Images: and how these could be incorporated into my learning experiences

MobaPhotos              Flickr                 Creative Commons

Three new image resources to learn and play with.

Upload photos with MobaPhones and resize them for uploading to other online addresses; e.g. email, blogs, wikis and even Flickr.  How good, and easy to use, is this website!   I will certainly use this one.  Photos of students work, working, or missed lessons, can be taken and sent with ease.  It would be great for field work and sharing everyone’s photos.  I like the idea that it is saved to my USB stick; portable, available and always with me.  In my maths class I could have the students bring, take, upload, screen capture, photos that relate to the subject we are currently studying.  Maybe jobs that are related.  Hmmm.  Area -> house plans, blocks of land, swimming pools; Volume -> local dam, can of coke, funnel; rates of change -> floodwaters spilling from a sewage pipe, water from a hose, a bucket emptying; advertisements – cars for sale -> interest rates; jobs -> income -> savings -> what could I buy after 1, 2, 3 years??.   

Made an account and uploaded my resized photos to Flickr – very easy.  This appears to be an open website (public setting) so one would have to be careful as to what photos were uploaded for students to access  Or closed (private) to family and friends, so students would not be able to access unless I made them my friends on FaceBook.  Students are not to be teachers friends on FaceBook, this is not allowed by Education Queensland, and I would certainly not feel comfortable doing this either.

Creative Commons.  Now this I really need.  It is very hard navigating all that is offered over the Inernet and to know what is freely available to be used.  Sometimes it is hard to determine who, or how, to give attribution to.  I will feel more confident in the future.  It may take a little more time, but I feel it will be time worth spent.  I did find the site a little confusing to navigate at the beginning, but I think I have got a fair idea now.  Like everything new it takes time, and mistakes, to get a good working knowledge of the procedures and processes.  The full scope and capabilities of many softwares programs are a continual learning process.

Check out this YouTube by Jonathan Coulton's Flickr.mov made with Creative Commons (CC) licensed pictures.