THIS is something I can wrap my mind around and get very excited about! I love the idea that students can mesh one form of creativity, photography, with another form, writing. Right away I got onto the “What Can We Do With Flickr?” site that Richardson recommended to take a peek at some possible projects students could engage in. I love the idea of using the visual as a springboard for writing pieces that are creative, purely descriptive, informative, etc. It seems there are so many possibilities! What makes this more interesting than simply having students write about a photograph they simply upload onto the computer is the annotation tool that can let students zero in on pieces of the whole, but still have the whole intact. Fun, fun, fun!
Not only could this be good to use in ELA, but I can see lots of potential for Social Studies as well, as Richardson referred to when discussing annotating Civil War battlefields. In our World Geography classes students could up load photographs they’ve taken and then annotate the photographs using the five themes of geography. As they master their understanding of the five themes, they can eventually apply the same knowledge to images they find of places around the world.
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