Photo sharing is one piece of instructional media that may be used for learning. I could easily see myself using this in my Theater and English classes and even for the yearbook. In my Theater and English classes, I would have the students find a period piece play and as part of their final project, they would need to share pictures of some of the past productions to show the costumes of the “period” with the class. As for the yearbook; photo sharing would be an easy way to share pictures when you may not be in the same place and need to work on different parts simultaneously.
One concern that I have with photo sharing, is that students may share inappropriate photos or photos that other students may not want them to share (grade school photos; if they are high schoolers etc.). But I think that this should be talked about prior to the assignment and that some guidelines should be instituted.
When I think about guidelines, it really astonished me to “see” how similar the process the authors of Trends & Issues use and the process that I use to develop educational lesson plans are. They analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate and so do I. I am always analyzing to see not only what my students are lacking, but analyzing the tools that I can use to assist them. I design and develop a program that I think will work to improve their knowledge and performance; then implement it. Finally, I come up with a way to evaluate the program to see what data I am given on performance outcomes etc. and if the design needs to be/ or can be modified to reach the goal (if it was not reached).
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I do share the same concern as you with students viewing inappropiate photos. There would have to be parental permission and strict guidelines to follow through with using this tool. I agree with you that photo sharing would be fun for theater and yearbook!
Darcy
Sheena,
Nice ideas for a good use of photo sharing. Yearbook and theater would be an excellent use. I do not teach in those areas, but I can see the value of these tools there.
When I read your comments about chapter 2, I felt we shared some of the same thoughts. Anyone that teaches, and gives a darn about student success, follows a design path similar to the one outlined in the book. Determining what students need, designing projects to fulfill those need, evaluating the success of your endeavors and making necessary adjustments, is in my opinion, what separates the good teachers from the not so good.
Nice job,
Jeff
Yes! Now year book is someplace I can think of that would be useful to use flickr for. All the students could make comments or even give concent for use of photos on flickr! great idea!
Katherine
Darcy,
Inappropriate use of photo sharing sights is a concern of mine as well. It would be very easy to have a website or program that would allow all pictures to pass through an administrator. I would like to see many of "technologies" be tailored for education.
Also, I find it interesting that all of the EDT text books that I've read so far give the impression that they have developed these novel ideas about designing curriculum. These are very similar processes that are used by other fields of creation, and are used by teachers already.
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