Flickr
Plus:
- Engaging
- Students enjoy seeing their work published
- Possibility to comment on each other’s work - peer assessment
- Interact and join classmates on their account
- Parents can access from home to see what is happening in the classroom or see students work
- A varied way to display ideas / concepts or assessment task sheet - appeals to visual learners
- A picture tells a thousand words - a range of images could be limitless
- Creative commons licensing
- Students could portray what they are feeling better with pictures than words
- Facebook and other sites support Flickr
- Able to further edit photos
Minus:
- Publishing, copyright, privacy and safety issues
- Videos only for paying members
- Only 100 mb a month for a free account (may cause issues with multiple students using same account for group work)
- Once it's uploaded it's always there
- Parents are able to see other students work and make judgements
- Not a lot to design and personalize
Interesting / Applications
- Students can show family class work
- Students can tag where a photo was taken (geography) and write a story about it (English)
- Flickr also shows popular Flickr accounts such as Space Flight centre or White House that students can view
- Students could use this to create an assignment instead of creating a poster on card
Flickr is a basic site for sharing pictures with other people. This site
is quite easy and basic to navigate and create. Most options / buttons
are labelled for ease of creating. Students could use this tool to communicate
with a pen pal by displaying images from each other’s countries to show
differences in culture. Students could also use it as an online newsletter to
communicate to parents and other staff what their class is up to.
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