Here is a photo of Fantastic Mr. Fox that I found tonight on Flickr. Flickr allows me to upload, edit, manage, and share photos with everyone I know and everyone I don't know. Interestingly, I sent Mr. Fix to my blog through Flickr. I guess we'll see how it turns out when I finish this entry in Flickr and it shows up in my blog!
I'm giving Flickr mixed reviews. I didn't think it was totally intuitive to use. The tour was very basic and didn't provide that much information. The HELP feature is likewise not that great. I found using it to be more time consuming than if I just posed and took the pictures myself, edited them using iPhoto and shared them some other way. I'm not positive (but I'm almost positive) that I could just upload a picture from my desktop to my blog without getting involved with Flickr. Just the same, if someone wanted to share their random pictures with everyone they know and don't know, I suppose Flickr is as good a system as any.
I can think of many ways I might use photos to teach chemistry, though I am not certain I would use photo sharing to do so. I mean, why not just embed the photos I take (or download from Flickr!) into power points or Notebook software or a new photoalbum in iPhoto and show it as a slide show? Or put it on my webpage? I really liked the math teacher's lesson where he had students take or find pictures that showed math and use Flickr to add notes on the pictures about the math. That is something I could do with chemistry. Students could take a picture of something that shows chemistry and explain the chemistry in the picture using the add note feature in Flickr. By doing this, students would be working toward mastery of standard 6 that states that students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations and select and use applications effectively and productively. Students could demonstrate mastery of a chemical concept and also learn how to use Flickr. Other ways to use photosharing? Take pictures of lab groups and ask students to give feedback for what they're doing well and what they could improve on. Show students pictures of molecular models and have them name the compound, name the class of compounds, and/or identify properties of the compounds. Show pictures of chemical reactions and ask students to identify how they know a reaction took place. Ask students to submit a photo and indicate a chemical change and a physical change that could happen to the subject of the photo. Using photos to teach leads to many possibilities.
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