Thing 6

Exploring Flickr was a lot of fun for me. When I have the time, I will certainly spend endless hours on there. I love how it is connected to Picnik so you don't have to upload photos separately to Picnik to edit them. I just learned about Picnik this year...from my students! I can definitely see many uses for Flickr in my classroom. As long my students are granted access to the website through our IT department, I see us using it all the time to upload and share our photos during our 6th grade digital photography segment. I love that we could tag them with our cycle identifier and then the students could all see their classmates' work easily. The only thing I wonder is if I will need to have parents sign releases if students are taking photos and upload pictures of themselves to this public sharesite.

I am a huge fan of photosharing sites. I currently use Shutterfly all the time and really enjoy creating photobooks, cards, and sharesites for my family photos and videos. I would love to teach my students about all these possibilities for good creative uses of technology.