Thing 8

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Using Flicker Mashups students can feel a part of a larger community and explore their own creativity while finding value in others in their creativity.  With Mapr, students can post pictures of sites from field trips and outdoor exploration, while viewing pictures from various locations to help them learn various elements within a particular region.  They can also use Big Huge Labs and Mosaic Maker to share photos that pertain to subject matter during group or individual presentation as a means to enhance learning. They can also use these tools for the sake of artistic expression.   For instance students can show pictures of various insects of they are doing a presentation on insects.   Students can also make a mosaic that spells out Happy Holidays using pictures of individual letters.  Since each of these mashups have fun things to offer, each can be offered to students as a reinforcement.

  I think it’s a great idea to share photos that would be of interest to others; what is shared should be limited to prevent schemes by people being established to bring destruction in their life.  Although I like the settings that Flicker offers, allowing people to choose who can see specific photos, I do not believe have complete confidence that we have complete control over the content that gets posted.  Therefore, as a suggestion people should not post pictures of events along with its details until they are no longer in that event.  But over all I like what Flicker allows us to do, as for many of us will never get to experience the life in a foreign country, some not even another state. It is through these photos shared that we live vicariously.