Using a couple of photographs on your web page is easy, but have more than a dozen and it starts to become confusing, especially if you want to change them often. Flickr http://www.flickr.com, or other similar photo sharing sites, provide the ease and flexibility that you want to display photographs. Using a media hosting site you can easily display hundreds of photos (and videos), write about them, and link them to blogs, all with a few mouse clicks. Best of all it is free.
Telling Stories
The type of images that can be displayed is only limited by your imagination. For example you can display art by taking pictures of student projects. Uploading takes less time than stapling them to a bulletin board. Students can explore photojournalism by explaining and commenting on their photographs; Flickr can become blog-like in its function. Your can see some of the possibilities by looking at http://www.flickr.com/photos/grade5/. Content intended to be displayed for extended periods is worth placing on your webpage http://www.cayooshkidz.net/interviews/mrsay.html .
Safety and Legal
The wellbeing of students is an absolute priority. Cayoosh Kidz never allows any identifying personal information to be associated with children. First names and photographs never appear together and last names are never used. We encourage students to create a web nickname to protect their identity.
Students do not have access to the sites where the information is stored. They present all of their work to a teacher who then posts the information. This prevents any possibility of direct contact between the students and someone who has seen their work online. Make sure that your school has a signed release form for every child that will be part of the multimedia project.
The images on the Cayoosh Kidz web site are student created photographs. It is necessary to carefully edit all photos for appropriate content before uploading them. Our resolution is kept low to discourage copying of the photographs.
The Canadian government provides an excellent resource to ensure general safety while using the Internet. http://www.safecanada.ca/link_e.asp?category=3&topic=94
Links for better photographs and learning ideas:
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/index.html
http://www.fujifilmusa.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/LearningLessonPlans.jsphttp://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_US&pq-path=317http://www.microsoft.com/education/Pictures.mspx http://www.shortcourses.com/
