Teaching and learning with Flickr
Over the past couple of years I’ve come across some really interesting uses of Flickr (an online photo-sharing site that’s been going since Feb 2004) in the classroom. What I thought I’d do is share some of them with you in the hope that these examples will be shared with your own learning communities.
Let’s start with some favourites:
- Great overview - using Flickr to describe Flickr
- Art history - using the notes facility on Flickr
- Language teaching using six-picture story sets - you’ll see the first photo in a series of six. View the full stream on the right of the page and read the descriptions underneath to help the story unfold. Great way to teach kids planning (in this case, story-boarding) and playing with language. Note how peer-review can be encouraged through use of the comments facility.
- Literature studies - using artefacts to help understanding of themes, plot etc in novels.
- Creating a museum - using Flickr as a navigational tool for classroom displays that demonstrate learning outcomes.
- Project-based learning group on Flickr
- Classroom International on Flickr
- Classroom displays group - well worth viewing as a photo-stream, just for ideas and inspiration.
Hope you find them useful.
PS I found this through a search on trigonometry…
Kirsten
12 September 2008 at 4:52 pm
I have been meaning to catch up on the OPLS blog since joining the organization. All fantastic ideas, Lee! I have used flickr in my classroom to get the children discussing, as well as use it to exhibit work. I have used the the location search for images to find geo-tagged images of a particular location. Great for geography, social studies, humanities etc.