Flickr

Apart of this weeks engagement activity was to reflect on the photo sharing website: Flickr.

Photo acquired from Flickr user Randi Hausken

I have a huge love for the Siberian Husky, as I own one and because we were required to upload an image to our blog, I chose this - because it's just too beautiful to not share!

I searched for image under the creative commons license attribution tag, by narrowing down my search options.  I found that I did have a lot of trouble trying to add this image via the link, but I was able to easily add it by typing this blog post in HTML form.  I copied the HTML code and used the 'break code' (<br >) to make paragraphs.

I've always liked using Flickr and use to have an account.  I believe it would be a great website to use in the classroom as a means to share with parents and families what the students are achieving and doing in class.  It could also be used by schools for the same purpose on a bigger scale.  Flickr is quite easy to use, even for users who aren't very technologically advanced.

I think that beyond using the website as a means to share photos with families, there are probably a lot of more creative ways for students to present and share information.  Under the creative commons license, students would have the ability to access pictures that they could potentially use for classroom purposes but I don't think it's the best form to present information.