Flickr would be a great tool to use for an art class. One of the hardest things is to teach students how to look at things around them differently. I would start the class by showing photos to them of things they cannot recognize such as the close up of the bark on a tree or the veins in a leaf. I then would challenge them to find common everyday objects and takes photos of them in a different way. We would try to see who could come up with the most unusual photos. Then we would load them on Flickr and make a group photo site. This would accomplish many objectives. The students would have to learn to manipulate the camera to get the shots they wanted. They would also learn how to critique each others photos and offer suggestions how to get the shots they wanted. The best thing of all is that the students would be looking at the world around them differently.
The group photo site on Flickr could be downloaded on disk as documentation of the class project and could be put in the student's portfolio.
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