Flickr/ Windows Movie Maker/ How technology fits into the curriculum

Flickr is an online photo sharing site. This site enables you to use photos legally, although you would most likely have to give credit to the person whose photo it is. This site also enables you to upload your own photos as I have done in a previous year. Although this site requires uses to acknowledge where the photo came from it does not necessarily allow safe use of the pictures. The pictures on this site can be accessed by anyone originally and so it would be inadvisable to put pictures on students on this website.

Windows movie maker is an engaging tool for students to use as they can create just about anything using movie maker. Movie maker can be used by taking a lot of pictures and creating a clay animation film, or taking video from a digital camera and editing it into a video for a particular audience. I used windows movie maker in a class the other week. The students had to film a documentary about their robot that went around a make shift Antarctica and saw a range of endangered animals. What the students enjoyed the most was making the props, programming the robot and filming the documentary. The greatest part of the whole experience is that it was all the students’ work (I filmed while they read their parts).