Flicker Fun

Photography is a favorite hobby of many and it is great how many websites encourage this.  Digital cameras are a necessity in many families and photos are essential as well. Great ways to share the captured moment in this time period is by sharing pictures over the internet so many different can view them. Flicker is one of the most well known picture sharing sites and can be a great thing to use to share with family and use in the classroom.  This would be a great resource to be able to share moments with the students with parents and the community to have a visual of what the students are actually doing at school.  I feel that posting pictures online of a classroom helps relatives from a distance know what the child is doing in school and allows people to view what the school is actually doing.

Putting together a photo stream gives many visuals and can even be given to the students at the end of the year to recap of what they have done.  It gives students a yearbook of just their classroom, and all the material and activities they covered.

I thought it would be a great thing to do to have students interact with the pictures as it described in the chapter, to add notes to parts of pictures. This would work fantastic for vocabulary terms, for example, in identifying parts of a plant.

Adding pictures online is similar to adding different projects online as we talked about in previous chapters, but this gives a clear visual, and even with help of video, it can paint a full picture. This allows the community to give positive feedback and even push students to work harder because they realize that others will see their work.

With more knowledge of the subject I feel that posting pictures online and/or on a website similar to flicker would be a fantastic way to help parents and community members visualize what is taking place in my classroom.  I feel this could only benefit my classroom. It’s strange to realize how many resources we have on the web that we are yet unaware of and we don’t utilize to their full potential.