Flickr

toc Flickr is a photosharing community that contains over 100 million photographs.

Reasons for Use
Use it in the design of lessons that promote and build visual literacy skills in students. Anywhere visual images are required for presentations, visual prompts (sometimes called a Flicktion) or geotagging information associated with the image (use Flickr with Google Earth to teach geography). Students can do a single image critical thinking analysis. Multiple images can turn into a digital storytelling project. With the ability to easily upload a number of images, a quick slideshow from a field trip, school event, demonstration of learning can be displayed as a slideshow. Poems, short stories and other written work can be illustrated with Flickr photos. Upload student artwork and other school products. Students can also create a digital visual portfolio. Use the RSS, tags and comments on Flickr to enhance the learning on a particular image/topic. Learn about intellectual property rights using Flickr Creative Commons licensing. Take a third party application like [|Big Huge Labs] to produce products for the classroom such as motivational posters, magazine covers, movie posters, mosaic makers, etc.

Ease of Use
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Resources
[|Jake's Online resources for using Flickr] [|How one teacher set up a classroom Flickr account] [|Flickr used in high school for the past five years] [|Take the Tour]- important area right on Flickr to get the basics