At first I had a few issues creating a Flickr account; however, once that issue was sorted I had a great play around and explored all the amazing resources that Flickr had to offer. I found Flickr to be very similar to that of searching ‘Google Images’. I was interested in seeing if people in Rockhampton (or people that had a particular interest in Rockhampton) used Flickr. I was delighted to see some beautiful images of the area, places and people in Rockhampton being posted on Flickr.
The following is my favourite image from Flickr of Rockhampton. It is the wonderful Customs House.
At first I thought I would allow the students in my classroom to use Flickr when completing assignments (practically if they had to create a PowerPoint presentation, the quality of some of these images could really enrich the quality of their assignments). However, I was curious to know how safe students would be when using Flickr (I would not like to be teaching a lesson where my students could readily access pornography and other sexual images). Through searching a few ‘key words’ I discovered that Flickr was tasteful in their approach, however some images left little to the imagination and posed many different connotations. I personally would be reluctant to allow my students to use Flickr in the classroom to complete assignments; however I would encourage them to use images for their assignments when assessment is completed at home. Moreover, Flickr could be used as a tool for sharing images that were taken in the classroom by students for an assessment item or for sharing images from an excursion.
Picnik is another imaging tool that could be implemented into the classroom. Picnik is an easy to use photo editing tool. I found Picnik very simplistic and self explanatory. Picnik is very similar to the Microsoft imaging tool I already currently use. I would use Picnik in the classroom to edit photos that were taken on school excursions and to highlight the main features of an image. Below is the Customs House photo I found on Flickr. I have edited this image using Picnik. As you can see the before and after photos are very different from one another.
Customs House after being edited using Picnik.
Chloe
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