Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Flickr: maybe not the most appropriate
So I wanted to check out Flickr as a source for our students. On one hand, it has some really strong, artful photography and work published from working artists (and student artists), which would be great for image storming. On the other hand, I searched 'sex' and some not-so-tasteful images popped up as a result. By no means did these come close to what one might find when Googling the word, but school appropriate? Maybe not. So there is the conundrum. How do we allow a useful image site, but control content results while searching? Any thoughts?
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There are parental controls that are on most newer model computers which allow you to block specific key phrases from being searched. I'm not sure how to do it however, I'd have to look it up.
ReplyDeleteAnother way you can do this is to type in the phrases yourself into flicker or whatever search engine you're using, copy the url for that page, and then go into parental controls and put that page on the "blocked" list, so that even if students tried to search it, the resulting page would show up...
Just a couple thoughts :-)
correction to the ending of that last one...
ReplyDelete"if student tried to search it, the resulting page *wouldn't* show up".