If you haven't gone onto the Flickrtoys site yet to play, I would highly recommend doing so. How easy it is to produce a trading card! It is so simple to do that it is actually fun!
The first thing I did was to enter www.flickrtoys.com but this site came up as "domain disabled". Using a search for flickrtoys, I ended up at http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrtoys/. The page is entitled fd's Flickrtoys which made me wonder who or what fd was? I searched around but did not actually come up with an answer to that question.
The flickrtoys page includes a discussion board, a photo pool, a map of the world with "photo deposits" geographically indicated, and an "about fd's flickrtoys" section. The "about fd's flickrtoys" includes: the purpose, the Big Huge Blog, the toy box, and contact information.
The toy box has nineteen different things to play with. There are tools for badge making, billboards, calendars, a Hockneyizer collage maker, mosaics, a Warholizer, and last but not least, the trading card maker. Click on the trading card maker, follow the simple instructions, and voila, you can easily produce a trading card!
Although I don't have many photos on flickr, I knew our library director had taken a photo of me at Halloween which had been uploaded. Through the magic of the season, our vehicle had been converted into a frighteningly fantastic BOO!mobile! and I had also been transformed into a fortune telling wizard. With this inspiring raw material from flickr at hand and carefully following the step by step directions on the trading card page, the above pictured Wizard of the BOO!mobile was created!
Flickrtoys trading card tool is so easy to use, it really is fun. In terms of marketing for the bookmobile, I can just imagine how much our young patrons would love to have us create trading cards for them. This could be used as either a reading incentive or simply as a draw to get patrons on board.
4 comments:
Hey Jody! I played around with flickr toys this weekend, too! Also very cool is www.says-it.com. There's the cassette tape generator that Michael showed us this weekend, and a concert ticket generator. I also like the "Chuck Says..." cartoon. You can even change his background and his poses. Very funny.
Have a great weekend!
Dana
I love your trading card and I'm glad that you played around with this because I wanted to make one too but was too busy making a myspace page! Ha Ha. We are going to bring hotness and style to librarians everywhere. Think about it... you could even have a workshop at the library on how to user flickr to design your own trading cards for teens. I think the Halloween costume was great because you could even tie it in to that holiday with some kind of tagline line, "Ever wish you were someone else? With flickr you can be because every day is Halloween!" You could have them wear their costumes to the library, have a staff member take a photo of them in their costumes and then teach them how to use flickr to create it. Situated nicely beside the computer area you can have a table with books like "Digital cameras for teens," to hock real live books! These new tools we're learning about are excellent ways to market library services. Keep up the good work!
:) Monica
Jody, this sounds great. I can't wait to try Flickrtoys. You make it sound so easy and fun. I think my students would really enjoy it. I am charging my camera NOW!
Thanks for all the information.
EXCELLENT card and commentary about Flickr Toys! Great post and comments!
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