I LOVE photography and often browse through the photos on Flickr looking for anything interesting or beautiful. I just discovered picnik.com which is a really cool photo editing site that I used to add text and some effects to my wedding photos. It is absolutely addictive and it has made me love taking new pictures even more because there are so many fun things I can do with them once they're updated. I have hundreds of pictures on my Facebook and enjoy posting new photos and commenting on friends pictures as well. Oddly enough I didn't sign up for my own Flickr account until now. I was really excited to see how easy it was since I already have a Yahoo ID. I really hate the long registration forms that some websites make you fill out these days. Once I became a member I uploaded some pictures of my 11 week old Boston Terrier puppy, Maude, that I've taken over the past week. Too adorable! Once I uploaded them I tagged some "apsu23things" and then found the apsu23things group, added myself, and added my photos to the group. I loved looking through the other student's pictures and seeing lots of gorgeous doggies, babies, landscapes, and just things around the house. It's so wonderful that photography is accessible to everyone now. This activity is making me want a new camera...bad! My birthday is coming up so maybe I should buy myself a new camera as a present. I'll just tell my deployed husband that that's what he's getting me. haha.
...Anyhoo...
Back to the questions at hand... I think I will absolutely continue to use Flickr for personal photos. It is very user friendly and actually links to picnik.com (the editing site I was talking about above). I have very little trepidation about posting pictures in a public place, although of course I always use a very strong dose of common sense when deciding which pictures to share. I wouldn't post anything that identified anyone who didn't want to be identified in a public photo forum; I wouldn't post a picture that clearly identified where I lived or what car I drive or any personal details that a wackadoo could use to track me down. I would definitely use Flickr for the classroom much in the way Dr. Wall is using it for this course. I would create a group on Flickr for students to upload their photos to. I might create an assignment where students went on a history scavenger hunt and had to take pictures of the items or landmarks they found. I could have my students search the internet for photos to describe a concept or a famous quotation and then post their findings. I was surprised at how many ideas like that I was able to generate in a short time with Flickr because it's not a site that has overt education applications. This was the most fun of the 23 things for me so far. I think that my high school students would be really excited to use Flickr for a class project
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