Flickr was a completely new thing for me. My first thoughts were how amazing it is to have so much in one location. I found some amazing phots. An absolutely gorgeous shot of Fall Creek Falls in Tennessee. (I worked there for a couple of summers during college.) I’m also a big Tennessee football nut and found some cool shots of Neyland Stadium. I can absolutely see myself using Flickr on a personal level.
Using Flickr on a professional level is also something I can see myself doing. I teach 6th grade math. So many days the students look at me like, “Yeah, right, so when am I ever going to use this? These skills only exist in this textbook and in your mind, Ms. Broyles.” I chose patterns for my search criterion. I found some really cool shots. I particularly liked these……
These photos could be used for a variety of lessons. The use of shapes in a Geometry unit would cross over into architecture for the photo below by **sirop. Measurement, design, area, multiplication, and division could all be emcompassed. The photo on the upper left by Leo Reynolds shows a collage of patterns, particularly using raw, building materials such as bricks and cracks in sidewalks. These photos could be used when studying lines, line segments, and angles. The different classifications of angles and their measurements could be particularly beneficial. The students could create their own photo collages after a study of these and classify the different types of angles they fine. Math in their world. How novel an idea.
