Upon our journeys along the web we are constantly flooded with graphics and images that help us to interpret moments and messages in an instant.
We are also presented with the fact that it is easier than ever to upload and share your own images online for the 'world' to see. Flickr is one such program that provides photo management online, and promotes the application of sharing with the world. It provides the user with mass storage to upload images and video ready for viewing in an instant.
It seems to me that Flickr borders on the trend of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Blogger, etc. Allowing tags for photos, comments, viewing for family and friends and notes on your media seems a very repetitive process if you already have a social networking web page.
In relation for use in the classroom, I don't believe in the relevance of Flickr. Again it is another sign on into yet another program giant, 'Yahoo'. If you already have NineMSN for your hotmail, and a Google account for the Blog your writing and the must have social network, Facebook. You are overloaded with sign in's and passwords, not to mention your personal information spread out over the web.
As far as the obvious goes for photo sharing and storing, any one of the major social networks is capable of providing a similar hosting.
Module 4 Reflection Post/Comment
http://nickphillipson.blogspot.com/2010/04/web-20-module-4.html#comment-form
Karl Beemster said...
I understand the potential use of a photo storing/viewing site and its application towards promoting technology in the classroom. My take on using a similiar program called 'Photobucket' did not offer the technological and societal advancements that other multi-media sites have to offer. This is my personal reflection on an existing program that only provides a basic hosting of media. One that i foresee as an outdated program that has been superseeded by many after it.
Potential - Yes
Essential - No
May 24, 2010 9:58 PM
Dear Mr. Beemster,
ReplyDeleteI truely believe their is a place for Flickr. The social networking sites you mentioned in regards to sharing photos have taken the idea for that from Flickr itself. There was a time when Flickr was a creative and art based site. When it was sold to Yahoo for the millions it was seen as a business move by Yahoo to get fill a nieche that google couldn't. Yahoo's idea was to capture googles target market of creative young people by forcing them to have a yahoo account to use flickr.
As a learning tool I think Flickr is great, one of the first things I have done with my Yr 11 students is sign them up to Flickr. It allows people to share photos accross a platform that does not involve the sharing of social information. I think thats why there will always be a place for flickr.
Regards,
Nick
Beemster. you right in once sense. it is all about getting hits on your site. there are plenty of ways to share photos. This just highlights one of them.
ReplyDeleteSome great reflections Karl. Don't forget that as part of the course requirement you need to have a reflection of somebody else's blog and include your learnings from reading this person's post within your own post. Thanks
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