Photo-sharing
After checking out Flickr, I find it to be a useful site. What I like most is that students don't have to worry about copyright infringement when it comes to using pictures. After searching for a picture, just click on the "Any License" down-drop and you can search pictures that have "no known copyright restrictions". This is very beneficial because then students don't necessarily have to cite every picture on their works cited page, they can just cite flickr. This touches on ISTE Standards: 2A,B, & 3B. I think I could use photo-sharing in my classroom by having the students create a picture collage about themselves and can be used as an ice-breaker during the first week of a new semester.
I did find one drawback, when I tried to do the drag-and-drop feature to post a picture to my blog, it just posted a link as seen below:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetaylors/6248281175/
On my second try, I tried to add a picture with a URL on Blogger and that didn't work either. Evidently, I had to do it the old-school way and download the picture and save it to my computer and upload it from there. With Google Images being so accessible, I find it more cumbersome to login to Flickr and find a picture to add to my blog, I would normally just search Google Images and save the picture from there.
I did find one drawback, when I tried to do the drag-and-drop feature to post a picture to my blog, it just posted a link as seen below:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetaylors/6248281175/
On my second try, I tried to add a picture with a URL on Blogger and that didn't work either. Evidently, I had to do it the old-school way and download the picture and save it to my computer and upload it from there. With Google Images being so accessible, I find it more cumbersome to login to Flickr and find a picture to add to my blog, I would normally just search Google Images and save the picture from there.
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