Friday, October 17, 2008

It has been awhile, but we are back!
It is time to continue the discussions about visual learning through Web 2.0 tools.

Splashr: Flickr SlideShows
Please view the Presentation Sample here. I would use these presentation tools to spark a discussion around communicating through photographs. Concepts such as  special relationships, emotions, expressions, or cultural awareness could be discussed.
How it is done
These photos were collected through a concept of tag searching. I first searched in the Slpashr Tool, "Sad Eyes." This yielded an amazing set of  photographs in quality and expressiveness. Splashr allows one to search Flickr shared photos, using specific tags to pull together a collection of pictures as a slide show. Each photo slide has the artist's link beside the slide to click back to within his/her Flickr photo collection as an attribute of their works. A Splashr slide show can then be embedded in blogs or Web Pages such as this. Is this a useful Visual Learning tool? (This is not an endorsement but rather an example of one of many free Web 2.0 tools to support learning).
My Presentation (Right Click-Opens in a New Window)

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