100 Apps for Tech-Savvy Teachers

This is a great site to look at when wanting to include some sort of technology into any classroom. It has a ton of sites to use and apps. This is one site that every educator should bookmark or save because it has so many useful sites that could make an educator's life that much easier. A few of these we have covered, and a few we have heard of or glanced at, but I decided to look more into Flickr since we briefly discussed it in class.

As we have learned, Flickr has a creative commons area where people can share and take photos without having to use citation or accidently plagiarizing. Being able to use this site for a project for a history class for say a newspaper, a student could create a free account and be able to access pictures for their newspaper without having to cite anything. Flickr creative commons is teamed up the the Library of Congress, which is exactly what it sounds like -it's a website created by those who work the Library of Congress in the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Their goals are to provide more information and knowledge to the American peoples via the internet. So, at the end of it all, Flickr's creative commons has a background in history. The creative commons do have a lot of historical pictures which would help a lot in a history classroom. Also, there are many different corporations and institutions that are involved that share their own images - with these photos I'm pretty sure one would need to use citations because they are owned by those institutions, but at least the student and teacher would know that these photos are legitimate because they came from an educational site.

Being able to use a website that has photos basically "plagiarism-free" for lack of a better term, is a great, useful place to do some research in any class for any project. The institutions that are sharing their informational and useful photos are a great help too for any kind of teacher and classroom.