Spell with Flickr is so much fun! I love how you can actually change the pictures for each letter. You are not stuck with the randomly generated letters! It seems to be limited to a single word, though. I tried some two word phrases, and when I copied the code over, it took out the space between the two words. There is probably something you can change in the code when you copy it over, but that is a little advanced for me! I did have the idea that you could make two separate images (one for each word) and place them side-by-side to give the illusion of having created a phrase. Spell with Flicker would be a fun way to spice up a teacher's blog or PowerPoint presentations to catch the attention of students
I also really liked retrievr. I thought it was fun to draw a shape in a color to pull up "like" images. I am not sure how you could use this in the classroom, but I really enjoyed it.
Flickr Color Picker was also fun to play with (similar to retriever). I like groups of things that are the same color (part of my collector's heart, I think). When I used this Flickr Mashup, the first thing I thought of was teaching young children the basic colors using this tool to generate cool pictures.
I think sharing photos is a wonderful idea. Flickr can provide students with a great visual experience. If a student would like to visit the Grand Canyon but cannot travel, the student can simply search for Grand Canyon in Flickr to pull up many photographs of what the Grand Canyon looks like. Many of the photographs are high quality and provide a large amount of detail.
I believe it is important to use as many photographs as possible thoughout the teaching process. Photographs provide students with information they can see, which is easier to remember than a list of characteristics in text. It is also much more interesting to students.
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