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Students Adding Images
Students should be able to upload images to use in slideshows they create using Stellar Images. This became clear to me while talking to Susan Slyomovics, and anthropology professor and photographer, who has students create photo exhibits as a final project for her class, Photography and Truth.
I've mentioned before that I think Stellar - and Sakai - tend to focus a bit too much on how instructors use the software. There are fairly few opportunities to students to more than passively receive information from the sites. Students should be able to add resources to the class materials page, for example. I'm hoping the Images tool will help us break the habit of focussing on the model of professors lecturing to passive students, and allow for some more collaborative teaching and learning.
We could achieve these goals quickly by using the Flickr API to add creative commons images and images from user's own accounts to the set of browsable collections in the Stellar Images.