Flickr

What is Flickr? On online photo sharing site. a simple explanation:



How can Flickr be used in the classroom:
* use it in the design of lessons that promote and build visual literacy skills in students.
* use single photographs as writing prompts (either creative or interpretive writing) to using multiple image sets in digital storytelling projects.
* Student users can also contribute to the development of online stories about images, where contributors write storylines in the comment area of each
photograph in a process know as Flicktion.
*photographs can be geotagged, a process that links Flickr imagery with the geographical location of the source of the photo, permitting a visual, geographical study of a particular location or place.
* create virtual field trips and as a source of imagery to improve student presentations.
* use for evaluation and peer feedback by using the comment field.
Anywhere visual images are required, such as presentation, etc.
* Single image analysis
* Visual documentation of student artwork and other school products
* Creation of digital visual portfolios, using the photoset function of Flickr
* Social software applications: how to tag, how to make comments
* Delivery of school/classroom visual information via RSS
* The use of third party Flickr applications to produce classroom products:
a. Motivational posters
b. Magazine Covers
c. Movie Posters
d. Flickr slideshow
e. Mosaic Makers

A great site that educators are sharing their thoughts- Flickr in the Classroom.

Tom's new dog on Flickr: