Flickr in the Classroom

There are many ways that Flickr could be used in my classroom to encourage interaction along with learning. Here are a few ideas.

• When my literature students are reading novels, they are assigned to journal their thoughts on their readings on the computer. They could use Flickr to find pictures to illustrate these entries.
• To learn new vocabulary words, it always helps to have a visual. They could be assigned different words from the lesson and have to choose pictures from Flickr to help define the word.
• When we do round robin writing, each student begins a story and then passes it around for others to contribute. Using a wiki set up, the student could choose a picture from Flickr and begin his story around the picture which other students could then add to.
• The students are often searching for appropriate pictures to use in their other class projects. By using the Creative Commons area on Flickr the students would have ready access to usable pictures and easily be taught how to cite their image source.

Why did I choose this picture to post? In 3 weeks, I hope to be up in the mountains of Colorado seeing a scene just like that one! Mindy

Image Reference: Sheltgen, Michael. (2006, August 26). Wildflowers in Meadow. Sheltgen’s photostream. Retrieved July 10, 2007, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/mscheltgen/225817708/.