BP10_2009122_PeerReviewFranklin

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BP_6_2009112_Flickr

Author: Travis Franklin // Category:

I had never really used Flickr before joining this class, but it is a pretty cool tool that has great potential for education. The lesson idea I found came from the Illinois Education and Technology Conference. They brought up the idea of using Flickr as a way to create a virtual field trip for students to experience another location. I think this would be a great idea because with the budget cuts happening in schools right now, field trips are some of the first things to go. I know in my district it was the very first thing they cut and now only three field trips happen each year in my school leaving most kids in our building out of the experience.

You would set up your lesson by either taking pictures, uploading or tagging pictures that have to do with your topic and creating a set of pictures to organize them all in one place. After doing this, you would allow the students to go on and search through the pictures you have added and possibly comment on them. You could do this after a unit and have them comment on the picture what exactly it is a picture of.

For example, I would definitely use this after my unit on ancient Greece and have the kids log in to my set to view the pictures. I would number each picture and give them either a scavenger hunt sheet where they had to plug in the number of each item for their answers or have them go through the pictures in order and write down which structure is represented by each picture. This would be a great way to differentiate the assessment based on which student is doing it.