Using and Sharing Images

 

By 2008, the projected sales of cameras will reach 1 billion-- "How is culture being transformed by the phenomenal growth of photography?"  Pedro Meyer zonezero.com

 

"The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one"..."Pictures are less objects to be saved than messages to be diseeminated." Susan Sontag  in The New York Times

 

 

The range of resources for using images licensed through the Creative Commons is quite extraordinary--Students need not have access to cameras to do interesting visual work that develops critical and creative thinking, and visual and media literacies.

 

Google's Suite of Visual Tools--Astounding range and flexibilitty and ease of use

 

Flickr.com An image-sharing site where you can sort, group, tag, comment on, geo-tag and leave stickies on--all kinds of applications across the curriculum

Flickr Ideas: 

Flickr.edu A Flickr Group to share teaching ideas

"My Friend Flickr" An Edutopia article on Flickr in the Classroom

Alan Levine's Flickr Photo Highlighting Flickr Uses

Five-frame stories

Six-word Stories

Math Searches

Teaching Anatomy

Ewan McIntosh Using Flickr to Study Scottish Paintings

Splashr : a Flickr plug-in for presentations

 

23, An image-sharing site

 

lulu making books for free

 

OurMedia

Publish and store video and images; also has terrific tutorials

 

Photobucket

Image and video sharing

 

Voicethread

Create a voicebook

 

 

Tabblo.com

Image sharing site; make posters, books, online pages

 

Buzznet PhotoCommunication

Image sharing site

 

Zoomr

Share images no matter what language you speak

 

Dumpr

Lots of fun things to do with your images

 

piknik

Edit photos in your Web browser

 

Amateur Illustrator

Sharing illustrations, gallery and tips on effective illustrating

 

MandarinDesign

Free images and lots of helpful tips for visual webpage design

 

Comeeko

Turn your photos into comics

 

Dandelife: 

Make and share timelines

 

Gliffy.com

Make and share diagrams

 

Bubbl.us

Brainstorming Made Simple

 

Mindomo

Concept mapping

 

Bubbleshare.com

Making photoalbums to illustrate math (from Ewan McIntosh in Scotland)

 

ImageChef

Make customized images for blogs and presentations

 

 

Google Sketchup  Easy 3-D modeling

 

 

MAPS

 

Platial.com

Map making and sharing tool

Example:  Black History Timeline

 

Frappr

Map making and sharing tool--easy to use with Flickr

 

Useamap

Easy to make and share maps

 

Wayfaring

Create, share, explore, connect maps--great for group projects

 

Map Builder

Mash-up for Google and Yahoo maps

 

Community Walk

Creating paths--imagine using this in field work  or for tours of important community places

 

A Screencast by Jon Udell of Making a Walking Tour Using Google Maps

 

Astronomy Picture of the Day

 

Visual Pedagogy

 

Visual Literacy In Earth Science Classrooms

 

Barbara Ganley's Chapter for Coming of Age, Second Edition on Stories without Words 

 

Pomona College's Visual Literacy Project

 

Bryan Alexander's NITLE "Liberal Education" Blogpost on "Teaching and Learning with Flickr"