As a Spanish teacher I rely on images in the classroom daily. I have created memory games, board games, and many, MANY activities utilizing photos and pictures. One of my classroom management techniques is to have an activity waiting for my students when they walk in the room. We call it Trabajo de la Pizarra, (Board work). This is basically an activity on the projector that asks the students to complete an individual activity in a notebook that I collect at the end of the week. The activities include review from previous lessons or primers to get them thinking about the lesson for the day. I use pictures and photos in board work constantly. I have used my own but also many from the web. I like the free items available from Microsoft, but Flicker has MUCH more to offer a Spanish teacher and classroom. We can rely on other people's travels to enhance our classroom! An example is this picture here of Tikal, some wonderful Mayan ruins in Guatemala.
Original Image: Tikal Mayan Ruins 2009
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By: chensiyuan
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On another note, I LOVE my new Flicker account! I like that I can hold pictures there and make them completely private, OR make them available to friends and family, OR make them public. On a personal note, with a baby on the way I can see my husband and I using Flicker to share baby photos more privately than Facebook using Flicker. I started to practice uploading photos of my first "child", our dog Winnie. :-)
Original Image: Sleeping Beauty 2
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By: K_Raphael
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I have dozens of my own photos that I think other Spanish teachers might enjoy but I never posted them to the web for fear of what would become of them. With using a Creative Commons license is really a great tool for educators to share. It's free and easy! Creative Commons is truly a gem of Web 2.0.
Tikal Mayan Ruins 2009
Sleeping Beauty 2
Congratulations about "your baby on the way"! Enjoy being parents!
ReplyDeleteSharing photos of other people's travels is very helpful to a foreign language teacher. Many years ago, when I was in elementary school, I was able to use the post cards my uncle brought back from Mexico in a report I gave.