Using Flickr to Enhance Student Learning

Using Flickr
to Enhance Student Learning
Image courtesy Flickr user Micah A. Ponce

What is Flickr?
http://www.flickr.com/
A photo sharing site that allows users to
upload photos
organize them by tagging
annotate them
share them
back them up and store them online
CommonCraft: Online Photo Sharing
in Plain English
Searching Flickr
Image courtesy Flickr user wallyg

Flickr Places:
Instant Field Trips
Monterey, California
San Jose, California
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Providence, Rhode Island
New London, Connecticut
Image courtesy Flickr user B*_J

Creative Commons
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Image courtesy Flickr user AlirezaTeimoury

Language Teaching
Authentic materials
What is kholodets?
What are sopes?
Vocabulary activation
solyanka
Student presentations
La SagradaFamilia
Great Wall of China
Writing prompts
Image courtesy Flickruser svenwerk

Across the Disciplines
Using annotations
Syndicate your
photos to blogs
The Commons
Interesting albums
and groups:
Happy Houses New Orleans
Revolution Day Moscow 1991
Image courtesy Flickr user photobunny

A faculty member has a great collection of photos taken in a particular location that they’d like to make available to a course >Flickr for storage and sharing
A group of students wants to document their volunteering in the community through photos, but needs a place to pool the images > Group tagging
A drive-thru window enthusiast wants to find a community of like-minded people > Flickr groups
A few scenarios…

How have you used Flickr?
Image courtesy Flickr user Bob Image2010

Using Flickr to Enhance Student Learning

by furnisse on Apr 20, 2010

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