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March 7th, 2008 (11:48 am)

Hey Everyone,

So I finally uploaded the pictures I took onto the Flicker Website, and I found it very easy to do, and enjoyable. I took pictures from around my house, but tried to get low down to the floor to capture the view that I child would have. I also used the knowledge that I read about in the children and photography article to take pictures of subject matter that would be interesting to a child. Luckily my room has plenty of stuffed animals, and my house is filled with childhood memories, so it wasn't to hard for me to find things that would interest a child. I also put captions under the pictures, which explains a little bit about what the child said about their photographs. I feel that online albums, where the children can display their photographs are a great idea to implement into classroom settings. For children photography is a great learning experience, and it becomes even more meaningful when the activity is extended so that the children can reflect upon the images they capture, and share them with their friends and family. Obviously their is the concern for privacy, but their is a feature on Flicker that allows the user to choose who they want to share their photographs with. I really enjoyed completing this assignment, and loved how simple and fast I was able to create my album and share it with friends and even groups of people that I added. Oh I almost forgot, here is the link to the photo's I put up, take a look because I think they are fairly funny. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24471714@N04/

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Posted by: nwilliam ([info]nwilliam)
Posted at: March 7th, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC)
Flicker pics

Thanks for sharing friend. The extension of sharing through a child's eyes with comments in relation to photo's for me placed helped me to translate the meaning of them through their eyes.

Posted by: anarendr ([info]anarendr)
Posted at: March 8th, 2008 05:32 pm (UTC)
Flicker album

Wow Shoshi I saw your flicker album and its awesome. I like the descriptions of each picture. I found that their view of seeing things very different. Your pictures gave me a betetr expansion of the different interests and what children see as a child. Great Job!!!

Posted by: alix_mg ([info]alix_mg)
Posted at: March 8th, 2008 06:50 pm (UTC)

Shoshi, I really liked your photos, i feel that they really do capture the essence of a child, showing their favorite toys, and items in their room and around their house. How do you add friends to your group, like we are supposed to add the professor but i can't figure out how.

Posted by: shoshi ([info]shoshi999r)
Posted at: March 9th, 2008 02:59 am (UTC)
how to add friends

Hey Alix,

Yeah i had problems with the too, no worries. What you need to do is just type complicttheory in the friends search area... not the whole weblink he gave us, you only need the persons name.

Posted by: Stephanie H. ([info]moons_mistress)
Posted at: March 31st, 2008 03:50 am (UTC)

Great pictures! I liked how you used the quotes from the article.

Did you think about taking your camera in for your placement students to do something similar? As long as the students aren't in the photographs, I have found that most placements sites are okay with you using a camera with the students.

Posted by: shoshi ([info]shoshi999r)
Posted at: March 31st, 2008 03:05 pm (UTC)
placement

im already done my placement, but yes i have done it in the past, and my mentor teacher from this years past placement took many pictures of the children during thier activities and posted them all over the different areas of the classroom for the children to look at, reflect on, and help them understand what each area of the classroom is for. It was also a great way for parents to gain a feel for the classroom when they came in for parent-teacher interviews!

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