Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Day Two Afternoon
I didn't get as much time to play today as I would have liked. The bad part about being physically in the office is that people still expect you to be working!! I did enjoy learning about Flickr and I set up my account. I really enjoyed the part about FlickrStorm and the ability to pull photos into a "walled garden". I'm going to play tonight with the different image generators and the Web 2.0 Award Winners. The ability to find royalty-free images will be great for Desktop Publishing classes. They are constantly on the search for images to use in class, and Flickr will be a great resource that I can't wait to share with them. I do not think they were aware that we, as teachers, could access Flickr. I can't wait to read everyone else's responses to how they are going to use these tools in the classroom.
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As we share Flickr, we need to stress that these photos are copyrighted materials and we need to be sure they are being used correctly. We also need to train teachers to look at photos before showing them to students since the site is subject to change. I think FlickrStorm would be a safer option than Flickr.
ReplyDeleteKatie, well I posted some pixs on flicker but I made it private cos I'm afraid of others tempering with them. I could not post pixs of my students speaking French in class, you know I need to have the consent of the students and or the parents. All the same, i hope to ues flickr pixs to teach them cos it's cool!!
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