Sunday, February 26, 2012

Thing #7 (Crisp Apple Streudels)


The photos I choose for this assignment are from my youngest son’s 2nd birthday. Philip turned two back in January and I decided to have a craft time for the kids. After everyone was done I found him back at the table enjoying himself. Isn’t he adorable? He loves to draw with anything that writes. In fact I have a few “treasure maps” on the wall as I write this. These pictures are an example of what I hope to continue to instill in my children. 

        

I have never used Flickr before. I usually upload my pictures to Facebook where I can share them or to a site where I can have them printed. Getting started was easy and uploading wasn’t hard either. I did however find some things a little confusing. I didn’t know what the tags or groups were. There are so many features that I’m still searching around to see what all there is available. I like the sharing aspect but I would like to keep everything private. I don’t mind too much out there public if I put it there, but I don’t think it is a good idea to put other people’s children out in the public view if they have not consented to it. I can see using the site to create groups for each year and have all the pictures of the classroom on Flickr. If I am able to keep each group private and have only certain people view them that would be even more ideal. If I was teaching an older class I could use this site as an assignment since there are different groups to be created each child could have their own page within the classroom’s page or, if each child could have an account (with parent’ permission) and tag or add to classroom’s group just as we did with this assignment. 

Wow, there are a lot of “ifs” in this post. Maybe with additional clarity and familiarity using the site I will be able to have a clearer picture on how to use it in my classroom.

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