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Alisa Hilley

Nature Guide Home - Littlewood's Nature Guide - 0 views

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    The Littlewood Nature Guide wiki gives examples of some of the flora and fauna that can be found in our school's environmental center - Nature Guide Home
Joseph Alvarado

Teacher's Guide to Using Facebook (Read Fullscreen) - 6 views

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    A Teacher's Guide to Using Facebook
Bonnie Blagojevic

Diigo User Guide - 0 views

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    The Diigo User Guide has lots of information to help get started and learn more about what this site has to offer.
Kristin Gould

A Simple Guide to All that Teacher Need to Know About Digital Citizenship - 5 views

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    Great resources on lessons to use to teach digital citizenship
Kick Start Tech Edu

Ed Tech Developer's Guide | Office of Educational Technology - 1 views

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    Red Storm was invited to the White House to participate in an educational game jam bringing together students, educators, developers, and policy makers. The goal? Explore how games can play a part in children's education.
Caroline Kennedy

YouthLearn - 1 views

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    Great way for teachers to incorporate digital skills into the curriculum. Offers planning guides, teaching techniques, activities and projects for teaching computer graphics and image editing.
Warren Buckleitner

TRUCE: Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment - 3 views

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    Getting sick of AA batteries? Here's the guide for you. A nice listing of the non-tech orgs in the bibliography. I agree with it, but I also think these guys shouldn't throw the baby w/the bathwater. Learned about this from CCIE.
Bonnie Blagojevic

Evaluation of New Media - 1 views

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    Chapter 5 of the online book Young Children, New Media, and Libraries: A Guide for Incorporating New Media into Library Collections, Services, and Programs for Families and Children Ages 0- http://littleelit.com/book/
Diane Bales

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship - 0 views

  • they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks
  • While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends1 who are also users of the system.
  • Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
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  • SNSs vary greatly in their features and user base
  • the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997
  • Most took the form of profile-centric sites
  • Unlike previous SNSs, Facebook was designed to support distinct college networks only.
  • a shift in the organization of online communities
  • primarily organized around people, not interests
  • "Friends" on SNSs are not the same as "friends" in the everyday sense; instead, Friends provide context by offering users an imagined audience to guide behavioral norms.
  • there are passive members, inviters, and linkers "who fully participate in the social evolution of the network"
  • most SNSs primarily support pre-existing social relations.
  • she argues that SNSs are "networked publics" that support sociability, just as unmediated public spaces do.
  • Scholars are documenting the implications of SNS use with respect to schools, universities, and libraries.
Sue Griebling

Family Guide to Assistive Technology - 5 views

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    This paper seems a little old (1997) however, is a good overview of assistive technology.
Bonnie Blagojevic

Learning, Digital Media and Creative Play in Early Childhood | Spotlight on Digital Med... - 6 views

  • Parents need help figuring out how to set limits with new media and making sure it doesn’t replace one-on-one time talking with their children, which experts agree is still the most valuable learning tool of all.
  • in addition to identifying quality in children’s media, is getting parents to understand the importance of setting limits and guiding their children’s media play.
  • before using technology with young children, teachers and parents should ask themselves: “What’s the value added at this particular developmental level?” and, “What can technology offer that other things can’t offer?”
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  • “What are really useful are the interactive and empowering tools.”
  • “I get nervous when people just close the door on technology in preschool,” she said. “There’s an opening of windows onto new worlds that can occur when you have a computer there – a YouTube video or a Skype chat with other preschools in Sweden or Singapore. These are especially magical moments that can happen with young kids -  especially when they just don’t get that otherwise.”
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