Web 2.0 tools in the classroom are becoming a common practice more and more everyday. There are teachers out there that have really mastered the art of teaching with technology. One such example of this is found on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog (www.coolcatteacher.blogpost.com) where a plethora of wonderful suggestions and lesson ideas incorporating technology in the instruction, processing, and assessing stages of teaching are shared.
One idea posted that I would love to modify for my class is about identifying math in places not normally seen. Students are to use photos from flickr and identify the mathematics in the photo i.e. right angles, acute angles, etc. The photos are to be tagged and explanations of the math posted for each photo.
While, I don't teach mathematics, I could modify this for my social studies class. I intend on using this idea to teach the themes of geography. Students will use flickr to identify 10 photos that represent the themes of geography (2 photos per theme: Location, Place, Region, Human/Environment Interaction, and Movement). Both photos must be of vastly different places in the world still focusing on the theme (i.e. for the theme of movement: New York City - subway, Desert in Egypt - Caravans with camels). Students will need to also add tags that explain how these two, while vastly different still speak to the theme of movement.
Fantastic idea for geography! How fun and rich this would be for the students. Your dance picture is beautiful. What an interesting and fun second profession:)
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