Photo Sharing
Jul 7th, 2008 by Mr. Higgins
This blog entry is for TEC-950: Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom
Summarize your experience exploring the photo-sharing sites on your Web 2.0 Technology Blog. Upload the photo that you selected and publish your thoughts on using Flickr or one of the other photo sites in the classroom.
I chose the photo seen below about commitment. I feel that is does a great job of showing how commitment is not something tangible, it is an attitude and dealing with physical or emotional movement. Flickr is one of the great websites on the planet because of its ease of use.
Highlight at least one example of how you might use photo-sharing in your classroom to promote visual literacy and how this lesson/activity will meet one or more of the NETS-S.
The possibilities are endless. Imagine in a mathematics classroom where shapes are hanging on the wall. Now imagine a virtual wall of images found on Flickr which match up with those shapes. I have had students find real world images and describe what mathematics has to do with them.
This blog is going to bat for Web 2.0. My name is Chris Higgins and I am a high school mathematics and computer science teacher at Norwalk High School in Ohio. I am a lifetime learner, Web 2.0 advocate, blogger, tennis coach, and a huge sports fan. Go Browns! Go Cavs! Go Tribe!
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