Analysis
How does the Flickr support learning?
Flickr can be used in a variety of different ways in the classroom to help the student visualize and work collaboratively. Those are two very strong aspects of Flickr. Students can collaborate on projects because of the photo sharing feature and Flickr gives access to a large number of images. Presentations are a common and obvious use of Flickr. Instructors use the site to upload their own images and/or find images to use in their class room presentations. The images are used to represent ideas, show associations, and liven up a lecture or PowerPoint. Here the images serve as enhancement to convey information.
I have read of a school giving their students assignments to collect stock images. This is where people shoot images of leaves, trees, bark, acorn, buildings, windows, glass and so on to be used by others. The images are not specifically shot for the person’s use but to be contributed to a collection of images. The students then upload their images to the site to be used by anyone in the school. Students and faculty are contributing, interacting, and collaborating to create a useable image collection that relieves the school from concerns about copyright violation since the school owns the rights to these images.
Another example of how photo sharing is used in a collaborative way is when students create a presentation together. Flickr allows the students to take their individual contributions and organize them with other students’ contributions to combine the images into any number of presentation forms. This could be achieved as easily by students from the four corners of the country as it could by students in the same classroom.
I have created a whole section devoted to detailing how Flickr can and should be used to support learning. To learn more about this aspect please read through theClassroom Use section of this website. To look at specific examples you can go to How can you use Flickr in the classroom?
I have read of a school giving their students assignments to collect stock images. This is where people shoot images of leaves, trees, bark, acorn, buildings, windows, glass and so on to be used by others. The images are not specifically shot for the person’s use but to be contributed to a collection of images. The students then upload their images to the site to be used by anyone in the school. Students and faculty are contributing, interacting, and collaborating to create a useable image collection that relieves the school from concerns about copyright violation since the school owns the rights to these images.
Another example of how photo sharing is used in a collaborative way is when students create a presentation together. Flickr allows the students to take their individual contributions and organize them with other students’ contributions to combine the images into any number of presentation forms. This could be achieved as easily by students from the four corners of the country as it could by students in the same classroom.
I have created a whole section devoted to detailing how Flickr can and should be used to support learning. To learn more about this aspect please read through theClassroom Use section of this website. To look at specific examples you can go to How can you use Flickr in the classroom?