Flicker is a photo management and photo-sharing site.  You are able to upload and organize your own photos and allow friends, family, or the public to view or even share your photos. There are several license agreements that would allow for you to use someone else’s photos as well.

 Flicker would be a great site to use when my students are creating their power point presentations.  I have my students create a presentation at least one time during each unit (which comes to about 1 or 2 times a quarter) on a topic related to what we are learning.  They then present their slide show to the rest of the class while the students take notes, fill in charts, etc. 

 As a part of the presentation rubric, I always require my students to include several visuals.  This would be a great site for students to use because you can be sure that they have permission to use the images. 

Another way I could use Flicker is on my class website.  I could greatly inhance the visual appeal of the site if I had some nice and professional photos on the site. 

Lastly, I could use this site to upload, store, and organize the picture I take of the students throughout the years as we go on fieldtrips and work on projects.  I could then allow parents to access the photos and save and photos of their child that they may want to have a copy of.

 I like that it has a search option so that you are able to find images related to a certain topic.  This will certainly make things easier for my students when they are searching for images to use in their projects. 

 I did a search for a photo related to “education” and here is one that I found on Flicker:

 

VIA. (2007, November 16). VIA Information PC for education. VIA Gallery. Retrieved NOVEMBER 6, 2009, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/viagallery/2110571280/.