GeoBlog » geography http://rothl.edublogs.org Learning about the world on the World Wide Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:41:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Flickr Possibilities http://rothl.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/flickr-possibilities/ http://rothl.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/flickr-possibilities/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:43:04 +0000 rothl http://rothl.edublogs.org/?p=15 Flickr has many applications in a geography classroom.  I could take students on virtual field trips by creating slideshows of pictures from places we are studying.  I could ask students to create the virtual field trips.  I could use a picture as a discussion prompt.  We’re about to study Darfur.  I could find a picture of a burned village and ask students to comment on it.  I could also ask students to take pictures to represent topics we are studying, have them upload them to Flickr, and then have them sent to my website.  I’d definitely like to try using the Geoblogger feature of Flickr in my classroom.

I just used this picture on my Enough Club! blog to show how the $5000 we are trying to raise will be spent in Sierra Leone.

Image Citation:  Dominik Bartenstei. (2008, January 16).  Flickr.  Dominik Bartenstei N’s Photostream.  Retrieved October 23, 2008, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartenstein/2198137158/.

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