Module 4

Flickr is an interesting way to share photographs. As with most of what I have learned, there are opportunities to extend accessibility to anywhere in the world as users can exchange information, or in this case, photographs. I think it is popular with Generation Y who like to endlessly photograph and publish themselves in the hope that that somebody will notice them or their silly little antics they were performing while they self-photographed (usually with appalling technique).

For the rest of us there seems to be efficiency in using Flickr to communicate. If a picture tells a thousand words, and Flickr can store hundreds of pictures, then this may just facilitate better communication between tech-heads, which is what they really need.

In the classroom, most students are visual learners and think this means they only use mind maps. They are more likely to become engaged by critiquing a photograph in the way that Jamie McKenzie suggests in order to elicit higher order thinking. The question remains as to whether a personalised digital footprint left by users could ever be used unethically? The students, I suppose, will answer this one for us in due course.

Berrick

Harold

This is Berrick. He travels extensively overseas and likes to let his friend Harold know about the places he has visited. Berrick uses Flickr to store all his photographs, and has given Harold permission to look at them. Harold uses the best of these photographs in his job as a travel writer which is good because Harold has polio and can’t travel. It just goes to show that Flickr can be used for more than just entertainment. It can nurture imagination and opportunities. Just what our students need!!