Flickr in Education

I had mentioned in our webcast about students being able to learn about other cultures through flickr photos. There's actually some relevance for several content areas. When you're editing your photos, adding comments, tags.. on the right, under Additional Information, there's an option to "Place this photo on a map".

When I had blogged about this a while back, I had come across some underwater animal photos that had been placed on the map. I thought it would be a cool way for students to do research on animals, or people, or a multitude of 'things' via that map. You could also, obviously, search the tags for a country city, region, etc. to view photos. As I have just been looking, though, I see there are many photos that havent been placed on the map.

The place on a map feature is pretty cool, though. I suggest we all do that as it adds another level of richness to this resources.