This module I discovered Flickr and all the amazing things you can do and create there. I uploaded about 6 of my holiday snaps of various places in Australia and overseas and then played around with a few by adding stickers and shapes etc which was fun! Here is one for you to see, taken on Mollymook beach and then made a bit more exciting!
I can see many uses for Flickr in the classroom. I did an advanced search for Creative Commons content and there is so much available for tags like France, Paris, monuments in Paris etc, which would be fantastic to use in the classroom. It would really open the students eyes to what these places actually look like. Some of the photos are fantastic. It is also great to have my own Flickr page now where I can upload my own photos and share them. It is a great resource and I really think I have only just scraped the surface of its potential.
The Copyright issues I find a bit overwhelming at the moment and it is something I will have to do a lot more research on when I get more into using these tools. The smartcopying site looks great and the sections I looked at on wikis and blogs for students and teachers were easy to understand. The Creative Commons site also explained things easily in the videos I watched and this is a great thing to know about for teachers.
Flickr is definately a tool I can see myself using a lot both personally and as a teacher and I like how user friendly it is.
Until next module.....
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