Thing #9 Using Flickr

As part of this assignment, I decided to search for pictures of renewable natural resources. I liked this cool cow picture that law_keven posted on Flickr and decided to download it. I'll use it as part of a slideshow on natural resources.

In exploring how other educators are using Flickr, I really liked how Teacher Dude used it to teach vocabulary. Students had to find pictures to illustrate words. Since having students illustrate key terms is a basic strategy for vocabulary instruction, this just adds another way of going about doing that.

Overall, Flickr isn't quite as user friendly for me as Wikimedia Commons. It seems like you have to go through more steps to find what you need. That may just be lack of familiarity on my part. It does provide me with another source of photos though. I didn't realize before that some pictures in Flickr had Creative commons licensing.