The first arena that comes to mind when thinking of how Flickr or other photo sharing sites could be used is our high school photography classes. Flickr would provide convenient way for students to not only share their work with the teacher but also their peers.
I'm imagining a course that has an online component to it - require students to post their work, respond via comments to the work of their peers, find and share samples of other similar work showing the same elements and principles of design. . .
If designed properly this course could meet the needs of certain portions of the Michigan Merit Curriculum, specifically the online learning portion and the Visual, Performing, and Applied Arts (VPAA) portion. The online learning requirement is challenging for most districts, so creative thinking will be necessary. In granting the VPAA credit to students, the district must first determine if they've met the strands of the credit - Create, Perform, and Respond. It is no stretch to see how a photo sharing site could provide yet another way for students to respond to their own work, the work of their peers, and the work of others.
A class organized in this way may present some challenges, particularly for those students who do not have convenient access to computers and the internet. Another challenge comes with the evaluation component of this exercise - how can a teacher keep up with the number of posts there are to read, and provide authentic, useful feedback to the student?
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Do you see keeping up with student posts as being much different than keeping up with written papers?
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