How to Create a Killer Report

Recently I became a contributor to Blissfully Domestic and while familiarizing myself with their guidelines for posting, I came across a terrific article about how to create more compelling blog posts using Flickr.  As I take most of my own article photographs, it never occurred to me to use Flickr for photos… and while I upload all of my images as creative commons licensed images, I never thought about using other photographer’s cc licensed photos for myself!

You should really read the article, it explains so much better than I ever could.  It’s alright, I’ll wait here. I even set it up to open in a new window, so that you can find your way back here when your done, by simply closing the new window.

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Hi.  Welcome back.  Great article, right?

So the other day the boy child needed to create a report for his virtual class and needed to use images to get the full credit for the assignment.  I had, what I thought, was a brilliant idea so I taught Travis (and Haley) to use Flickr as well.

I bookmarked (favorited, whatever) in their browsers, the direct link to the creative commons search page on Flickr, and typed in our first subject, “Hammurabi“.  It returned beautiful images that he could use in his report.  I taught him how to link the picture to the proper page as well as add a text link to give credit.  He created a terrific report with stunning images and the teacher gave him the maximum number of points and even had some lovely comments.

Since then we’ve used it for assignments about weather and religions and I can’t imagine a topic that wouldn’t return at least a few images.  In addition to the reports, it also gave me the opportunity to talk about copyright, and usage and protecting your own original content as well as that of others.

’cause as a Homeschooling Mom we’re all about combining lessons, aren’t we?

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