Thing 7 Exploring Flickr

Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I explored Flickr and found many amazing photos taken by others. The link to the photographer who took this photo is at the bottom of this blog post. I encourage you to check out his other works and comment on this photo! I absolutely love Flickr and have made my own account. I have yet to upload my own photos, but plan to do so from this point on. 

My favorite part about exploring Flickr is that I can browse from millions of photos taken by people of different cultures that may live on the other side of the world. Nonetheless, I can see what they see. This is an invaluable resource. I plan to use Flickr in my classroom in order to show children photos of diverse students. I will show them the same pictures that help me to see through the eyes of another culture. As they would be able to see from the photo above, children in Asia have many things in common with children in America! We can talk until we're blue in the face, but sometimes it takes proof to truly teach. In this case, a picture could really be worth a thousand words!



Photo Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason_weemin/535636763/in/photostream/
This photo was taken June 7, 2007 by James D' Great