Flickr

Daiimah Coleman Web Tool 2.0

Flickr Name: Flickr

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__General Information__

Flicker is a website where you can share your photos, videos, and your photography skills with as many people as you choose. You can also do group photo projects (cards, frames, photo DVDs, calendars, prints, posters, collages, canvases) and collaborate with others to organizer photos for projects and things of that nature. You can categorize your photos, place them in different albums while keeping them safe on the flickr website. There is also a place where you can blog with family and friends on the website. Photographers can create maps and showcase the locations where photographs were taken. Last, you can explore different type of photos and topics.

__Help Sources, Tutorials, Videos__

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__Challenges__

The most serious challenges users might face when they become members of the website is privacy issues. On rare instances someone might post suspicious photographs, links or comments under your account, which you are, suppose to report immediately. You may also get false messages for private photo packages or for flickr postcards which are false and should not be clicked or followed. Last, third party users might be able to access some of your photos and information.

__Educational Objectives and Curriculum Area__

Curriculum Area: Language Arts, Art, Literacy, Math, Social Studies

Educational Objectives: Promotes Teamwork and collaboration Provide a framework for creating learning experiences for the more technology savvy learners Be able to incorporate learning and fun all into one Student participation and collaboration

__Lesson Plan__

Each student will create a poster on there favorite country by making a collage from the Create /Make Something category on flickr.

Before they start the project I will model to the students on how to use flickr

Each student who does not have a digital camera will have to purchase a disposable one to use for the project. Each student will take pictures of things they find and remind them about the country they are researching. They will then each create a flickr account and upload their photos. They will then put in the name of their countries in the search box and find all the photos that are on flickr. They will then use there personal photos and the ones from flicker and make a photo collage about their country.

__Student Reaction__

This project got mixed results. My high achieving students and visual learners got very much involved with the project as the days progressed. Some of lower achieving students seemed disinterested so I assigned them to draw out pictures about their countries to add to the group project. This is a great tool for research.