Twitter Flickr Learning

January 11, 2008 by teachingsagittarian

Have I mentioned that I love my twitter network? A few days ago a joint post from Chris Betcher & Sue Waters was written about picassa vrs flickr born out of tweets on twitter. I’d already mentioned in a previous post about using flickr more in the classroom this year, so flickr was already on my mind.

This morning on twitter started by @Riptide_Furse …………………

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………….. and ended in a skype call between Fred and myself where he shared what Flickr tools he presented to his teachers at the workshop and their various ways of being used.

Here are just some of the things Fred so generously shared with me ………

1. fd’s Flickr Toys

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This site is full of great tools to use with flickr photos. You don’t need to sign up (athough you can if you’d like) and within a few minutes you can create the most professional looking motivational poster. Here’s my 2 minute effort:

Suggestions for use in the classroom:

Have students take a photo that represents school motto
Use Jigsaw / Mosaic Maker with photos from around the school/community representing maths concepts (ie Shapes, angles etc)
Use Warholizer for Start of Year Activity with student photos
Spice up class blog with Cartooniser, Framer, Billboard, Slideshow, Writer (list is almost endless possibilities with these gadgets!)

2. Befuddlr

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Use in the classroom?
We talked this over for a bit and decided that you could have some major conversations about which photos would be easy or hard to un-bedfuddlr.

What would make a picture harder to organise back to its original state?
Fun problem solving activity to do for fast finishers
An activity on a rainy day
A taskboard activity

3. Dumpr.net

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You don’t need to sign up (but you can if you’d like) and within 2 minutes I managed to create this …………
A museum-photo of our Class Mascot Kawekakea meeting Ewan McIntosh at ULearn07 earlier this year.

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Most of the tools in Dumpr.net are similar to fd’s flickr toys but there are a couple of different ones. Don’t mix up the url with Dumpr.com like I did -

Use in the classroom?

Use Photo in Art Museum, Jigsaw, Make photos look old, Stone Mosaic, for Presentations, blog posts etc
Use Photo to Sketch, Alien Vision for creating online avatars, profile photos etc
Use Photo inside a photo for problem solving puzzles

4. Other Possibilities for the Classroom

If you’re looking for ways to work REAL LIFE editing into writing
What’s wrong with these pictures Apostrophes Quote abuse
Spell with Flickr
Animated GIFs with Flickr

Got heaps of time on your hands? You could check out this long, long, long list of The Great Flickr Tools Collection!

And if that wasn’t enough, those great folks from Commoncraft have released this:

Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

So, what are your favourite things to do with flickr?

Posted in flickr, resources | Tagged , befuddlr, bighugelabs, Chris Betcher, commoncraft, Dumpr.net, fd's Flickr Toys, flickr, Riptide_Furse, Sue Waters, twitter | 11 Comments

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11 Responses to “Twitter Flickr Learning”

on 11 Jan 2008 at 6:14 pm1 Sue Waters

While I started with fd’s Flickr toys my favourite application is now Dumpr - I just like it better. But what I now like the best is subscribing to the RSS photo feed from Flickr of my contacts - it makes me feel that I am with them and what they are up to. Which is really cool - so far this week seen a house moved, visited Edinburgh, somewhere in Asia…. I definitely need to comment more on their Flickr photos. I also like using all the image generator websites they are so cool - your students would like them.
on 11 Jan 2008 at 9:45 pm2 Jo McLeay

This is really useful Chrissy. Enjoyed reading it
on 11 Jan 2008 at 9:54 pm3 Amanda

This is great thanks heaps Chrissy, as per usual so helpful!
I’ve got my fave flickr tools up on my blog
on 12 Jan 2008 at 12:08 am4 Marie Coleman

Nice compilation of flickr uses! Unfortunately, we struggle to access flickr for students, but not only will this post give me more ammunition for fighting the battle again, it gave me some ideas for the limited use we do have! Many thanks…and yes, what would we do without the twitter network! I can’t remember how I functioned pre-twitter…
on 12 Jan 2008 at 1:37 am5 Silvia

Thank you so much for writing this post. Very useful resources to use with Flickr in the classroom. I will post the link for all of our teachers.
I am using a Flickr tag on my del.icio.us account for any sites I find that will allow mashup with Flickr.

http://del.icio.us/langwitches/flickr
One particular link I find useful is Splashr.com I have used in in several blogs to showcase a particular set or tagged photos from my Flickr account.

You have inspired me to digg through all my links and write a post on Langwitches Blog soon.
on 12 Jan 2008 at 1:03 pm6 Riptide Furse

Wow Chrissy you really extended everything. Now I need to pull the teachers back and show them your post. Seeing you use a photo of Ewan McIntosh reminded me of when he was on WOW2.0. He said he used Flickr as a digital storytelling tool using the notes. You can make a “Choose your Own Adventure” story using the notes and making links to other pictures.

Great talking with you and I look forward to speaking with you more in the future!
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on 12 Jan 2008 at 3:46 pm8 Ann O

These are some great tools. I’ve bookmarked this blog entry in my delicious account. I always wondered where those posters came from on other blogs.
on 13 Jan 2008 at 8:34 am9 Allanahk

New Years Resolution- to get out of my aggregator more and let people know how much I appreciate their work.

Thanks Chrissy.

Unfortunately Flickr is now blocked at school but after a bit of heartfelt negotiation they have now unblocked ONE user- me!

At least the kids can now see the photos we have been looking at for the last couple of years!
on 13 Jan 2008 at 1:54 pm10 Paul Hamilton

This is a fabulous list, with great examples and suggestions of what to do with the tools! Thanks. –Paul
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