I Am Not Hamlet

Think of ways you may be able to use Flickr in your classroom and share your ideas. What issues might you face? Last year in American Lit. about halfway through Of Mice and Men (after much searching and avoiding the district filter) I found online a collection of Depression-era images. I used my smart board to project them and I trust I gave my students some visual reference of the time that the book was set in. If you have a time machine you could travel back to say, Pontiac's Rebellion or a November day in Dallas in the early 60's, take your pictures and then upload them to Flickr (which I haven't tried to access at school yet). My district doesn't have enough funds for a time machine (I hear Bloomfield Hills is obtaining one), but I can see using this for prompts for writing--find an interesting image, and have students freewrite while viewing it. You could also use it for some biography/memoir projects, geography/culture--I don't know, the possibilities aren...

Why did you choose a particular photo? What is it about the photo that you found interesting? My criteria was "fall" and "Michigan." At first I chose some copyrighted works (without noticing they were such) and uploaded some blank spots. So, I bounced over to the "creative commons" and found "The Great Pumpkin King" by sgs_1019. This wasn't my first choice, but since there remains about 1 hour of Hallowe'en 2008 I found this to be appropos. I like the texture and the rich orange found here. This doesn't necessarily make me think of Michigan, but it certainly captures an image of fall. Now I want to make some pumpkin pancakes.