Creative Commons Lab

One of the things that I always try to do in my classroom is incorporate “real world” elements into lessons to provide background knowledge and allow students to make connections.  Often, I find that a quick picture can provide a multitude of connections for students to abstract concepts in mathematics.  Unfortunately, in the past I never knew how to properly cite a photo, nor did I know about the many images and text available through Creative Commons.  To better illustrate how I use photos to enhance student engagement and connections, I would like to talk about how I introduce slope.  During these lessons, I like to show different types of slow that we see.  Positive slope are hills going up, zero slope are flat plains, and so forth.  To illustrate negative slope, I would use the picture below.  One important element for my pictures would be that, according to the creative commons, I would be given permission to adapt the work.  For the picture, I would want to create a line along the frame of the hill to show the negative slope. 

Photo Attribution:

Original Image:   “Snowboarding Midair ca. 1990's”

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AsxBKTdRn_E/Ru07Awrj-II/AAAAAAAAAbI/0CrzC1x7xYA/WIN-18PB016-004.jpg

By: ethan

Released under an Attribution-Share Alike License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/