Think of ways you or your staff may be able to use Flickr and share your ideas. What issues might you face? What policies need to be in place to ensure student safety and appropriate use of sites like Flickr?
Obviously a picture is worth a thousand words. Staff could create files of images that relate directly to the curriculum they are teaching. They could also encourage students to create accounts to search for their own images and reflect on them as it pertains to the topic being taught. The challenges will always lie in what needs to be filtered for appropriateness for a school setting. I would work closely with our tech people to ensure to the best of our ability that searches would not provide inappropriate images. We have many policies in place currently through our district technology plan. We have a very tight and rigid filter in place at this point. As a building leader, I often find myself advocating for some site access as we are often blocked from some truly amazing places.
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Deciding how a district opens access to sites like Flickr can be difficult. Here's a post from a blog I read that might give you some food for thought on the topic - "Using flickr In The Classroom … Or Should We?"
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