The easiest place for teachers and students to begin experimenting with creating and publishing content other that text is with digital photography, a technology that is coming more and more accessible every day. What better way to celebrate the good work that students do every day than by putting it online for all (or some) to see?.

In Flickr you could easily post 500 images per month without too much worry. Flickr does allow for the creation of private groups where you and your students (and other invited guest) can work in your own space, you can also turn off discussion on any or all of the photo that you submit

The “annotation feature” which allows you to add notes to parts of the image and the best thing about Flickr is that the vast majority of the photo on the site are appropriate for all. But the real power of Flickr lies in the ways it can connect people from around the world. This can be done in a safe way without students divulging any personal information.

Not only can you make it so that the photos you upload to Flickr open up to the place where they were taken on Google Earth, but you can begin to see all the other Flickr photos that have been taken in that same spot as well. You start by finding the exact latitude and longitude of where a picture was taken

using Flickr to connect students and teachers during their summer vacations, posting pictures of their travels and talking back and forth about what they are seeing and learning? That's a pretty powerful application if you ask me.