I think that kids these days are often visual learners so you could use Flickr to find powerful images for your presentations/slide shows. This would make your lessons more appealing.
The post Tips and Tricks for Finding Science and Math Images on the Web gives good ideas.
You could design virtual field trips, for example, to show students interesting geological formations, less well known animals (e.g tuatara) and plants (e.g.liverwort) etc. You could show the weird creations of genetic engineering. The easiest way to find striking images is to use to most interesting feature on Flickr.
Some of the interesting capabilities of Flickr include:
- adding notes and comments to photos
- editing photos using picnik
- sending a link to photos rather than sending them as a large attachment
- geotagging pictures (great for virtual field trips)
- turning SafeSearch on to avoid finding photos with inappropriate content
The whole copyrighting and intellectual property issue is important but I have to admit that I had never really thought about it that much before. I am sure that I have broken the rules so many times whether when photocopying a book (over the 10%)or inserting pictures in my presentations. Students in our classrooms are not aware of copyright issues and I have rarely seen students attribute pictures to the owner. We try to stamp out plagiarism but I don't think that we teach our students about plagiarism when it comes to pictures that well.
I was not aware of Creative Commons licenses but I believe that it is a great idea to find works that can be used by others and to share pictures under conditions that you agree with.
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