Thing #11

Flickr was really interesting. I have received numerous emails from friends, sending me pictures of their children through Flickr. I never considered all of the multiple educational applications (beyond help with slide shows, anyway) for Flickr. Of all of the educational ideas listed by David Jakes, I was most intrigued by using Flickr images to stimulate creative writing and illustrate poetry. I also thought that using it with Google Earth to teach Geography sounded fun. I also enjoyed the idea put forth by Teacher Dude to teach vocabulary differences using images from Flickr; however, I thought it might prove fairly time-consuming overall to find images to represent certain vocabulary, unless the person posting the picture had decided to tag it with that descriptor.

I did a search in the CC Flicker database for pictures of elephants. I figured I'd better learn as much as I can about them, since my three year old has told me that he is going to be an elephant when he grows up. The picture from doug88888 (above) was interesting. I will create an elephant slide show in my wikispace later. I'm sure my son will enjoy it.