Thing 7

Posting pictures to my Flikr account

The only annoying thing about Flikr was having to make another account. Oh well, such is life in the world of technology.

I found uploading pictures very easy! Now I will have to make time and upload all of my pictures. I know that my husband has started using it for work also. Check out the pictures of downtown Portland, MI.

The important question, how can I use this in my classroom? Well I think it would be easier to use it in science rather than math. Getting one idea from the video that showed us how to upload photos is to have students research scientists and put some descriptions about them including what they have contributed to the scientific community. They could also find pictures of examples of things each scientist studied. For example, say they were researching Galileo, they could include pictures of the tools he used, and pictures of different planets, and the sun.

I guess one use in math would be to have students take pictures of different objects in the "real world" that have particular geometric shapes. This would work great when studying quadrilaterals. They could then tag them with each of the specific shape it is in the quadrilateral hierarchy (square, rhombus, trapezoid...).

I would agree with what I saw some other people comment about. Students would need to be taught about copyright issues and what can be used and what cannot be used. I think it would also be important to talk about what are appropriate pictures to post on a site for the world to see. Even if you mark a picture private, and you let one of your friends see it, they could download it and share it with the world somewhere else.

I think it would be important to remember when sharing photos once you post it, it will ALWAYS be out there. Even if you delete it.