Flickr, I think, is a good example of an easy and fun technology that you can use in the classroom to get your students involved outside of the classroom. This technology will help with teaching because you can post pictures and create slideshows of things that you did in the classroom. I used Flickr in high school during football because a teammate’s parent posted pictures of the team on Flickr as a kind of way to look at the game and see you playing. A teacher can use this to help in learning by putting picture on their Flickr account of things that they want the students to learn. Maybe posting pictures or video on Flickr prior to class can give a little prelude to what you are going to be teaching your students that day. This seems like a very simple and easy technology to use. I think that it can engage the visual learners the best because the main think Flickr does is pictures and videos.
As a future teacher I am going to want to help my students get interested by showing them pictures and help them get ideas of class visually. It is also a great way to help students remember what they did in class. If you could take pictures throughout class it would be a good way to remember what happened. Also, if I am running a lab that has to grow or change during the week while the students are gone, I could take pictures and put them on my Flickr account so that students can stay involved and see their experiment develop. This technology just shows that students like to learn visually because humans are visual learners. I think this technology can help me with engaging students before and after the lesson in a quick and easy way. In the future a good idea would be to have the students create their own slideshow like we did in class so they can get to know their other students and they can be fun to watch.
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