Flickr is a web tool that I have often heard about at school and seen people use, but I have never explored its uses before. Now I understand why it is so popular. It seems to be such a great tool to upload and organise images. It allows students to access photos from any where or any place legally.
I'm always taking photos of the students on excursions and other special days but rarely give anyone access to these photos. With Flickr I would be able to allow the students to use these photos in their work. For example when publishing a recount. I would need to become more familiar with the privacy settings before I did this.
Images are so easily accessed by students on the Internet and it is important for them to understand copyright. Just as we teach them not to copy and paste text from the web when completing research tasks, we need to reinforce this for images as well. Flickr is great because you can choose to add a creative commons licence to the photos you upload which would help students understand how they can use images legally.
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