calebnavidson - February 14th, 2006

Following up on my earlier post about Flickr and learning this service should engage visual learners especially. I can imagine assignments based on visual literacy and the composition of pictures. Faculty with a visual emphasis should feel comfortable presenting images as part of curriculum, and to use the full panoply of Flickr’s social tools – discussion hanging from each image, tags aggregated folksonomically to aid in concept surfacing and identification.

For general faculty and students (i.e., those with learning styles other than visual), I can see Flickr supporting visual literacy exercises, as well as all sorts of pictures which aid in visualizing content. Question: how easy is it to export image content with attendant tags and discussion to other formats, such as a zip folder?

I am fascinating by some of the possibilities involving recursion. For example, I could do a screen cap of a Flickr page in order to illustrate some principle of layout or interaction. Then upload that image to my Flickr account. Pictures within pictures, tales within tales.