I’ve been getting more and more interested in the complexities of READING images, be they photographs or maps or whatever. Alan Levine is onto something here with Flickr’s Hotspot feature, which I hadn’t explored until this posting nudged me to do so. Take a look at this image (one from the Joe Wilner exploration)

Levine is startlingly obviously screamingly RIGHT about this as a tool that has all sorts of applicability in teach/learn situations in just about EVERY discipline, wherever there are images or visualizations.