Thing 5-Image Mashups

Exploring Flickr has become an escape for me, but Image Mashups took me a little longer to get excited about.  I played with several Flickr Color Pickr and Montagr.  Although I had fun with Color Pickr, I couldn't really identify a significant educational use for this site.  The idea of Montagr intrigued me, but I was never able to get the site to open on my computer.   I could input a topic in the search bar, but it would search indefinitely.  After clicking on nearly every tool on The Quick Online Tools Page, I found one that I thought could add significant value to the classroom, and that was Flickriver.  This tool allows the user to search for pictures by topic and lines them all up on one page. As I consider the web quest I will be developing in this course, I thought that this may be a great way to offer students a variety of images to choose from for project presentations, rather than just sending them to search for images on the web.  When given open access to search for images, students often end up overwhelmed by images, or may accidentally end up on sites we do not wish them to view.  Using links from Flickriver will allow a teacher to manage the image choices and confirm that the pictures students are viewing are acceptable.  Use the links to view Flickrivers I might consider using in future web quests.

http://www.flickriver.com/search/endangered+animals/ 

http://www.flickriver.com/search/alaska/

http://www.flickriver.com/search/iditarod/