full-screen.
Hi, I stumbled onto your blog and I think it is awesome. Thanks for the slideshow index tip! I didn’t know that my Mac could do that; I was only familiar with the slideshow option in iPhoto. Now I’m slowly ploughing through all your recommendations for web 2.0 tools.. Thank you!
Thanks! I had a look at your blog and really appreciated the link to Skim. For the benefit of everyone else, it’s Mac-only software that lets you highlight and underline things in a PDF. I suppose it’s a bit like diigo for PDFs (but without the tagging, presumably…)