BP9_2009122_Flickrlesson

The App Flickr I find very interesting because of the make up of the format. I have a lesson that was very hard to do but through Flickr it can be pretty easy. I use images all the time in my classes considering that I teach art. in this lesson I have the students compare and contrast art styles. With the grouping abilities of Flickr I can easily group my selections for the students to comment on. I also see this app. as a wonderful tool for storing images according to historical art movements. When trying to teach an art movement it is always a lot of work to gather up images to critique in one given style. With this app. I can gather images as I go and store them within a group to be used as I need them. There are different things that you want to point out in a given style that are not present in every piece but if these works could be found all in one place then I can pick and choose the ones I wish to work with for that lesson. This also can be done with a given artist. Their works are spread out all over museums all over the world. To be able to accesses them as a whole body of work will be wonderful. Image organization is very important in an art class. Up until now I have had to rely on books and large folders of images taking up vast volumes of storage area that now can be used for other things.