A street vendor on Montreal’s Place d’Armes. ©2012 Shankar S
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shankaronline/8392037456/

Images…Images everywhere, but which ones can I use? and how might I use them in my class? First of all, I took Laura’s advice and looked at Flickr. I’ve never really looked at Flickr before and have always used Google to find images. Wow, what a mistake that was..Flickr Creative Commons is a great resource! The Commons has a great collection of historical photographs. Another great image resource is Artstor which is available at many colleges. I also never really looked at what the Windows 7 Snipping Tool could do. It has annotating and highlighting tools. I can annotate some of my map images using this tool. Cool! –my son had advised me that “sick” is the new cool. Guess I have to keep up on the current trends in slang. 🙂

I found Ko & Rossen’s tips on designing web pages very useful. I realized that I had seen many of their suggestions in use without really thinking about them. For example, not having readers scrolling through a long document, but providing some type of navigation or linkage. I’ve also seen them not in use – such as web sites that use the wrong color fonts with light backgrounds. I wondered if anyone has used their suggestions concerning organizing your text into two columns?

Finally, I took their suggestion and looked at the Edublog Awards for 2013. I was really impressed with what people can do with their blogs. The best new Web 2.0 tool was a Glogster. This platform sure has the ability to place video, audio, images, and text together in a very interactive way on your blog. Here is an example: ITC Magic. Very busy, but interesting graphical interface. With all of these tools I have to remember that sound pedagogy comes first when considering their use.