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Today I was introduced to a program called Flickr. It is a program where you can get pictures and videos to use in your classroom. I like it because they are protected by the copyright law, so as a teacher I can integrate media from everyday life, and legally present it to my students. Power points are so boring for students to look at when there is just text or even clip art. Clip art is limited, when it comes to current pictures. Flickr has just about any picture you can think of! I will definitely use this website to spice up my lesson plans. I can use it to show a video on "how to do things" or a video to watch and then discuss as a class. Flickr is nice because I am able to borrow pictures from other people and I can even up load my own pictures and put copyright protection on them. I feel that my students will be more attentive when I present new material to them if I can use current, up to data media to go along with it! I wish my teachers knew about this website, class would have definitely been more interesting.
I feel as if the copyright laws scare teachers off from implementing pictures and videos into their lesson plans. So many things are on the fence and a lot of these materials are hard to find the rights for so you can not credit the owner properly. This is why teachers opt out of using media in their lesson plans. They are busy as it is, they do not need to worry about hunting someone down to ask if it is okay to use their picture. But Flickr makes this so easy and so convenient! This will surely be a website I will treasure. Try it out and see what you think about it!
Today I was introduced to a program called Flickr. It is a program where you can get pictures and videos to use in your classroom. I like it because they are protected by the copyright law, so as a teacher I can integrate media from everyday life, and legally present it to my students. Power points are so boring for students to look at when there is just text or even clip art. Clip art is limited, when it comes to current pictures. Flickr has just about any picture you can think of! I will definitely use this website to spice up my lesson plans. I can use it to show a video on "how to do things" or a video to watch and then discuss as a class. Flickr is nice because I am able to borrow pictures from other people and I can even up load my own pictures and put copyright protection on them. I feel that my students will be more attentive when I present new material to them if I can use current, up to data media to go along with it! I wish my teachers knew about this website, class would have definitely been more interesting.
I feel as if the copyright laws scare teachers off from implementing pictures and videos into their lesson plans. So many things are on the fence and a lot of these materials are hard to find the rights for so you can not credit the owner properly. This is why teachers opt out of using media in their lesson plans. They are busy as it is, they do not need to worry about hunting someone down to ask if it is okay to use their picture. But Flickr makes this so easy and so convenient! This will surely be a website I will treasure. Try it out and see what you think about it!
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