Tag Galaxy is a visual arts teacher’s dream-come-true for gaining access to thousands of photographs. Users go into the site and enter a word into a box. Photos have been gathered from around the world, and they are tagged with words that describe the photo. The word and related words pop up in a galaxy of planets. The biggest planet represents the original word that the user inserted, and smaller planets represent related words. More specific words that surround the animal galaxy include, zoo, pet, cat and nature for example. The user can then press on any planet and pictures float onto the screen for choosing.
Photos can be downloaded and the photographer is identified, as well as whether or not the photo is protected by copyright. Flickr is the host site that house the library of photos. A word such as animal has almost 2 million examples of animal pictures, while the smaller planet choices such as “pet” had just over 50,000 photographs.
The number of photographs available is constantly increasing as photographers can add their images on Flickr. Though Flickr is the source for the library of photos, a user can access the photos using TagGalaxy without having a Flickr account. A teacher might need a photo for a visual presentation of a topic, and TagGalaxy provides easy access to those needs.
Teachers that use a SmartBoard in their class will find using this visual library of photos to be a splendid source for projecting impactful images to their students.
Cat on the computer photo found on TagGalaxy. The photographer calls herself, "Tryingtolearn USA’s Photostream". Retreived from http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolmyra/362699219/
Smart Board and TagGalaxy retrieved from
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/2009/05/smartboards-and-tag-galaxy.html
TagGalaxy site
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