Module 4

Hmmmm Flikr....I became familiar with this online tool about 5 years ago when I started Flying Trapeze. A friend that I made there, from England, gave me a website and said "go look at my photos". So, whenever we wanted to see photos of ourselves flying, we'd just jump online! It was cool, because anyone could look at them and prospective employers could check us out - I was actually casted for a "Levi's" advertisment and a QANTAS one because of Flikr!

But now that I am such an avid FaceBook user and I swear by my Mac Book, I now simply edit my photos in iPhoto and upload shots onto my profile. I think it will probably be difficult for me to go back, now that I find this way so easy - but I can definitely see how using Flikr will be a great tool in the classroom!

The main reason why I would stay with FaceBook for myself and Flikr for the kids, is the simple fact of privacy. I definitely don't want my students asking to "be my friend".

Unfortunately nowadays we can't be too careful when it comes to online predators. Obviously, a lot of direction from the teacher would be needed in order to ensure that students are only uploading photos necessary to the work they may be undergoing in class.

Although I haven't been as impressed by this module as I have been by the introduction of Google Docs, I definitely want to give it a go! Now that my students have started adding their research to our Science Wiki, my next step is getting them to upload and edit photos of their work through Flikr!

By the way, this is what I do when I'm not runnning after kids!