Thing 8 Share your creations

Thing 8 is fun! This would be great to use personally but also at school to post photos from activities on the district web page. I can see using the eFolios both professionally and to help students prepare a "resume" via eFolio for careers classes or college applications.
I used PictureTrail and felt is was user friendly. I'd use it again and recommend it to others because they provide so many creative options for displaying photos in fun ways. I plan to further investigate databases at another time.

Thing 5 - More Flickr Fun

I think these creative tools would be awesome to use in schools and in the media center. Some great ideas for using the Mashup tools might include using them to promote the MHS reading incentive program, posters promoting Read Across America or I love to Read Month, and promoting new library books. These tools could also be used to promote other events or activities school wide.

Thing 4 - Flickr

I haven't really thought about how Flickr might be used or helpful in the media center since I would first need to gain access to Flickr in our school district. At this time it is blocked by the filter. I see opportunities for it in our school, such as helping the Ag teachers to post all of their wonderful photos of the Ag activities each year. At this time the Ag teacher has all of the photos on his computer which he mentions causes it to run slow. I also see wonderful opportunities using the photos posted on Flickr from the Library of Congress for learning or to illustrate moments in our history.



I've actually used Flickr to experience photos of a friend and her husband as they traveled around the world. It was fun to see photos she posted of when we met in the Cities for a day last fall.


I am not sure yet as to how I feel about making photos public. I understand pros and cons to this. I wonder if we (speaking as a part of the school district) need to be concerned about posting photos of students. I am sure that we'd need to request permission from parents. I suppose teachers who choose to use Flickr for sharing photos of school activities could post them at private and check the friends box where then in the contacts the teacher would include students as their friends. I'd be interested to read what other schools, teachers and media specialists are doing.