Tuesday, November 13, 2012

7.0 Flickr

The primary issue I had with Richardson's Flickr chapter had not to do with his content but with local decision-making as to student access. For example, when he suggests (105) that we work with students to create a discussion through the comments on particular images, I agree that that idea has a lot of potential. However, until we collectively find an appropriate way to filter Flickr content to make the site permissible for student use at school, we'll have to use other tools to do that (e.g., Edmodo or a wiki, with images embedded).

Flickr provides a rich set of Creative-Commons licensed resources (109). See http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/.  The attribution license, in particular, allows remixing and mashing of shared content (creating derivative works). CreativeCommons.org provides descriptions for the various licenses and when to use them, as well as tools for creating licenses to embed in one's sites (see my fun blog for an example). I also appreciated Richardson's sharing of Alan Levine's Delicious tags under Flickr ( http://delicious.com/cogdog/flickr ).

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