October 6th Class Post

The topic that I chose to find images for was that of beauty. I did not want to go the traditional route with this topis and only select images that society would deem beautiful. I chose to look at the beauty of aging. I looked on Flickr and found pictures of people from various cultures that had one main thing in common: wrinkles. That was actually my search term.

I feel like our society is afraid to age and get wrinkles . So afraid that we now come up with anti-aging creams and injections to stop that process. The people in the photos, however, have embraced their wrinkles and are beautiful because of it.

Dixie and I were talking about how to include Flickr in a poetry class. She was talking about haveing them come up with both images and song to go along with a selected poem. I took it one step further and thought it would be fun to have the students 1. write a poem, 2.put images and song to the poem and, 3.trade poems with a partner and have them put pictures and music to that same poem. After that was complete, the students would watch both versions and discuss their differences (if there are any) in the interpretations of the poem.

Here is my slideshow:


Using VoiceThread was great. I wasn't sure how easy it was going to be, but the tutorial was right in saying it wouldn't take very long. I didn't want to use pictures from Flickr, but I don't have too many personal photos on my computer. I pulled a few of these pictures from the website I made in the technology course while I was in the initial licensure program. On that website there was a section titled "About Me" which showcased my family. So, that is what this VoiceThread is about.