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Engaging students with Flickr and the Creative Commons

2/15/2013

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When I began pondering the reflection questions for this week’s blog, my initial thought was that I had never noticed the CC logo on any websites that I visit.  As a result, I had never wondered what it meant.  Later on, as I was perusing my Google Reader feed, I began noticing the CC logo in association with many of the photo credits on the blogs that I follow.  It had never occurred to me that bloggers did not all take their own photos, as one of the very first blogs that I began to follow is by a friend in Senegal who is a photojournalist.  Yet once I began thinking about it, I realized that not all bloggers could be as talented as she is, and so must get their images somewhere.

As it turns out, I have heard of Creative Commons before, as well as Flickr.  I had not ever realized that they went together or that one could use them so creatively in the classroom to engage student learning.  In Chapter 7 of his book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, Will Richardson discusses a variety of projects and ways to have “Fun with Flickr.”  As a teacher of literature in both French and English, I love the idea of illustrating important words from poems using images from Flickr, as David Jakes did.  As a language teacher, I also like the idea of testing vocabulary with asking students to annotate and label what they see with what they know.  This could allow students some measure of autonomy and choice in their assessment as well.  With the use of a common sharing space, students could even assess other students if the annotated pictures were saved to that location.

Furthermore, I was also pleased to read that “the copyright issues of using an image already found on the Web fall under the Fair Use Doctrine” provided that the source be referenced (Richardson, 2010).  I have always tried to limit myself to Microsoft Clipart Galleries, since I knew that as a Microsoft customer, I had access to those images.  Knowing that attribution is all that is needed for my classroom use of other images online makes my planning easier, as I search for images to associate with vocabulary or to spark discussion in my classes.

Teachers in other subjects will be happy to know that searching for content using Creative Commons defaults to Safe Search features, allowing teachers the freedom to ask students to perform searches that allow for creativity while blocking images that are not safe for their viewing.

Lastly, this also makes me more comfortable about sharing what I create online. I have always been a great “harvester” of resources.  While I always try to insert a footer giving credit to where I found the material, I do not always succeed. Yet because I also modify the original document to make it fit my classroom and my teaching style, I feel as though the original author and I are joint creators.  Additionally, if someone else accesses material that I share online and improves it, then we are co-creators working together for the benefit of other teachers and multitudes of students around the globe.

As before, I leave you with a few questions:
  • What are your favorite sharing sites? 
  • What are some the ways that this week’s reading has inspired you to incorporate Flickr and Creative Commons into your class?


RESOURCES
Richardson, W. (2010). Fun With Flickr: Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (3rd ed., pp. 101-110). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.


1 Comment
Rhonda Gambnlin
2/17/2013 08:27:32 am

Angela, I also love the idea of using labeling in Flickr as a vocabulary activity. I can definitely see myself doing this with my 2nd graders. I think that this was my favorite chapter in the book so far and they have all been great. The information about Flickr was just very inspiring; it made me want to get started right away! I want to try the labeling the picture with my students by having them take a picture of their model of the Earth, sun and moon that they will make as a culminating project for science this quarter and then have them label it using important vocabulary from the unit. How exciting!
Up until now I have almost always used Google Images when searching for images to support my lessons; but, I’ve always been very careful about copyright and not been able to publish anything. Now, I will switch to Flickr and have more freedom.

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    Angela Burgess is a high school French and Lit teacher, as well as an Instructional Technology Specialist.  She is also  understandably a Francophile and technophile. She obtained her M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University in May 2014.

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