More From Flickr, Does it Ever End?? Using Big Huge Labs

Big Huge Labs offers a great deal of potential to get students interested in the subject matter within Social Studies. Pictures are worth a thousand words and if that is true, Big Huge Labs has more words in it than anything out there. The site offers numerous ways on how to incorporate visuals into any type of lesson or project.

I would use Big Huge Labs as part of a final assessment for my students. I would have them create a magazine cover or a movie poster that would incorporate pictures and themes about the information they just learned about in the previous unit plan. By doing it this way, students have created their own piece of work that allows them to explain the information they just learned into their own words. This will better help them understand and process the information so they can retain it for future use.

Big Huge Labs also allows the students to sort through thousands of pictures on Flickr, something they may not be able to do with conventional means. It enhances the learning process and eases the stress on the students by being able to find pictures all in one place.

by Juan Rubiano

Flickr...Creative Common Licensing

Creative common licensing allows the owner of a picture to decide on the extent of which their picture can be used by the general public. On Flickr, there are four different types of licensing that are offered to the owners' of the pictures.

1. Attribution: You allow others to display and distribute your copyrighted works as long as you are given credit.

2. Noncommercial: You allow users to display your works and derivative works based upon it, but for noncommercial use only.

3. No Derivative Works: You allow users to copy and paste your items as they are,, no derivative works may be done to them.

4. Share Alike: You allow others to display derivative works, but only under the same license as your picture is under.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bexwalton/ / CC BY 2.0