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Flickr & Images4Education Online Session

As we’re in full steam preparing for one more exciting free online session for educators all over the globe through the Electronic Village Online, I was just following my thwirls when I saw Nik Peachey ’s tip of http://flickriver.com

Well, I thought I’d better give it a try as it was totally related to what I was doing, planning our Weekly tasks in our images4education session, and, more specifically, working on tasks for Flickr.
So, here’s the result:
View most interesting 'uniqueness' photos on Flickriver
I chose the tag Uniqueness, but it could be any, as well as a combination of a username and its tag. I think Flickriver will be useful when our group is in action and we could decide for a unique tag, participants upload a photo and we play around with Flickriver to see where it takes us in terms of images.
I could even imagine doing the following activity with students. They enter a tag they want to, five random photos will be displayed and they could have the photos as a springboard to a very creative story! How cool is that? Well, teachers, teachers, teachers…Always finding a pedagogical twist to social media!
PS: the funny thing? I was checking Nik’s link to his blog and realized he, in fact, wrote about Flickriver. So, enjoy two blog posts on the same topics by two educators. You might find something useful!
Want to find more useful resources to use images in the classroom? Check our Diigo group which we’re using to collect the resources for our Images4Education session in January 2009.
Group EVO2009-Images Bookmarks

Picwing – Collaborating on a Slideshow

I just tested Picwing to make a photo album.
Interesting tool for collaboration. Once you start the album, others can join you and send photos to it via email. For example, I created this album with Brasilia photos. If others have photos of Brasilia to share, they can just attach their photos in an email post and send them to  brasilia at picwing.com . The photos will be posted to the album.
Possibilities: imagine a collaborative effort in a class on a specific theme? You can start the album and have students add photos to it. If they have a mobile with email, they can send it straight from their mobiles. How fun would it be to have something like that with photos of the “First Day of class”?



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