Flickr

One of the ideas for using Flickr I shared in the class discussion blog was using it to post photos of some of the sites I saw in England for my English Lit. class. I took numerous pictures of the Globe Theatre and Stratford-Upon-Avon. They give a bit of context to Shakespeare's world. What would it be like to stand with the rest of the groundlings to see a Shakespeare play? What does his gravesite look like? Other places where I took photos included Canterbury, Oxford, Bath, and the Lake District. Students might get a real feel for why many of the early Romantics were inspired by nature if they could see some of what those poets saw. These visuals could be compelling tools for the classroom.