Flickr and Using DIgital Images in your Classroom

[Cyndi Danner-Kuhn]

Teachers From the Trenches
How do you use Digital Images in your classroom?

TECS 290 students
Share the Flickr Photo project your created, tell us what you think about Flickr and how you think you might use it in your own classroom someday.

[Bronwyn Smith]

This is the link to my slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10030906@N08/show/
My mom is from Australia, so I used pictures from our vacation there in my slideshow because this is where I would go if I had the money to just take off for a year. One of the pictures of the flowers is in the show twice - the original is actually the second pic. I uploaded my Flickr photos to Picnik, so when I edited the photo, it sent the edited copy back to my Flickr account automatically. This is soooooo cool!!!!! I love taking pictures and messing with my digital camera. I have so many photos to upload, it will take me forever!!! I had no idea that these sites existed! If I didn't have other homework to do, I would spend all week playing on this site! Thanks so much for introducing this to us!!!! I am getting all kinds of ideas for using this in my classroom. At the beginning of the year, we could take a picture of each student in my class. Then we can upload it to flickr, which will send it to picnik automatically. We can use the edit options to make the student's pictures look funny and then put them up around the room for the year. I am just so excited - I can't wait until summer classes are over so I will have time to play with these sites!!!

[Nicole Reichert]

This website has so many possiblities it is unbelievable. You can create and upload your own photose or you can use someone elses photos for a project. There is so many things you can do with your photos. You can edit them and add descrpitions and tags. Add sets and orgainize your photos the ways you want it to look. This website is endless in that you can find about any photo on this website. This is great for the classroom. Students can use this site to look up photos and use them in a project for a slideshow or they can just reaserch on the site. Studetns can put thier own photos on the site and share with other users.

The website is a great resource for all educators and studetns. I used the site to create a slideshow of the different people in my family to show the human growth development. How someone can grow from a young baby to an adolescent to a young adult and finally reaching adulthood. It can just show how different people are and the changes they have to unergo in order to grow up.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10074808@N03/

[Alice Mercer]

Okay, bunch of new flickr apps on Ed Tech Talk Weekly:

http://del.icio.us/edtechtalk/flickr

I highly recommend listening to this show. It's on weekly on Sundays at 6p.m. CDT Lots of great tips.

[Lucas Moll]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10255381@N03/sets/

Above is the link to my set. It is a leaf identification guide for trees that are relatively common in my hometown. Unfortunately I had no digital camera so I had to use Photo Booth(picture quality is pretty bad). In the future I may make photo sets like these and link them to my website. Students could then navigate to my Flickr page and study for an upcoming identification quiz.

[Jill Whitson]

My flickr link to see the set of photos I put together for my project

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnwhitson/sets/72157600929897594/
This is just the regular link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnwhitson/
The project that I did was the steps to making Zoo Cage Snacks. This is something that I would use in my preschool classroom at a center. I would print off the pictures with the directions with them and have them laminated. The children can follow the picture directions to make their zoo cage snack.
I added the directions in the description boxes. When I put them in a set I got them in order but during the slide show the directions are not included. When they are just posted the directions are with them but it would not keep them in the right order. I suppose that I need to play with it some more to get it all figured out.
I take a lot of pictures in my classroom. Most of them I attach to colored paper with captions with them and have them laminated and then we display them where the children and parents can see them. After awhile I bind them together to make books that are at our reading center. We will also make other books with pictures of the children. We did a book like the Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See only using a picture of the children and they make up what they see. Children love to see themselves. It is amazing how much they change over the school year. I also try to submit photos to the local newspapers of the students activities to keep the community up to date as to what is going on.
I know my project is probably different than what you expected but it is something I would actually be able to use in my classroom.

[Denise Dolechek]

I really did not like flickr, after seeing what many of you have done I am very impressed. I used pictures from a trip I took to Italy. I think using flickr and these pictures is a great way to incorporate them into the classroom. When I was taking the pictures I wondered how I could use them in the classroom, without simply doing a slide show of my trip, which can be rather boring. I have travelled considerably and this gives me an opportunity to bring my travels into the social studies classroom for use. I just need to work with flickr more to get comfortable.http://www.flickr.com/photos/10367577@N08/

[Denise Dolechek]

Sorry here is the url of the completed project,http://www.flickr.com/photos/10367577@N08/ disregard the one above.

[Veronica Deines]

You can view my flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vadeines/

I am pretty neutral about Flickr. Some things in this class made me go "oh cool!' and Flickr did not. I honestly can't see myself using something like Flickr in my own classroom, unless it is something students specifically ask for. This is the first time I had ever heard of Flickr and am still not very familiar with it.

If I were to use Flickr in my classroom it would be very briefly, and it would probably be to do something like the second grader Tess' weather recipe. It would be kind of fun to let students and myself upload photos for the whole class to see. I am not denying that photosharing is fun! Kids and I could get to know each other better by looking at photos of one another. It could be like a virtual start student thing too.

[Tana]

The link to my slide show it http://www.flickr.com/photos/10372342@N06/sets/72157600954292079/. I don't know why it's so different from everyone else's. I must have done something wrong. Hopefully I can find a way to fix it.

I really enjoyed working with Flickr. I know I will be using it my personal life but I'm a little bit iffy about using it in the classroom. I might use it to make instructional slide shows to show to my students that they can get online and work with. Also I might have my students create an account and let them use it for projects. Once you get the hang of it it's not hard to use. Most students are better on the computer then I am anyways, so I have no doubts that they could and would like this site.

[Kara Gerstenkorn]

http://flickr.com/photos/10554899@N07/sets/72157601025184636/

For a project I would ask the students to try to make a story connecting all of these pictures. It would be fun to see how they turn out!

[Alice Mercer]

This is an important consideration (that I forgot about until now) with posting student photos: http://classroom20.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A36470