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| Going to school at APSU |
Click on the hyperlink "Going to school at APSU" to see my Flickr slideshow.
Make sure in the upper left corner under "options" you have the box checked for "Always show title."
Or here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brown_squirrel/
and click on the "Going to School at APSU" set and the slideshow.
Make sure in the upper left corner under "options" you have the box checked for "Always show title."
Or here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brown_squirrel/
and click on the "Going to School at APSU" set and the slideshow.
Today for thing #7 I opted for the "OPTION TWO (the more FUN option!)"
On my way to school today I stopped along the way to take pictures. What I thought would take a couple of hours I ended up playing around with most of the day. This Flickr thing gets kind of addicting and I quickly lost track of time. I had added a slideshow gadget on my blog and wanted to show my new slideshow for Flickr at the side of my blog page using my gadget but spent all afternoon and into the evening trying to figure out how to do this. I found a site that showed me how, got my slideshow to show up at the side of my blog page but have been unable to find the website I was on to hyperlink it into this blog (even with Firefox "Show All History").
I use a lot of photos in the classroom with PowerPoint and also use images to teach vocabulary. Here is a slideshare of a vocabulary lesson I did while reading a story entitled "At the Beach" where I taught vocabulary by viewing images I found on "Google Images" (which I still prefer for it ease of search and quantity of images). I love slide #4, can you see the airplane in the middle left picture? Flickr gives me another image resource. Another use for images is for writing prompts. I've found images of children during slavery and had students write about their feelings after viewing the pictures. Also in student research I normally have students include at least one image they have found to illustrate their topic. With all of these Flickr could be a great resource. As I was compiling my own Flickr project I thought this would be an engaging way to have students summarize a project by taking photos and creating a Flickr set. Student would capture their project during different stages with digital photographs and then write titles and descriptions to describe their project and create a Flickr set. Then a website could be created like I did at the top of this blog (the website under the words "Or Here.") to share with parents. As with anything the teacher would have to screen the Flickr project before the webpage went public for appropriateness, but it would be a great way to share with parents. I like the Flickr site, and see value in it for the classroom, but for me personally, I don't Twitter, or have a Facebook account. I just prefer to email pictures or send a CD with photos to family and keep my photos and images off the World Wide Web.
I use a lot of photos in the classroom with PowerPoint and also use images to teach vocabulary. Here is a slideshare of a vocabulary lesson I did while reading a story entitled "At the Beach" where I taught vocabulary by viewing images I found on "Google Images" (which I still prefer for it ease of search and quantity of images). I love slide #4, can you see the airplane in the middle left picture? Flickr gives me another image resource. Another use for images is for writing prompts. I've found images of children during slavery and had students write about their feelings after viewing the pictures. Also in student research I normally have students include at least one image they have found to illustrate their topic. With all of these Flickr could be a great resource. As I was compiling my own Flickr project I thought this would be an engaging way to have students summarize a project by taking photos and creating a Flickr set. Student would capture their project during different stages with digital photographs and then write titles and descriptions to describe their project and create a Flickr set. Then a website could be created like I did at the top of this blog (the website under the words "Or Here.") to share with parents. As with anything the teacher would have to screen the Flickr project before the webpage went public for appropriateness, but it would be a great way to share with parents. I like the Flickr site, and see value in it for the classroom, but for me personally, I don't Twitter, or have a Facebook account. I just prefer to email pictures or send a CD with photos to family and keep my photos and images off the World Wide Web.
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