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<P>Perhaps you all have encountered this before but this is a first for me.
Looking out the window of my office in downtown L.A. one has a great view of the
billowing clouds of smoke coming from a fire that broke out in the Griffith Park
area of Los Angeles a few hours ago. Wanting to get more information about the
fire and in particular about how it might be affecting freeway traffic for my
commute home, I googled "fire in griffith park" and in addition to some news
reports, found a link to a local weblog that said "People are putting up photos
all over Flickr. The tag is here." Clicking on the link brought me to </FONT><A
href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=griffith+park+fire&s=rec"><U><FONT
color=#0000ff
size=2>http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=griffith+park+fire&s=rec</U></FONT></A><FONT
size=2> <FONT size=3>which indeed claims to have some 300+ photos posted
already.</FONT></P>
<P>I got to wondering about how this could all be used in a teaching context,
especially in light of recent discussions in this forum and others about
incorporating mobile technologies into adult education. What if teachers
worldwide, communicating through email, set up a common assignment such as
"Sometime today, post pictures to flickr (or some other website that allows
photos to be posted directly from cellphones)of a family doing something
together and tag the photos with the same descriptor which is "Family Activity
ESL" or something very specific." Students would then be sent out to capture
images on their cellphones as homework and they would send them directly to the
flickr. The next day, all of the students could type in the search term to see
the images that were posted from all over the world and use them as the basis
for discussion or writing assignments in their own classes or between classes or
individuals worldwide...</P>
<P>Just thinking outloud here...</P>
<P>Barry Bakin</P>
<P>Pacoima Skills Center</P></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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