chapter 7

Chapter 7: Fun with Flicker

Flicker is a Web tool that students and teachers can use to show/share their classroom work or projects in the form of photographs.  It’s free for up to 100 MB of photos and up to 2 500 MB of videos.  Editing photos should be done before sending to Flicker (Picnik.com if your computer doesn’t have is suggested).  Access can be restricted to specific individuals or groups. Google David Jakes for suggestions on using this in the classroom and Alan Levine’s “What can we can do with Flickr?”  Other suggestions include tagging information units and adding it to a diorama, having students comment or interpret various pictures,  Flickr with Google maps and earth to give a global sense  of the picture, photo community tour, reflective journals, class homepages,  and recording  field trips.  Other related sites that the author suggested using were Flickr Toolbox: 100+Tools for Flickr Addicts;  FlickrReplacer Bookmark; Flickr Color Picker;  Flicktion.

I showed the students some creative student work found on the web which interpreted  Maya Angela’s poem “The Caged Bird Sings”, which combined text with images.  I don’t know if this was done with Flickr, but it seemed to have all the elements of the features of Flickr in it.  Something similar could be done with future poetry assignments.