Web 2.0 is a trend in the World Wide Web technology of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, and blogs, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.
Flickr is a free picture sharing web site that students could use in a high school social studies classroom. Flickr is an easily navagatable website that students should be able to use quickly and efficiently. The search option makes looking for pictures very simple.
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In History 20 Core Material for Unit Two, students learn about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. If students had a project on the life of Hitler and the rise of the Nazi's, Flickr would be a useful place to acquire pictures of Hitler and Nazi leaders.
If the project was to be completed in a newspaper format, a teacher could mix some curricular objectives and implement Module 19: Desktop Publishing from the Practical and Applied Arts curriculum. The students would still be able to use Flickr as a resource for looking up pictures of Hitler and the Nazi's and then use the desktop publishing to put it in a newspaper.
