Archive for November 4, 2006

For our class blog we use Learnerblogs – now I have become slowly more frustrated with what can be added to a blog post, as embedding web 2.0 and other media would be really useful. But I have just discovered this excellent Flickr wordpress plugin for Learnerblogs.

As you can see from the image above a small Flickr bar is added to the writing screen. The children can add relevant images to their posts that have been uploaded to our Flickr account.

There is also a tag related search option so the children can filter to exactly the photos or images they need. I have also tried to delete the pre-configured username and just do a tag related search on its own and it works. So essentially the children have a way to do tag related Flickr searches right there under their post Happy days!

So tagging…I think that this should be something that the children are very aware of and perhaps I can bring in other tagging topics such as del.icio.us.

In my eyes Flickr seems to be developing into a great classroom resource, but I think that the children should be contributing to the class image set as well. I would like them to know the whole process of taking the digital image, uploading to the computer and to Flickr, tagging and naming correctly, organising into sets, geotagging when appropriate, and then using the image in their work.