Images

This chapter of Wes Fryer's book talked mainly about image sharing and how to correctly locate pictures to use in presentations and other classroom oriented activities. One of the things that Fryer really highlighted was the importance of using public domain images, or creative commons images, so students have permission to use all the images they would like to use. He encourages the use of special websites and search engines that cater to creative commons images, so students don't have to worry as much about getting copyright permission.

Another thing Fryer talks a lot in this chapter, is good websites of image sharing. He talks about different websites that can be used to upload and share photos on. Image sharing is such a new thing, but might be required for students to do now in the classroom, so he gives quite a few examples of different websites that can be used for not only image sharing, but also image editing, if photoshop is something that is unavailable to students.

One of my favorite things that Fryer stressed in this chapter is the importance of images in PowerPoints and other visual presentations. While text is important in classroom presentations, images and graphics can break up the text and make it more appealing for the people who are viewing it.

Resources

Flickr: Creative Commons, I really loved this resource. I have such a problem finding images sometimes, so having a resource with so many different images all that are free to use. I really want to use something like this in my classroom and make it available to my students, because I know a lot of the time, students might be kind of lazy and not be bothered to look for images they are allowed to use, so something like this would be a really good resource for students. 

Tumblr, I've been using Tumblr for quite a few years now, but after talking about it in class the other day and reading this chapter, I never really thought it could be a resource for students in the classroom, but I really want to try and find a way to incorporate it into a lesson. Not only does it have great image sharing capabilities, but it also has so many resources on it, through it's search functions, that it could be really useful to students!