FlickrLeech- yet another way to search for images!

What can I say? Another tool that allows you to search Flickr for images. FlickrLeech is another very simple tool to use. You can choose to search through photos using tags or for a particular user, group or interestingness. You can also choose how you want the interface style to look, (I preferred the “dark” setting), [...]

Web2.0 Weekly Challenge

Looking around the web today for ideas for teaching using web2.0 tools I found the following site. The Web2.0 Wednesday Weekly Challenge offers tutorials on a variety of Web 2.0 tools, with an emphasis on Goggle tools. There are many tools listed down the left-hand side of the site, with very easy-to-follow instructions and there [...]

Images and words: using, manipulating, playing

Whilst I was on-line this morning up popped a couple of emails, One was sent by a teacher and it included the photograph below. I looked around the web and found a blog, CFRU 93.3fm Election Radio, which posted the photo with the following text It would seem that the credit crunch is having a really significant impact in [...]

Creative Commons vs Copyright

I am still working on creating a good collection of resources to explain copyright, fair use/fair dealing and Creative Commons. I came across this slide collection on Flickr. It is a short tale of copyright and fair-use. A Tale of Two Fish  http://www.flickr.com/photos/yiibu/sets/1474876/show/ It is best viewed as a slide set and sets out the differences between [...]

The Free Rice campaign: new range of topics

Last year I read about the Free Rice site and then a member of our RE staff also sent it around. Since then it has occasionally come up again. When I looked at the site again I saw some changes on the website that I thought I would let you know about. If you haven’t seen [...]