Thing 10: Flickr

I chose Haiti Earthquake for my search.  I will soon be discussing earthquakes.  I have been trying to search for before pictures but I have not been able to find them yet.

 

Haiti Earthquake: Le Palais National

Image by AIDG

There were many great pictures that I found about the earthquake in Haiti.  They were very professional and I appreciate that most of them were available for download.  It was hard in trying to copy the name of the photographer to give the credit.  You had to write it down, then type it in and add the link.  I also had some struggles getting the picture into the blog.  I hope that would happen on other programs.  I worry that no matter how many times they hear or read about giving credit the students are just going to copy paste and forget to cite the source.  I wish that there was an easier way to be able to copy the URL.  I did realize that the intial pictures were about the topic I searched.  After going through the first few pages of search the pictures were no longer about the topic.  They may have been tagged with one of the keywords.  Did do a search on some of the words that my students might be inclined to accidently type to see what kinds of photos would show up.  Although as a whole they weren’t that bad they still would not be acceptable.  Would need to find some way of monitoring them or getting permission from the parents to be allowed to use it in school.   I wish there was a student version that can managed more closely to being kid appropriate.