Think of ways you may be able to use Flickr in the classroom or in your work and share your ideas. What issues might you face?
What a blast! Flickr is fun and helpful in organizing my personal pictures! But, once again, I can forsee hours and hours spent uploading and arranging and organizing my photos. I think it may be a project best left for summer vacation! In the classroom, I like the idea of using the tags to find pictures for a virtual tour of the Spanish speaking areas, cities, and/or countries being studied by my students. It could also be used to call up photos of items for illustrating vocabulary words. I have really enjoyed my time exploring this aspect of the "23 things" and plan to spend more time on this site in the future.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Thing 5
Create a post on your blog about one of the photos you downloaded. Why did you choose a particular photo? What is it about the photo that you found interesting? Be sure to include the image in your post. Use Blogger's photo upload feature to do this.
The Flickr site was lots of fun to explore! I was able to find and download a photo in the Creative Commons area without a problem. Whether or not I'll be able to put it into my blog remains to be seen. I think that showing photos in the classroom on the SMART board and having students describe, observe, or comment orally in Spanish or using the photos as the basis for a written assignment has definite possibilities. I'm looking forward to "Thing 6" to have the opportunity to actually upload photos to Flickr. The organization modes seem wonderful to me, and I now realize that not having my digital photos backed up somewhere is tempting the fates. Hopefully a familiarity with this website will be beneficial both personally and professionally.
The Flickr site was lots of fun to explore! I was able to find and download a photo in the Creative Commons area without a problem. Whether or not I'll be able to put it into my blog remains to be seen. I think that showing photos in the classroom on the SMART board and having students describe, observe, or comment orally in Spanish or using the photos as the basis for a written assignment has definite possibilities. I'm looking forward to "Thing 6" to have the opportunity to actually upload photos to Flickr. The organization modes seem wonderful to me, and I now realize that not having my digital photos backed up somewhere is tempting the fates. Hopefully a familiarity with this website will be beneficial both personally and professionally.
Thing 4
What service did you choose? Why? What are some of the items you included on your custom homepage? What kind of widgets or links could you add to your homepage that would enhance instruction?
It has been some time since I have been able to find sufficient time to get back to this blogging thing. After some gracious help from JJ I was able to better grasp the scope of this task. I think I had confused it with actually making a website, not just personalizing a home page. Consequently the enormity of the task was reduced from a mountain to a molehill and I am now able to go forward at a snail's pace once again! I tried to use Netvibes, but found it difficult to use due to my ineptitude. I ended up using my Yahoo homepage which was extremely easy to manipulate although probably not too sophisticated. I added the weather, movie reviews, and news. I also began to add my thousand and one bookmarks to the page. I do see the usefulness of being able to access both my personal and professional bookmarks in one place from anywhere. Thanks for your patience, Joan. I'll see you at Thing 5!
It has been some time since I have been able to find sufficient time to get back to this blogging thing. After some gracious help from JJ I was able to better grasp the scope of this task. I think I had confused it with actually making a website, not just personalizing a home page. Consequently the enormity of the task was reduced from a mountain to a molehill and I am now able to go forward at a snail's pace once again! I tried to use Netvibes, but found it difficult to use due to my ineptitude. I ended up using my Yahoo homepage which was extremely easy to manipulate although probably not too sophisticated. I added the weather, movie reviews, and news. I also began to add my thousand and one bookmarks to the page. I do see the usefulness of being able to access both my personal and professional bookmarks in one place from anywhere. Thanks for your patience, Joan. I'll see you at Thing 5!
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