Sunday, February 28, 2010
Flickr in the Classroom-thing 12
I do use Flickr to find photos that explain the math topic that my students are learning about and sometimes I just find photos that keep my students interested in coming to school everyday to see what the photo is that day. I have been talking about copyrights with the students lately and we have searched for photos that are under the creative commons license. I am always inpressed when the students remember and ask me if a picture is okay to use. Recently the class viewed several photos and needed to decide if they where rep-tiles or tessellations. The students where very involved and argued for what they thought was correct. I have invited the students to submit photos and some students have, but I have not made it an assignment.
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It's so great that you have made your students aware of intellectual property rights. I go crazy when I see student work without any attempt at attribution. It's OK to say it's "fair use" but it's NOT OK to not cite your sources. I don't get hung up on APA or MLA format, but I'd at least like to see a URL of where they got the photo. OK, stepping off of my soapbox now.
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