Fun With Flickr Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online Chapter 7 Blogs, Wikis, Poscasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

Digital images can be created in the classroom Free photo housing website Allows users to create digital photo albums and multimedia presentations Uses in the classroom –Discussion from around the world about your image –Combine images of similar topics with others –Write about different scenes-use as a writing prompt –Automatically receive related images as they are posted Introduction

flickr Web-based digital photography portal but more than a publishing site –Contributors interact and share and learn from each other in creative and interesting ways making it a huge potential in the classroom

Share with parents, colleagues, community and students highlights or events through pictures –Examples: special projects, speakers, programs, visitors, field trips Celebrations of good student work to share with the world Uses of flickr in the Classroom

No content guarantees of quality or appropriateness on flickr –Filters are set Members self-police Become familiar with the positives and risks before introducing flickr to students Teach expectations and appropriate use Cautions

Basics Registration is required 100MB of storage is free $24.95 a year-unlimited uploads, unlimited storage, and unlimited viewing ability

Getting Started Add images by uploading them –M–Make all edits before uploading Restrict viewing or not –R–Restrict viewing allows only those you “invite” to view the images –P–Public viewing allows the world to see and interact Tag your pictures with keywords Create private groups so you and students can work in your “own” space Discussion can be turned off on some or all of your submitted photos

What Can flickr Do in the Classroom? Teach social software Teach geography by integrating Google Earth Annotate The sky is not the limit Digital stories Presentations Slide shows Virtual field trips Illustrate poetry Document school work

There is a tutorial for interested users to view on ways to utilize the program.

Annotation Tool Use digital image (yours or someone else’s-site the source) –Copyright licenses allowing legal reuse Allows notes to be added to the image itself

Students can annotate what they see

Use images to enhance instruction.

Connecting people from around the world –Meet and learn with others from far-flung places Have a global sense of the world in photos when paired with Google Earth or Google Maps –Opens to the location on Google Earth –Shows other images taken at the same spot –Students could form a photo tour of a community Real Power of flickr

Serve as a student’s online portfolio –Work is annotated with reflective descriptions –Comments made by peers and mentors A valuable tool for current events –Images posted almost as they happen via camera phones Send pictures also from flickr to your Webpage or Weblog

Educators –Engaged writing –Supplemental material –Record field trips –Produce magazine covers or movie posters flickr in Practice

Magazine Cover and much more

Examples Make It Mine –T–Take an image –R–Remix it in a photo-editing program –R–Republish it Give credit to the original owner Random Writes –T–Think of a word –T–Type it in as a tag –T–Take the first photo –W–Write about it Photo Field Trips –S–Search for images –T–Three different sources –P–Prepare them in a presentation

An Example of a Random Write