Young people communicate and collaborate every few minutes –
it’s an obsession. They text, MSN, BBM, Myspace, Facebook, Facebook message, Facebook
chat and Skype. Note the absence of email and Twitter. Then there’s Spotify,
Soundcloud, Flickr, YouTube and Bitorrent to share, tag, upload and download
experiences, comments, photographs, video and media. They also collaborate closely
in parties when playing games. Never have the young shared so much, so often in
so many different ways. Then along comes someone who wants to teach them this
so called 21st C skill, usually in a classroom, where all of this is
banned.
Peter Shanks on 21 Aug 12There's no doubting that old adage: "a picture's worth a thousand words", and nothing sadder than a web page full of text with no supporting images. So you owe it to yourself and your readers to add a few eye catching graphics to every page you write. If you want to download pictures to use you'll want to find royalty free stock images or pictures released under a creative commons license. In this slideshow I walk you through the process of finding photographs that use the flickr creative commons license using a search engine called flickrCC
