Faculty/Librarian Partnership Panorama: Using Flickr to Teach Visual Literacy

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Leslie Porter, Atlanta University Center
Sergio Rizzo, Morehouse College

Location

Room 111

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

Morehouse English professor Dr. Sergio Rizzo and librarian Leslie Porter teamed up to create a unique way of integrating library research skills, technolgy skills, visual literacy, and copyright concerns into a semester-long project using the social networking image sharing web site Flickr. Dr. Rizzo and Ms. Porter will describe how they used Flickr as a vehicle for students to share images and have a scholarly dialog with each other, their professor, and a librarian. They will demonstrate the Flickr group they created, share student work, discuss future approaches to the technology as well as the faculty-librarian partnership, and entertain questions.

Keywords

Information literacy, Library-faculty collaboration, Flickr, Visual literacy, Research skills

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Porter, Leslie and Rizzo, Sergio, "Faculty/Librarian Partnership Panorama: Using Flickr to Teach Visual Literacy" (2008). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 62.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2008/2008/62