Pick a Picture by Yourself

A standard Pick a Picture session involves being with others as you select images and share them with each other. Spending time with the images by yourself is another way to interact with an image collection. You can spend time doing this as a way to connect with yourself and to spend time reflecting and processing. Another reason for doing this is that you may want to choose images to share with others. It may help with being better able to convey things to others. Or, it may be a way to connect with someone more meaningfully.

Sharing these images:

• All images in the Pick a Picture by Yourself collection are ones that can be freely reused and shared. Many of the images are offered under Creative Commons licenses. These licenses require that you provide attribution to the creator when the image is used and shared.

• For images that need attribution, you will find the attribution for them near the upper left hand corner of the image. Copy and paste this attribution when sharing this image.
• For Wikimedia Commons images, perhaps the easiest way to share an image is to share the link to the Wikimedia Commons page for the image. You will find this link above the attribution near the upper left hand corner of the image.
• To download an image, right click on the image and select "Download".

Enjoy! Go to meaningfulaction.org/pictures to interact with the Pick a Picture by Yourself collection.

Using Miro

• It's recommended that you use Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher or Firefox. There is also a Miro desktop app that you can download and install, but the problem with pictures disappearing and reappearing that's mentioned in the FAQ isn't any better with the desktop app.

• Watch the Miro Navigation Basics 3-minute Video.

• • Clicking "No, thanks" is my suggestion for when a window pops up that says "Welcome to Miro! You will be using this board as a Visiting Researcher. Complete a quick tutorial to learn how to use basic tools." For our purposes, nothing in the tutorial is relevant, as we'll only need to know how to do what's listed here below.

• Select a picture - The arrow icon at the top of the toolbar (on the left hand side of the screen) toggles between select mode and pan mode. In pan mode, your cursor will look like a hand and you will be able to pan around the board to navigate around it. In select mode, your cursor will look like an arrow. In this mode, you point at things with the arrow and click on them to select them.

• Copy and paste a picture to a new location - Select a picture. Then, use Ctrl+C/Ctrl + V for Windows or Cmd + C/Cmd + V for Mac.

• Drag a picture to a different location - Select and hold while you move your cursor to drag a picture. See if you can drag a picture to a different location. Then, drag it back to its original location.

• Hide or show collaborators' cursors - These cursors allow you to see what regions of the board other people are looking at. Clicking the icon shown in the picture below allows you to toggle between hiding and showing your collaborators' cursors. (Toggling between hiding and showing can also be done using the Settings dropdown menu. The Settings menu is accessed by clicking on the icon to the right of the blue Share button in the picture below. The Settings icon is made up of circles and lines.)

• Note that pictures may disappear (and perhaps see if this happens to you and see if you can get them to reappear) - One very unfortunate thing that is currently true about Miro is that not all of the pictures will always be showing. As you zoom in and out and navigate around the board, some of the pictures will disappear. Zooming in and out can help them to reappear.
  • This is a known bug for the Miro team. They are working on fixing it. In the meantime, here are their suggestions:
    • Close all unused tabs with Miro boards in your browser;
    • Open your browser settings and disable hardware acceleration (for convenience, please see third-party instruction: how to enable or disable hardware acceleration in a browser for a walkthrough on how to do this);
    • Refresh the active tab with the Miro board in your browser;
    • Make sure you are using Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher.
    • Some users also reported that the issue appeared less in the Firefox browser, so you may try that as well.