Sharing Your Discoveries
Share a photo or video of your foldscope specimen by posting it to the appropriate Padlet gallery (morning session or afternoon session) below: double-click anywhere on the 'corkboard' or click on the pink circle in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. You will be prompted to add some text and upload your photo/video.
In the Title field, provide as much information as you know about the identity of the organism and the part of the organism pictured. Common names are fine, scientific names are great if you know them. If you don't know what your photo shows, use 'unidentified'.
In the Write something... field, include information about your collection site and who you are. See examples below.
You can also "like" and comment on your peers' posts.
Padlet gallery for ABLE 2019 workshop morning session:
Padlet gallery for ABLE 2019 workshop afternoon session:
Padlet Sample Post (Text Only)
Title: red onion (Allium cepa)
OR (e.g., if you decide to post other specimens)
Title: black medic (Medicago lupulina) leaf
Title: grass root
Title: mushroom spore
Title: unidentified plant leaf
Title: unidentified alga(e)
Title: unidentified protist
Title: unidentified
etc,
Write something...
Collection Site: where you collected your specimen (non-onion photos only)
Date Collected: the date you collected the specimen (not the date you uploaded the photo)
Submitted by: your full name (optional for ABLE 2019 workshop)
Protect Your Privacy
Digital files include metadata with information like when and where a photo was taken, the type of camera used, etc. If you wish to do so, you have some ability to remove this information from your photos by adjusting the location/privacy/photo settings on your device before taking your photos, or after-the-fact by changing the photo file's properties. For more information, see Remove metadata from Office files, PDFs, and images*.
Respect Your Classmates' Privacy and Intellectual Property
The Padlet gallery is intended to be a private board for members of the class to share their work and to comment on that of their peers. Please do not download, copy, share, or embed individual photos or the Padlet board in whole or in part to any external location without the written permission of the instructor and the student or students whose work you wish to copy/share. The Padlet gallery will be archived at the end of term.
Share With the World (Optional)
If you would like to share your image with a larger audience, you might consider joining the Foldscope Microcosmos community, or creating an account with iNaturalist, which has a dedicated Foldscope community. The iNaturalist website / app can also help you with identification - when you upload a photo, it will make suggestions about the identity of your organism.
Creating accounts at these sites is entirely up to you; even if you choose not to, you can still see what others from around the world have discovered with their foldscopes!
Notes
*The 'Remove metadata... ' link is provided for information purposes only, and not as an endorsement of links and services mentioned in the article.