Thing 5

I enjoyed exploring the Flickr site. I found it a little difficult to find useful things in The Commons, but was interested to look through the pictures. As a first grade teacher, I teach a lot about reading. Thus, I searched reading and found this picture from the 1910s. It is a library assistant telling a story to a group of Russian children in their native language. It could be interesting to show my kids pictures like this, but I guess I am still a little unclear on how Flicker Commons would be best used.

While copyright issues apply, I found it much more useful to search Everyone's Uploads.

But actually, I just figured out that there is a The Commons and a Creative Commons. Useful learning in itself. Thus, I just went back and searched Creative Commons and found this much more useful. We studied Australia this past spring and I found it helpful to show the children pictures of animals that lived there. I could see using Flickr to help toward this end next year.