Thing 10: Fun with Flickr
My students are currently reading the novel by Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone which is set in a fictitious village in Cornwall, England. Because the setting is unfamiliar with many of my students, I have gathered several images from Flickr which I feel best portray the landmarks mentioned in the book. The image below (uploaded by scribex) is of a stone circle on Bodmin Moor and is much like the standing stones mentioned in our novel.
The next image posted by yibble shows a cave near the sea in Cornwall, much like the one where King Arthur’s grail is hidden in our story.
Thing 9: Creative Commons
I have not noticed the Creative Commons logo on websites in the past. But I will be sure to look for it now! It has been brought to my attention that I cannot legally share my classroom materials that feature cut and pasted pictures and maps from Google searches. The thought that I was doing something wrong never entered my mind…I really thought that I was doing the right thing by adding a citation below the image.
I’m really excited about the OER Commons site. I’ve already searched the site for some lessons plans…hopefully I will become ambitious enough to add some materials of my own. Before I started working on Thing 9, I had the crazy idea that some other teacher in this world might want to use some of the lesson plans and worksheets that I have created for some of my novel studies (not so much because I think so highly of my work, but because these are novels with very few available resources). It’s a good thing that I got this far in this course so I can post these materials appropriately!
