One more step into the technological age. All these new accounts that I have now for Blogs, Bloglines, and now Flickr. I feel as now that I have a new arsenal of tools to use at school and home. I will probably now have to upgrade not only my camera, but my computer.
Flickr will have possibilities in my therapy activities with my students. I work with students at various building covering preschool to 5th grade classrooms. Most of my work with my students occurs in a pullout basis base with consultations with their teachers. At times I have collaborative session in the classroom with the teacher. Flickr would be useful with some of my expressive expression activities such as picture description and vocabulary expansion. I can also see expanding the verbal lessons to written activities with sentence structure highlights. Having students use Flickr to generalize there learning would also be wonderful. Flickr could be used to expand student's world knowledge and give students concrete visual referents for concepts and vocabulary and locations that are unfamiliar.
Another area that may have application to my student's carry-over from our therapy would be utilization of the social interaction of posting notes and comments on other people pictures. This would enhance there written, expressive, and pragmatic functional communication skills.
I am sure as I start using Flickr more effectively and learn how to better integrate my skills to the the work setting, that I will find more and more possibilities. Have a great day, Gregory Jacoby
I could totally see a connection between the students using photos and building verbal/sentence writing skills. Awesome idea...or they could illustrate their stories with photos from Flickr..all very art therapy related. Awesome way to get art into their lives more!
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