In the next year, I intend to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into my curriculum. This photo caught my attention.
(2005, November 20). Leighblackall's Photostream. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/65030029/
Classroom uses of Flickr:
· To create a writing prompt based on a single image
· To post, view or download digital images for classroom projects
· To create slide shows within Flickr.
· To take Virtual field trips
· To visually document school events
· To teach about social software, how to tag, and how to make comments.
· To be used as an alternative to PowerPoint
· To create a walking tour of a historical area
· To make materials such as diagrams, charts, etc., available to students as an e-handout.
· To create a writing prompt based on a single image
· To post, view or download digital images for classroom projects
· To create slide shows within Flickr.
· To take Virtual field trips
· To visually document school events
· To teach about social software, how to tag, and how to make comments.
· To be used as an alternative to PowerPoint
· To create a walking tour of a historical area
· To make materials such as diagrams, charts, etc., available to students as an e-handout.
There are several possibilities to use Flickr in the classroom. Ten years ago, my students wrote letters to another school in the United States as part of the Great Mail Race. The partnering school then sent back letters in response. Today, online tools could be used for the communication and photos could be uploaded to Flickr for the students to view. Students from both schools could make comments and have a group discussion.
3 comments:
I really like the idea of a virtual fieldtrip. It's another way to explode the walls of the classroom. There are so many subjects that are more effectively presented through visual images, but the most dramatic difference comes, I think, when we can give students a direct experience of the subject studied. How many times have I cringed at the tiny, dull pictures of the Sistine Ceiling in a textbook? I can just imagine taking a series of Flickr images, combining them, and projecting them onto the ceiling of a class - the whole of the Creation of Adam, full size. It would knock socks off all over the place! Ok, so maybe I don't have the technological ability to do that quite yet. But who knows? It doesn't seem that impossible anymore.
In case you're interested, here's a link to the Flickr image I found for my blog entry. The ideas are very similar.
http://judykaplow.edublogs.org/2007/11/20/flickring/
You have provided a nice list of ideas on different ways to use Flickr!
What an interesting picture, it creates some thought provoking ideas that could be used in the classroom. There are several different directions one could veer off to from studying that picture. It could open a classroom up to lots of discussion and debate, and lets face it, that is what we are trying to accomplish. Your ideas written within your blog are top notch in themselves. I truely believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in education that can become very valuable. why not have the up to date technology at our finger tips to use when that time is calling?
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