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CreativeCommons Image Searching

Since becoming more aware about Presentation Zen, the need to search for suitable images has increased. Using images licensed under Creative Commons goes without saying, and as a classroom teacher, I believe it’s very important for me to model image attribution and Creative Commons usage to my students.

Usually I just use the advanced search on [...]

Photograph with a Creative Commons License

I love my NikonD40. It was extremely valuable piece of equipment to record my travels on the way home from Argentina recently. I’m am convinced that when you know you have a good camera in your hands, you tend to take better pictures. Well, subconsciously I think you do anyway.

I was kinda [...]

Extensive Flickr List

Before dropping off to sleep last night, I read NetGuide’s February 08 issue. The How To Section contained an article on How To Use Flickr. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then you’ll understand why this bought a smile to my face.
But, amongst all the good bits about how to use [...]

Twitter Flickr Learning

Have I mentioned that I love my twitter network? A few days ago a joint post from Chris Betcher & Sue Waters was written about picassa vrs flickr born out of tweets on twitter. I’d already mentioned in a previous post about using flickr more in the classroom this year, so flickr [...]

5 Things To Try In The 2008 Classroom

After listing Favourite 5 in the Classroom of 2007, and reading several posts about others’ favourite apps, videos, tools, resources of 2007, I thought it would be a great idea to list 5 6 things (in no particular order) to try in the 2008 classroom from others’ favourites lists. There’s some on the list [...]