Art in 3-d for elementary classes

When the tagging system gets better (and I need to be better at it, myself!) Flickr will be an even more wonderful site than it currently is for use in the art classroom. For a few years I have used Google Images to assemble groups of pictures for use in my art classroom. We look at works by individual artists this way, and we look at buildings to talk about how we know what kind of building it is by how it looks, and we look at landscapes, animals, plants, and so on…as part of what we do in the art classroom. I can see Flickr becoming part of that use.

I can also see us posting our own groups of pictures, and looking at pictures by other students with great interest. Maybe students could get into a version of lomography, which as I understand it, is taking pictures casually, without framing them, focusing them, or even trying to hold the camera steady (!). Novel uses of cameras like this give a flavor to the work that is impossible in another way. I am sure there are other novel ways of using cameras and Flickr to show the work that we will find.