Hoeben’s Blog

I am torn between migrating over to the new Picasa online photo sharing/management software, which has recently come out for the Mac, and maintaining Flickr as a default online photo sharing site for students. There are clear advantages to Flickr in terms of sharing through groups and the ability to categorise into collections and sets. However, I like the ease of Picasa in being able to sync albums from its desktop programme, making it easy to publish work from within your web album on your hard drive. Here is an example of an embedded album, which I have created in order to showcase different photographers that could be researched for a GCSE photography project called ‘Visual Noise’:

VISUAL NOISE Artist Research

So far, I have required students to have a Flickr account as an e-portfolio. This has worked well as an online showcase, but not enabled students to add more critical analysis of other photographers and interests to their site such as with a blog  like this one. Therefore, this year my GCSE Photography students have created their own blogs using Edublogs – see blog roll below:

These have been successful as each blog has an RSS feed and can easily be collated within Google Reader or on a learning platforms such as Moodle or the London MLE run by Fronter. This year, I have decided to formally submit the blog as evidence of analysis and use the sketchbook as evidence for visual development and the occasional annotations.

I have yet to play with Fronter’s Webfronter, which enables students to create a web page, but this might replace the Edublogs sites if it has enough capacity. It would be good to centralise these blogs within Fronter, but I doubt that there will be the same capacity of ease of use.

This entry was posted on February 2, 2009 at 6:05 pm and is filed under Fortismere, Visual, Web 2.0.