Thing 7

I can think of a number of ways to use Flickr in my classroom:

One great way would be for the "Plot Study" project that students complete in the fall. As a part of this project, students are asked to take photos for "collections" of leaves, flowers, weeds, fungus, etc... They are also asked to document seasonal changes, and get pictures of themselves enjoynig the great outdoors on their plot. Flickr would be an excellent way for students to chare these photos not only with me but with their fellow classmates as well.

Another good use of Flickr in my classroom would be for student experiments and projects. Flickr could be the place that the upload photos to in order to share photos to complete the project and to also share them with me.

I can also imagine students using Flickr to find images when they are doing resesarch on various topics (animals, ecology, bacteria, ect...).

I think that one of the biggest issues that I will face will be copyright and plagerism issues. Since it is so easy to just "cut and paste," students often forget that copyright issues even exist. I can also forsee running into problems with inappropriate images since I'm not sure how our internet filter would or would not block images.