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"It's open to anybody, and, because of that, you've got to assume people will put stuff there that will be offensive.
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asically, to give families a feeling for what kinds of projects kids are working on." Lauer says that seeing photos of their work gives kids a sense of accomplishment -- of having been, in a sense, published.
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Emily EscueAbout keeping Flickr out of the classroom as well as keeping their classrooms private from the Flickr world
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It's open to anybody, and, because of that, you've got to assume people will put stuff there that will be offensive
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Rather than let students search for photos, he finds them on his own time and brings them into class as writing prompts or for blog entries
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The Flickr page of Tim Lauer, principal of Meriwether Lewis Elementary School, in Portland, Oregon, is a proud gallery of class projects, school sports teams, and drama productions. But look closely and you'll notice you can rarely pick out a single student's face.
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We're not taking advantage of any of the social aspects of Flickr," he says. Photos on his and his school's site take advantage of Flickr's no-comment tool, so Lauer can always control which words show up on the page.
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He can also label photos as "private" and use Flickr's Guest Pass tool to share those photos with invited guests only. "If I've got some private images -- of a kid's science project or something like that -- and I want to share them with the family, I can keep them private and send the family a link to look at those," he says.
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To be fair, much of what's not kid friendly about Flickr can be eliminated by skipping (or greatly limiting) use of the Search button. One way to do that is with Flickr's Group tool. Flickr's groups are small pools of users who pull photos from across the site and organize them into categories accessible by group members. An association of third-grade teachers, for example, might form a group for photos relating to appropriate curricula.
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Groups can be open to everyone or by invitation only; by choosing the latter option, it's possible for group members to control which photos are posted, and, therefore, it becomes more or less safe to give students free reign within that group. Because everything is social on Flickr, groups also function as discussion rooms. And, because everything is enormous on Flickr, there are already thousands of groups to browse -- including 345 on kites alone.
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Flickr's privacy risks haven't deterred teachers from finding scores of ways to use the site. This is thanks, in
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part, to Flickr itself, which continues to develop new school-friendly tools, such as GeoTagging.
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Still, talk to teachers about Flickr, and you get the sense they'd trade in many of the site's bells and whistles for a simple, child-safe filter. "One of my biggest wishes is that Flickr would develop a safe search," says teacher Jamie Tubbs. "People use such random tags that if you want to have a kid go find something in nature, or search "birthday," it's just too easy to have them come across something bad -- and then I'm going to get in trouble."
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emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users
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social network, a place where people can connect with each other and have conversations.
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Much of what makes Flickr a social-networking site is
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the ability it gives its users to comment on each others' photos
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. But
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much of what's not kid friendly about Flickr can be eliminated by skipping (or greatly limiting) use of the Search button. One way to do that is with Flickr's Group tool. Flickr's groups are small pools of users who pull photos from across the site and organize them into categories accessible by group members
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Because everything is social on Flickr, groups also function as discussion rooms.
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"It's open to anybody, and, because of that, you've got to assume people will put stuff there that will be offensive." Tubbs, like many teachers, uses Flickr avidly, but he shies away from bringing it into the classroom. Rather than let students search for photos, he finds them on his own time and brings them into class as writing prompts or for blog entries
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But Lauer steers clear of this, too. "We're not taking advantage of any of the social aspects of Flickr," he says. Photos on his and his school's site take advantage of Flickr's no-comment tool
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se of the Search button. One way to do that is with Flickr's Group tool. Flickr's groups are small pools of users who pull photos from across the site and organize them into categories accessible by group members. An association of third-grade teachers, for example, might form a group for photos relating to appropriate curricula
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Given that Flickr is very much a global community, there's an opportunity to search and engage with content that's created all over the world,
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She reports, however, that the company (now owned by Yahoo) is working on a filtering mechanism, but, like other 2.0 sites, that filter will depend on Flickr members to identify objectionable photos when they see them
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Karen MontgomeryMy Friend Flickr: A Great Photo Opportunity
flickr collaboration teaching web2.0 photography social_networking tools
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adelaide ladHow to safely set students loose in the educationally thrilling but fundamentally ungovernable photo-sharing network.
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craig rolandHow to safely set students loose in the educationally thrilling but fundamentally ungovernable photo-sharing network
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