SMILE (Solving Media Illiteracy Literally Everywhere)
My current plans for the Flickr are to use it to post spelling and vocabulary words for 1st graders in another location. My 7th and 8th grade students will create original projects each using one of the spelling words to pronounce, spell, and use original artwork to instruct the 1st graders. The projects will then be made into podcasts, movies, or presentations to deliver to others via the Flickr website.
My students will learn to use GarageBand, iMovie, Keynote, Photoshop Elements, and other software to create their original works. They will then learn how to upload the final projects to the Flickr website for viewing by the 1st graders and their parents and classmates. If this is successful, we will offer the online dictionary to other schools as well.
The ultimate goal for this project is to create a multi-lingual source for students and other learners around the world to learn their language as well as learn additional languages.
Flickr now allows users to upload both images and videos. We will make some projects private and others public, depending upon school district requirements. “There are two types of public groups: anyone can join and invitation only. Group administrators can choose to show or hide the group photo pool and discussion topics at any time. Private groups are not listed anywhere on the Flickr site. You can join them only by invitation.” (Flickr, 2009)
“With a free account, you can upload photos up to 10MB in size. If you have a Pro account, you can upload photos up to 20MB. Video sizes are limited to 150MB.” (Flickr, 2009)
“On a free account, Flickr limits the number of photos displayed. If you have fewer than 200 photos, we display them all. If you have more than 200 photos, only the most recent 200 are displayed.” (Flickr, 2009). In addition, you are limited to 2 video uploads a month with a free account.
Because of the free limits, we will try to establish different user names for each library set.
My Full Sail set is at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tkfullsail/sets/72157622776531031/ Yahoo. (2009). http://www.flickr.com
Interesting - is this your AR Project? Seems to have layers of lessons. Does Flickr have the right to "dump" your information if the choose? Just curious. It would be a shame to lose the work produced by students because the "storage" space isn't within your control. Sounds like a great project either way.
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