Flickr is a safe and legal way to use 'other' people's photos. Combining Flickr and Flickr Creative Commons you and your learners are copying legally.
Once learners are shown how to link/embed images into their photostories, blogs and wikis etc there is no ending to how visual they can make their work.
Images/photos can be embedded in different sizes from original size, large, medium, small down to thumbnail and smaller 75x75 allowing images to fit into learners work. Learners are able to choose which size fits best.
Learners must always acknowledge the owner of the photo etc, learner managers must make sure learners know the rules.
Flickr is a great resource to obtain photos for a topic which otherwise you would not have images for.
However, using someone else's photos is not the same as using your own. This might take away the learners feeling of ownership of their work. Flickr has the facilities to use your own photos which would allow the learners' to take full ownership of their work when possible eg excursions, local area assignments etc.
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