FlickrLearning

=Learning on Flickr=

Description:
As most people know, Flickr is a photosharing website designed to allow users to log on and upload their own photos. They can tag them, add notes and captions as well as view other peoples photos and write comments on these also. However, it is not simply a good example of Web 2.0. You can also use Flickr as an educational tool, as has been demonstrated [|here]. By allowing anyone to comment on these images, discussion is increased from places around the world. In this way, knowledge is being brought in from various different sources, much like wikipedia does. This can be good and bad however.

Furthermore, being able to put notes onto the images allow the pinpointing of specific important details in the art that someone may be making reference to and that someone else wouldn't see unless it was pointed out.

Significant Insights:

 * This allows mass amounts of information to come in from teachers, students, art historians, etc. around the world.


 * This perhaps could be used for a type of universal (or maybe just a standardized) way of education where everyone would be able to receive the same information no matter what teacher they have.


 * Seems more fun than reading all the information in a textbook


 * Pinpointing ideas means that you can see exactly what is being talked about


 * Tagging of images will group together other images that are also renaissance so that easy references are there


 * This all can be applied to learning strategies.