Photo Sharing

Maggie, a photo by cjmiddleton on Flickr.

I enjoyed my experience with the photo sharing site Flickr. It was very easy to upload photos and to tag and add descriptions to them. Once I uploaded some photos, I enjoyed looking around at all of the photos available on the site. A neat feature that I never knew about was the ability to add comments on areas of a picture. I can see how this can be used in a classroom setting.

One of the group areas I viewed was the tag “dogs”. Above is a picture of my dog Maggie. As I am writing this blog, she is laying under my desk waiting for me to go for a walk with her.

I never considered before how a photo sharing site would offer learning opportunities in the classroom. After reading and exploring Flickr, I can see how photos can be used for an online travel trip, a class could create a community of learners through the tags and comments of photos, a photo can also be used as a story starter. Any of these ideas would be using Communication and Collaboration in addition to using Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making skills from the NETS-S standards.