Thing 4:Photo Sharing, Editing, and Fun

Here is the picture I took from Flickr by doing the Advanced search for Creative commons images. I wish it would look like this in a few weeks! I read the materials for this module and looked at the video Photosharing: The Basics, and the Your tube Flickr tutorial. Both were clear and concise. I am choosing not sign up for a photo sharing account at this time, but I will use Flickr in the future and these videos will walk me through it. I loved the Book Spine Poetry and had a great idea for our 12th grade poetry class. I read through Take Pictures, Tell Stories Part 4: Fun with Photos at Library Events. I was impressed by theREAD posters event at Harper College Library, and I absolutely loved the League of Librarian Trading Cards. The Art show at the Unquiet Library gave me ideas of how to display pictures of our own Art show being held in my library in May 2013. Thank you for the Fair Use Guidelines for Multimedia Presentations (http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280d.shtml).I am always concerned about where students are getting their photos for their presentations due to the copyright issues. Teachers and students seem to be have the misconception that as ling as they cite where they get their photos from, they can legally use the photo in their presentation. They don't understand that if they are publishing the presentation to the web, it opens up a whole other can of worms. I have been showing classes how to search for copyright free images on the Creative Commons site, as well as how to search Google Images for them as well. Most of the Photo sharing sites mentioned is module are blocked at my high school. Picasa seems to be the only one available to our students, probably because all of students have Google accounts withing our own Google domain.