Photo Credit: Alles (https://pixabay.com/en/helmet-army-german-helmet-soldier-1465352/)
This was the photo I chose from Pixabay because my students will be studying World War I soon and this is a primary identifier for Germany in political cartoons at the time. I was really impressed with Pixabay and the quality of the photos and the ease with what I found them. Generally I just do Google searches and become frustrated with the quality of pictures so I will definitely be adding this to my arsenal as well as remembering to use Flickr. I was also really interested in exploring Historypin as I taught a History of Rochester course and I think it would be cool assignment to have students upload their own Historypin pictures around Rochester. I really liked the 10 Ways to Use Instagram in the Classroom article as well because although I have done the "histogram" template with events like the French Revolution and historical figures. With my students it would still be really interesting to see them actually use the Social Media app in conjecture with global history influences around Rochester, maybe even like a scavenger hunt or who can come up with clever history captions.
Isn't pixabay great? And historypin is terrific. Hope you do have your students add information, such a perfect companion to your History of Rochester course.
ReplyDelete