Module 4

I had forgotten that I had uploaded some pictures to Flickr a couple of years ago when I was living in Japan. It was really lovely to discover them again and lucky too (I have just changed some of the privacy settings on some unattractive photos that I don't really want to share with the world). I'm not sure exactly why I stopped using Flickr. I think it probably happened the same time I started using Facebook and I didn't feel like I had a use for it anymore. 

As a teaching tool I would usually prefer to use a blog, a wiki or another social networking tool to upload pictures. I guess when the students are looking for images for their projects it could be a better option to use a safe search within Flickr to prevent stumbling across inappropriate material. It is also great that the photo's are copyright free, they can blog any photo they see on flickr,  so the students can upload with the knowledge that they are doing it legally. I have also just uploaded photos from Flickr to my blog and I have realized how easy it is. It could be great to create an album of photos from a school excursion and then get the students to create blogs which comment on the photos.