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On a personal note, I had no idea that Amazon Prime has free unlimited photo storage! My husband and I will both be able to free up so much space on our phones. We’re very grateful for that tip! As an educator, I love the idea of book spine poetry and envision my older students (fourth graders) creating some really cool poems. That’s definitely an activity I’ll be sharing with teachers as I help support their poetry units. Here is an elementary library example I created: I also enjoyed using Pixabay for the first time to find some beautiful photos for our upcoming China unit. I have been using our paid Britannica Images database but like to have additional resources on hand as well. Here is a stunning image of the Great Wall of China from Pixabay: Although the Pixabay website says, “No attribution required,” a lack of citation under the photo above feels very strange to me and will take some getting used to!
One additional idea inspired by this Photo Fun lesson is using the “I Spy” game as a creative way for students to show their knowledge at the end of a unit. Students could draw major objects or landmarks from a unit on American symbols, country studies, etc. or could find copyright-friendly images, then could write their own clues to attach to a portion of each image to share their knowledge with others in a fun, engaging way.
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Polly-Alida
2/25/2018 05:10:32 pm
Love the book spine poem you created! I agree about the attribution issue. I try to do it anyways with Pixabay images. Good to get kids in the habit and also helps them remember that they actually got a photo from a copyright free site.
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