Thing 11: Photosharing with Flickr

I like the idea of having an image that corresponds with the lesson. Students are very visual and images can help them remember and connect information.
A House Divided













By ambergris via Flickr

I have used Flickr minimally in instruction and for personal use. One of the assignments that required my students to use Flicker to illustrate vocabulary words from our novel. Students found it challenging to find an illustration for the word because they had to really think about the meaning to come up with a term to search. It is an assignment that I will definitely use again. These are the instructions that I gave my students for the assignment: