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The K12Online 2007 presentation titled Me Blog, No Way! is by John Pearce, an Educational Consultant in Australia who put together a short, humorous look at educators who do not blog at all with their students or for themselves. In an entertaining way he emphasized the need for teachers to provide literacy in using new technologies such as blogging or the students will learn through less structured forms. I think he made several good points and put forth good encouragement to educators to use new technologies to teach literacy with our students.

I then visited his blog called My Other Blog to gain more insights on his ideas. I found it a thoughtful, lively place and I especially appreciated his post about images and copyright titled I Want a New Image. The problem of students (and others!) using images illegally or without attribution has long been around. He mentions two new places to find images that students can safely use. One that I had heard of and used is FlickrCC which was created by John Johnstone to help with finding images from Flickr that have Creative Commons licensing. Another flickr search tool, that I hadn’t heard of was called Compfight. I have only had a bit of time to look at it, but it offers some interesting possibilities as well.

Lastly, I really liked Pearce’s idea of tagging pictures in Flickr with the common tag,  pics4school. If they had a Creative Commons licensing and enough educators contributed pictures to Flickr and tagged them in this way, we could create a large image bank for educational use. What do you think of that idea? I might give it a go on some of my own Flickr pictures.

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