We’ve been recently looking at ways of displaying photographs and images in the Learning Platform, we’ve not been overly convinced with the new BETA web parts to display photos.
I stumbled across a post about how to configure a Cooliris picture wall using a Learning Platform picture library as the source, getting around the e-safety issues around hosting school photographs on external websites like Flickr or Picasa.
By tweaking the Picture Library RSS feed and uploading the Cooliris flash file, we’ve successfully created a picture wall using images within the Learning Platform. The good thing about this is that the picture wall can be placed on a different Interest Space to display the photos.
In the Looking for Learning Interest Space, we have teacher community pages where teachers can upload their photographs. The picture wall has been placed on the Student community pages allowing them to see the uploaded images.
We’ve also used these on our Wedgnock Gallery Interest Space, where we showcase schools artwork that is on show at our Professional Development Centre.
Walls were built using the online tool found here http://www.cooliris.com/yoursite/express/builder/
Cooliris discussion on the KLP site (log on required) is here
This looks great! Thanks for the article.
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