I found a very basic lesson from Korson at St. Mary’s.
https://www.msu.edu/~korsonm1/Images/year%202/Flickr%20Lesson%20plan.pdf
From this lesson plan, I noticed it began with the very basic information of starting an internet favorite photo search. If I were to use a lesson involving Flickr, I would start with this one just to see what photos my students are interested in. It gives me some background information to start from without knowing anything about them.
In the last class, EDE, our group (DesignPros) created a website using experiential learning for the Digital Photography 101 student which included lessons in iPhoto.
http://sites.google.com/site/fsodesignpros/
On the 4th day of the lesson, there is section which shows students how to share their photos. Posting to facebook, email, and mobileme gallery are the few areas shown to students. Flickr is also a sharing option on iPhoto, yet was not explained because I did not know how to use Flickr. On day 5 of the lesson, students are invited to Ning to share their photos. Flickr would also be a great option in which the instructor can set up a discussion and sharing session with students as well. I think it would be a great critiquing method for beginner digital photography students.
As for my own classroom, I would use Flickr in a few different ways. I want my students to take photos of their artwork, then post to a class group in Flickr for critique. The other lesson would be involving art as digital photography and having students research professional photographers and photographs. The students would then post a photo that belongs to a professional, titling and giving credit to the professional’s name of course. Then students will take actual digital photographs posting them next to a professional’s work to see how they compare after an extensive lesson in digital photography. It would be interesting to see how the students’ work compared to the professionals’.
I like the fact that you incorporated expanding our last class assignment using Flickr. I really liked the idea of students comparing their work to a professional artist's work There are exponential possibilities here!
ReplyDeleteI believe your students would get so much out of this and the lesson incorporates everything from language, communication, proper citations, aesthetics, art history, hands-on technology - just look at all the cross-curricular things being taught and all the connections you could make. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThe Flickr lesson is great to use in a English classroom. Using digital photography is a great tool to use in the research of famous literary authors, past and present.
ReplyDeleteStudents will research and locate authors and poets in their community, or state. They will interview and take pictures of the group. Students will create a photo gallery comparing and contrasting digital photography to past photography.
This is a great article about the usage of Flickr in the classroom.