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Everyone has heard of Flickr, but are you using it in your classroom? It you are searching for a photo of a place, Flickr is often better than a search engine. There are so many different ways this amazing resource can be used in a classroom. It's always the first site I look at when starting a geography/history/current affairs lesson, as there are very few places on this planet where a tourist hasn't been and snapped. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

How to find an image location in Flickr... It used to be easier!

How to find an image location in Flickr... It used to be easier!

Sylvia Duckworth's Sketchnote collection

Thanks Glenn, I'm trying to improve my sketchnoting. These are inspirational!

Here are lots of graphic images created by Toronto teacher to share - a large collection worth a look. Since these are creative commons licensed, you can use them in your teaching/lecture notes with attribution or links back to Sylvia's Flickr site.

Great set of tech images in Flickr

About Behold BeholdTM is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images -- at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision. It is different to standard image search engines, such as Flickr or Google, because those search through images using only image tags and filenames. Behold looks for high quality images, so you don't have to sift through hundreds of poorly taken pictures to find a good one. Behold uses both aesthetic and technical quality indicators to find some of the best images available online. Behold draws computational power from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to handle large volumes of images. Features Behold is capable of recognising a number of visual concepts in pictures. You can ask Behold to return images that look like one of these concepts. This new type of search can be flexibly combined with regular text-based search. For example you can ask Behold to return images tagged with the word 'london' that look like pictures of buildings (try it!). You can also filter text-based image search results based on what the images actually look like. Both of these features are demonstrated in these videos. With a newly introduced feature, Behold goes one step further and automatically suggests visual filters after analysing the words in your query. It shows you what your search results would look like if you apply one of these filters, so you save time on finding the right one.

Search High Quality Flickr Images.

List of search engines for flickr photos. Varying abilities to choose CC photos.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take

"Conversation is key . Sawyer succinctly explains this principle: "Conversation leads to flow, and flow leads to creativity." When having students work in groups, consider what will spark rich conversation. The original researcher on flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, found that rich conversation precedes and ignites flow more than any other activity.1 Tasks that require (or force) interaction lead to richer collaborative conceptualization. Set a clear but open-ended goal . Groups produce the richest ideas when they have a goal that will focus their interaction but also has fluid enough boundaries to allow for creativity. This is a challenge we often overlook. As teachers, we often have an idea of what a group's final product should look like (or sound like, or…). If we put students into groups to produce a predetermined outcome, we prevent creative thinking from finding an entry point. Try not announcing time limits. As teachers we often use a time limit as a "motivator" that we hope will keep group work focused. In reality, this may be a major detractor from quality group work. Deadlines, according to Sawyer, tend to impede flow and produce lower quality results. Groups produce their best work in low-pressure situations. Without a need to "keep one eye on the clock," the group's focus can be fully given to the task. Do not appoint a group "leader." In research studies, supervisors, or group leaders, tend to subvert flow unless they participate as an equal, listening and allowing the group's thoughts and decisions to guide the interaction. Keep it small. Groups with the minimum number of members that are needed to accomplish a task are more efficient and effective. Consider weaving together individual and group work. For additive tasks-tasks in whicha group is expectedtoproduce a list, adding one idea to another-research suggests that better results develop

Venspired posters

Search for creative commons images on flickr. Check "editable."

Various interfaces for searching and browsing Flickr content. No way to delimit for Creative Commons licensing.

Find images for comps, inspiration or research.

interesting photo search tool.

Another great Flickr search toy for Creative Commons licensed images.

Make an online book with text and photos from flickr with animated page turns. Search for photos by username or tag. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

This page mentions a promotion BMW is having where you submit your photos but then BMW is free to use the photos however they wish. It may be a good starting point to discuss the subject of copyright with your students.

Spell with flickr. Great way to practice spelling words creatively.

How fun would it be to use this tool for a start or end to storytelling.

images for use in education- make sure to refer to the key on the right hand side of the page to make sure you are using the images properly-

A great site that lets you make a sliding photo banner from any Flickr photostream or sets. Embed the banner into your site. No sign in required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images