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Slideoo is a new tool that allows you to create a horizontal slideshow from your Flickr image sets. It is very easy to then imbed it in your blog or wiki, as I have done here. It allows up to 25 images in a set. You can see all of the photos by dragging the scroll bar on the bottom of the set.
You may want to try this with field trip photos or pictures of student projects.

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