When the instruction said to choose an image available that is related to curriculum, I immediately thought of science TAKS. We rather bombed our 5th grade science TAKS this year and I need to get involved in boosting those scores next year. The kids have a lot of problems understanding the various cycles: rock, water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, so I uploaded a picture of the nitrogen cycle. I plan to use Discovery Learning/United Streaming a lot more to get more of the concepts into their heads.
I was already familiar with Flickr and its tags. I have been enjoying the hundreds of photos published by the niece of my college roommate. She chronicles her own immediately family, and her extended family which includes photos of my old roommate and her grown children. Since I have not seen her children in over 25 years, I have enjoyed keeping up with them via Flickr. I can go into her photostream and just view the latest, or use a tag search and hone in on exactly what I want to see. She does an excellent job of tagging her photos so that they are readily accessible. She also includes an extensive collection of old family photos that include my roommate's grandmother whom I visited with many times and who lived quite close to my childhood home in San Antonio.
It is interesting that the tags are just plain old fashioned keyword indexing.
2 comments:
how fun for you to be able to keep up with the past using 21st century tools!
Great trading card! I believe you will make a major contribution in bringing up the science scores. I also like the way you are using this tool in your. I had three roommates in college, and we all had children around the same time. We exchange info and photos on holidays, but if we did what you and your friend do, we could keep up with each other a lot better!
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