For today's reading we learned a lot about the site Flickr. I have heard of flickr before, but I never really gave it much thought. I mostly just thought that it was a website where you could personally upload pictures and edit them. I didnt even know you could share them with others. In this chapter, I liked how the book gave directions on how to use flickr, which makes it more appealing and easy to use. If it didnt have these esasy directions, I would probably never use it because I would be worried that it would too hard to work. I loved how it also gave many different ways and examples that you could use this in a classroom. My favorite thing about flickr that I read about is probably the fact that you can annotate certain parts of a picture, so that you can direct a disccussion for people who are looking at your photos. This I think will be very helpful in a classroom, especially a younger aged classroom.
In my future teaching, I plan to use Flickr to facilitate different discussions about pictures, and to also allow my students to post pictures we take in and outside of the classroom. The one major concern I would possibly have about Flickr, is whether students' faces should be allowed in any of the pictures. Although I think it would be cool at times to have their faces, it might not be a good idea because of safety of the children, and because maybe their parents/gaurdian wouldn't want them to. But even then, I still believe Flickr will be a great asset to my classroom someday.
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