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Flickr is a photo sharing website. I first heard about it when a friend wanted me to see some of the photographs she had taken. With her link, I was able to see her photographs but I never bothered to go beyond that. With my recent experience on Flickr, I realized that Flickr is not only about photographs. It has a collection of all types of digital images including videos and digital paintings and drawings.
I tried my hands on theme-based searches and I must say that I found images for every search I made. I searched for “Perspective”, “Perspective Drawing”, “Painting”, “Scale” and “Proportion”. Perspective Drawing and “Perspective Drawing” (in quotes) did not yield the same results. “Perspective Drawing” was more narrowed. The advanced search option helped me choose between either photos or videos or both. The licenses on some of the images were such that I had permission to use them in number of ways (Creative Commons) whereas others were there only for viewing because of copyright.
Visitors to the website could both download and upload images. The uploaded images carried tags that made them easy to search and viewed. Flickr gives members the option to create groups within which only the members can view certain images they upload.
I see many uses of Flickr’s features in my professional practice as a teacher:
· As the uploaded images include those of photographed artworks, Flickr provides the opportunity to introduce to students artifacts of some foreign cultures as well as the various styles of painting.
· With images, concepts can easily be explained.
· Students can also use some of the images (appropriately acquired) as references to produce their own works of art.
· A class can form a group on Flickr and discuss about images members have uploaded during a project.
· Flickr also provides students the opportunity to exhibit their works of art for public view.
· Images can be uploaded and kept private for later use.
Will Richardson in his "Blogs Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" (2010) outlines other uses of Flickr as a learning tool (pp. 103-107).
Tagging was what made it possible for me to get the result when I searched for the “Perspective Drawing”. Tagging can help you get the exact result you expect but can also pull up unrelated results as the tagged words are at the discretion of the uploader of the image. For instance, the image on the left showed up among images tagged “Perspective Drawing” because it had been titled as such. The idea of choosing the image is to help explain the concept of “Perspective”. The image serves that purpose.
Image Link.
I tried my hands on theme-based searches and I must say that I found images for every search I made. I searched for “Perspective”, “Perspective Drawing”, “Painting”, “Scale” and “Proportion”. Perspective Drawing and “Perspective Drawing” (in quotes) did not yield the same results. “Perspective Drawing” was more narrowed. The advanced search option helped me choose between either photos or videos or both. The licenses on some of the images were such that I had permission to use them in number of ways (Creative Commons) whereas others were there only for viewing because of copyright.
Visitors to the website could both download and upload images. The uploaded images carried tags that made them easy to search and viewed. Flickr gives members the option to create groups within which only the members can view certain images they upload.
I see many uses of Flickr’s features in my professional practice as a teacher:
· As the uploaded images include those of photographed artworks, Flickr provides the opportunity to introduce to students artifacts of some foreign cultures as well as the various styles of painting.
· With images, concepts can easily be explained.
· Students can also use some of the images (appropriately acquired) as references to produce their own works of art.
· A class can form a group on Flickr and discuss about images members have uploaded during a project.
· Flickr also provides students the opportunity to exhibit their works of art for public view.
· Images can be uploaded and kept private for later use.
Will Richardson in his "Blogs Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" (2010) outlines other uses of Flickr as a learning tool (pp. 103-107).
Tagging was what made it possible for me to get the result when I searched for the “Perspective Drawing”. Tagging can help you get the exact result you expect but can also pull up unrelated results as the tagged words are at the discretion of the uploader of the image. For instance, the image on the left showed up among images tagged “Perspective Drawing” because it had been titled as such. The idea of choosing the image is to help explain the concept of “Perspective”. The image serves that purpose.
Image Link.