Each chapter seems to require more innovations to incorporate new technologies into the classroom. Chapter 7 offers something for every classroom such as: differentiation, assessment and creativity. This chapter gives insights on how to bring digital natives and digital immigrants together, using photos that are teacher or student generated, or even those located from an online source. Possible ideas include: current events (photos from Flickr), photo field trips (1st grade trip to the zoo) and photo tours of class presentations (6th grade Nazi reports).
Classrooms can annotate those photos as part of research projects, extended activities, and even as assessments. Having the photos on Flickr would allow others to respond to the annotated photos and generate comments from parents and others that would open conversations about your classroom activities.
Your assignment is to sign-up to Flickr, and upload or take a photo and annotate the photo. You may use the example from page 104 in your book or any other creative idea.
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Another thing to try is called Zamzar - www.zamzar.com - Doug Cutt's showed it to me when I saw videos he and Samantha had put in her Power Point. Basically you just have to put a video email address into a section of Zamzar (we used youtube)and then it sends something to your email address. Sandy helped me get it from point A-Z, but I think I could help you figure it out. This could also help if you just found a video you wanted to keep in a file for future use - just another bright idea from your truly! :)
I subscribed to flickr before spring break. It was a bit frustrating at first because I was using a computer in the lab and couldn't figure out how to click on specific pictures to put in little comments.
You have to be on your own computer to have access to your pictures on your computer.
After I went back to my classroom and worked on my own computer with my own pictures it was a lot easier, (with the help of Jess!)
It was pretty neat to just be able to go into a picture and click on different things, then type in a comment about it. Then when someone else goes and looks at the picture they can click on the specific things and see the comments. It's almost like a computer game.
Parents and students could use this by looking at different pictures and clicking on specific things to find out more information.
Pretty cool!
I was brainstorming about some ways to use Flickr with Jack the other day and we were talking about our World War II projects - for example I could use it to point out specifics students need to include. I additionally thought it could be used to point out specific leaders in pictures: Hitler, Stalin, Eisenhower, etc. I can see where this could be useful and it's something we don't need "speakers" for - since not everyone had those.
I have been on Flickr for a month and have even subscribed to some Iowa Groups. I'm excited to take pictures now and find ways to share them or use them in some curriculum units. I am currently finding pictures for a weather unit- and what you find is amazing.
Nicky, I can see how using notes in the downloaded pictures in your everyday curriculum would be useful for students to classify. Maria and I were talking about having pictures that go with spelling lists and using them to help build vocabulary.
That was slick! I've had friends send me flickr photo albums with their links that they update regularly...now I know how they accomplished it! Victor's youth group leader at church has also used this to share pics of fun events. He just sends the link to parents so I think only parents can view (I'll check into that).
I also tried uploading a 2 minute video. But after it was in my Photostream, I couldn't get the Adobe Flash player to download to view the video?
We looked at this on a district PD day last year. Now I can see more possibilities other than just using it to retrieve photos.
Sorry, I am behind. I signed up for Flickr and uploaded some pictures. Julie found another site called shutterfly.com and is similar to Flickr, but you can use the site to make scrape books or cards. It is free. I can see advantages of saving photos to the web so they can not be lost. I did not try the annotations.
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