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While researching flickr, I came across many lesson plans, but I came across an idea of my own that I will be using and implementing in my reading lesson. Like I have blogged earlier, I am teaching my students about text features. Heres what the lesson plan would look like:

Objective:

Students will be able to create their own text features

Students will be able to use the Web 2.0 tool Flickr to create text features

Motivation: Have a slide show of student interaction. (can get from school website) Ask the students what do they think the people in the slide are thinking just by looking at the expressions on their faces. Tell them they have verbally given you captions for each picture. Tell them that they write captions everyday and do not realize it. Tell them that today they will have the opportunity to write captions for pictures that they will find on Flickr. Tell them that they will be using other text features as well, like: bold print, font color, headings, titles and pictures.

Materials:

Class Flickr account

Lesson:

Tell students you are going to introduce them to new tool that they will be using in the class.

Introduce them to Flickr. Tell them that you have already started a classroom group for them to join. Once they have joined the group they can post their pictures to it so that classmates can look at their pictures and add captions, heading, titles, font color, font size and bolded print.

-students will find pictures and post to class group

-students will add captions, font color, titles or heading and bolded words to any classmates picture. They can not add these text features to pictures that they chose.

-save the edited pictures to the class group

-have each student tell about the text features they added. Allow other students to add comments with positive feedback.

Below you will find an example of a student's finished project.

Game Day (title, font color and size)

The boy is trying to hit the ball (Caption)

You can also use this idea to teach inferencing. Just have the kids write captions about what they think the person is thinking in the picture. This will get them to look at people's facial expression to discern hidden meaning.

Here's an example of inferencing

This little girl is happy because it's her

birthday. I can tell it's her birthday because

she has cake all over her face!

*pictures from Flickr