I found a lesson plan titled “Tagging with Flickr”. The lesson takes about 30 minutes. Students will open a flickr account with 8 untaged photos. This lesson stresses the importance of tagging. Tagging is something that individuals usually do to share their work. Students are to work in groups to share their observations about tags for different photos. Students should consider with deliberate thought, Why we tag, Who we tag for, and How to make tags better.
The instructor also wants students to become comfortable using Flickr as a tool to search for tagged photos. I can see this as an excellent source to search for photos for different purposes. The instructor describes tagging photos as a skill and I agree. If a student is looking for photos that depict outdoor activities, then that student must use the search terms that would produce such photos. This is where tagging comes in. For example a photo is tagged with the word “homer” you will get images of Homer Simpson and images of baseball players hitting home runs and you will even get photos of things that have to do with neither. This is why the instructor stresses that careful consideration should go in creating tags. This is a good lesson plan; I hope to find a way to use it myself.
http://capping.slis.ualberta.ca/cap07/SarahPolkinghorne/lessonplan.html
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