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I chose this image because coming up in my biology class we will be discussing photosynthesis and cellular respiration.  I find that both of these concepts can be extremely hard to teach without visuals and graphic organizers. 

Photo Attribution:

Original image: Simple photosynthesis overview.PNG
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by: Daniel Mayer
Released under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

I regularly use images and other media in my curriculum.  I strive to integrate them as much as possible.  I find that most students that if they can see it while they are learning it (modeling etc.), they tend to remember the concept.  In the blended curriculum that I have been teaching this year it has been crucial to have a media component to all of the lessons.  This lesson has taught me that I need to go back and review the media sources that I have been using and check their CC licenses.  I know while creating the first semester of the biology curriculum we were not making sure we were checking our sources before linking/embedding/copying and pasting.  This will definitely be something that I bring up to the higher ups at district.

On the other side of things, there are several lesson of my own creation that I have post to the Moodle site that my district uses that I did not get a CC license for now that I am more educated about CC I would like to a license for.