Think of ways you may be able to use Flickr in the classroom or in your work and share your ideas. What issues might you face?
I currently use our district website for sharing photos of class happenings but, an issue that I worry about, is student safety and privacy. Yes, the parents give permission to use student photos through our media release but if there are safer ways to share photos then we should be careful not to dismiss other options. Using Flickr sharing of photos with parents could be done more privately. We must still be careful when creating groups to not make mistakes with who's allowed to join, print, and/or order photos. Flickr is a great resource for students to use and manipulate photos into new creations. These creations could easily become the stimuli for writing assignments or other projects. Students could also find specific photos with Flickr for projects they are completing in a variety of other programs such as Photo Story or Movie Maker. However, the collaborative nature of Flickr would mean making sure students are not interacting with strangers without permission and supervision.
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Good idea - using Flickr images in Photo Stories or other student-created media. Library of Congress has posted literally thousands of digitized images from their collections in Flickr:
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Thanks! I would worry about setting them loose in Flicr but know that trying to manage everything they need/want from my end with total control is overly time-consuming and basically impossible. I'll check out the Library of Congress collections.
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