Smashing Magazine design showcase of edu websites by Cameron Chapman hopes to inspire designers working on edu sites to think first of simple navigation no matter how miuch content they have
An example of teacher posting and student responses/posts in Edmodo
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Cathy,
I loaded the Diigo toolbar in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. It's the only toolbar I use. In Firefox and IE, I click on the Diigo icon in the toolbar and mouse hover over "See All Annotations". Another menu will open in whcih you can select the setting you desire in regards to public and private annotations/sticky notes.
I like using the highlighting and sticky notes. This can be a great tool to use with my students. Just like I am doing for Edmodo by pointing out the different features of the site.
You can't remove them as they are not your notes, they were published by somebody else in a group where you have access to (Public, Diigo in Education, etc.).
You have the option to hide them through the Diigo toolbar, or you can abandon the group not to see any notes from any member in it. :)
The Chronicle
on Higher Education reports on College ACB:
Millsaps blocked access to the site a month ago after student leaders
suggested a review of the site contents, said Brit Katz, vice president for
student life and dean of students, in an e-mail to The Chronicle.
Millsaps had also banned JuicyCampus.
Dawn Watkins, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at
Washington and Lee University, said administrators there pulled the plug late
last year after their numerous requests to Mr. Frank to remove most content
mentioning the university were denied. Ms. Watkins said a number of reported
cases of cyberbullying among first-year female students prompted those
requests.
When asked whether restricting access to the site was a freedom-of-speech
issue, Ms. Watkins and Mr. Katz both said their primary responsibilities were to
prevent anonymous postings that name individuals
. And in New York City, students and teachers at Middle School 127 in the Bronx sent more than 60 e-mails to the Department of Education to protest a block on personal blogs and social media sites.
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This website will be used for the investigation of Web 2.0 tech tools and how they may be integrated in teaching and learning. Selected tech tools have been organized by their potential application and those titles are listed on the left navigation bar.
Each page of this website includes a variety of free tech tools that address areas in which students and faculty may want to try something different than what they are currently doing in and out of the classroom.
Feed readers
are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they
make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet
easy. Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can
automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a
day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for
anyone.
Imagine
never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources
again. Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of
marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the
thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.
Feed readers can
quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to
provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are
connected to the curriculum. By collecting sites in advance and organizing
them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for
their students.
Here are several
examples of feed readers in action:
Used specifically as
a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to
global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual
research.
While there are literally dozens of different feed reader
programs to choose from (Bloglines andGoogle Reader are two
biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of
many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and
interesting to look at. It is also free and web-based. That
means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet
connection. Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new
websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no
longer interested in.
What's even
better: Pageflakes has been developinga teacher version of their tooljust for us that includes an online grade tracker,
a task list and a built in writing tutor. As Pageflakes works to perfect
its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed
readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a
discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital
home for students.
For more
information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this
review:
At QuizRevolution you can create interactive quiz content for your website or blog quickly and easily. Simply add your own content to our great-looking quiz templates and create a customized quiz for your audience. After you've created your quiz, copy and paste a few lines of HTML into your website and you're ready to go!
A list of websites to help students practice using their problem solving skills to practice mixed operation equations. The list was compiled by Cindy Lawrence, 3rd grade teacher, at Barton Creek Elementary School. The list accompanies unit 8 of the 3rd Grade Everyday Math Curriculum.
Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government.
Just because you're online doesn't mean that you can't experience the world first-hand - or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government.
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"Earlier this year (2018), Google's Chrome web browser began marking sites without HTTPS as non-secure, meaning that when using a website, HTTP connections are being penalised. This has implications for many schools, in that crucial school information placed on the website will get flagged up to potential readers as being insecure"
How do people who can't see a computer screen navigate a website? Colleen explains the basics of how she uses a screenreader and how to design for visually impaired users.
Listen to the podcast episode that explains how to easily design website that is more accessible: http://www.blindinspirationcast.com/e...
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In a nutshell, COPPA requires operators of commercial websites, online services, and mobile apps to notify parents and obtain their consent before collecting any personal information on children under the age of 13. The aim is to give parents more control over what information is collected from their children online.
This law directly regulates companies, not schools. But as the digital revolution has moved into the classroom, schools have increasingly been put in the middle of the relationship between vendors and parents.
In some cases, companies may try to shift some of the burden of COPPA compliance away from themselves and onto schools
“That is not without risk, and COPPA has a whole lot of gray area that gives school attorneys pause.”
Less clear, though, is whether COPPA covers information such as IP (internet protocol) address, device identification number, the type of browser being used, or other so-called metadata that can often be used to identify users.
some school lawyers have taken the FTC’s previous guidance to mean that their districts must get consent from every single parent, for every single product that collects information online from young children.
First, according to the FTC, schools can grant consent on behalf of parents only when the operator of the website, online service, or app in question is providing a service that is “solely for the benefit of students and the school system” and is specific to “the educational context.”
How are schools supposed to determine if a website or app is strictly educational?
will any information collected from children under 13 be used or shared for commercial purposes unrelated to education? Are schools allowed to review the information collected on students? Can schools request that student info be deleted?
If the answers to that second group of questions are, respectively, yes, no, or no, schools are not allowed to grant consent on behalf of parents, according to the FTC.
Many vendors also allow third-party trackers (usually related to analytics or advertising) to be embedded into their sites and services.
How do schools notify parents and get their consent under COPPA?
Often through an Acceptable Use Policy or similar document that is sent home to parents at the beginning of the school year, said Fitzgerald of Common Sense Media.
Even better, Fitzgerald said, is when schools provide a detailed list of exactly what websites/online services/apps students will be using, and what the information practices of each are.
some privacy experts say that a one-time, blanket sign-off at the beginning of the school year may not be considered valid notification and consent under COPPA, especially if it doesn’t list the specific online services that children will be using.
responsibility for deciding “whether a particular site’s or service’s information practices are appropriate” not be delegated to teachers.
Many districts do in fact have that kind of review-and-approval process.
One is “click-wrap agreements.” Often, these are the kinds of agreements that almost all of us are guilty of just clicking through without actually reading
Herold, Benjamin. (2017, July 28). The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Education Week. Retrieved Month Day, Year from http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/childrens-online-privacy-protection-act-coppa/