Last October’s edition of Interface Magazine of New Zealand presented a lesson plan that uses Flickr. The lesson is called 5 Card Flickr Story (Interface Magazine, 2009). It is based off of a card game named 5 Card Nancy, which was created by Scott McCloud (cogdogblog, 2009). From my search, 5 Card Flickr was a feature available in Flickr previous to August 2009. To play the game now or incorporate it into a lesson, students should search for the tag 5cardflickr. Once five photos are displayed, students are to create a story to connect the five random pictures. This activity would spark creativity and enhance writing skills.
It would be pretty awesome to see pictures uploaded by classroom students for the story game. Students can add to the Flickr pool of pictures when tagging uploads by adding the tag 5cardflickr.
I can imagine modifying this simple, yet powerful game for an end of year science review or beginning of the year prior knowledge check. As images are uploaded to a class group throughout the school year a tag for 5cardflickr can be added. This would eliminate scrambling to add the proper tag to all of the pictures at once. Having groups of students pick 5 random images from the school year to create a science based story linking concepts covered would be an excellent way to review concepts for mastery. To use this at the beginning of the school year, I can choose 5 random science content images and see if students can come up with a meaningful anecdote. If they can create connections that means I can spend more time on concepts where they have no prior knowledge.
I’m pretty excited about the possibilities of using Flickr in the classroom, and even more excited about 5 Card Flickr activities. I can not wait to start building a set of photos for a class group.
References
Cogdogblog. (2009). Fivecardflickr: A PHP/MySQL Web Site for Telling Stories with Photos from Flickr . Retrieved 02 10, 2009, from Project Hosting on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/fivecardflickr/
Interface Magazine. (2009, 10). LESSON PLAN 42: five card flickr story. Retrieved 02 10, 2009, from Interface Magazine: http://interfacemagazine.co.nz/downloads/INTERFACE%20Lesson%20Plan%2042%20-%20Five%20Card%20Flickr%20Story.pdf
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