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Vicki Davis

FOXNews.com - Florida Teen Commits Suicide Before Live Webcam Audience - Local News | N... - 0 views

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education society web2.0

shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08 - Cached
  • But he acknowledged that an investigation into the delay in notifying authorities was "possible."
  • A message posted to his final MySpace blog by his mother Friday mentioned a history of mental illness.
  • "He was blogging between 3 and 4 a.m. on the 19th, Wednesday, at which time he inserted a link in the blog to a live webcam and posted a suicide note, and then was seen lying down on the bed," Crane told FOXNews.com.
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08
     
    Oh my goodness - this is terrible. A florida teen committeed suicide via webcam. This is horrible. Knowing how to report online crime is something we need to be able to do - a sort of e911 for online is what we need.
Eloise Pasteur

Doing Digital Scholarship: Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008 « Digital ... - 0 views

digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/...ion-at-digital-humanities-2008

digital_scholarship humanities research tools web 2.0

shared by Eloise Pasteur on 14 Aug 08 - Cached
  • My session, which explored the meaning and significance of “digital humanities,” also featured rich, engaging presentations by Edward Vanhoutte on the history of humanities computing and John Walsh on comparing alchemy and digital humanities.
  • I wondered: What is digital scholarship, anyway?  What does it take to produce digital scholarship? What kind of digital resources and tools are available to support it? To what extent do these resources and tools enable us to do research more productively and creatively? What new questions do these tools and resources enable us to ask? What’s challenging about producing digital scholarship? What happens when scholars share research openly through blogs, institutional repositories, & other means?
  • I decided to investigate these questions by remixing my 2002 dissertation as a work of digital scholarship.  Now I’ll acknowledge that my study is not exactly scientific—there is a rather subjective sample of one.  However, I figured, somewhat pragmatically, that the best way for me to understand what digital scholars face was to do the work myself. 
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  • The ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure’s report points to five manifestations of digital scholarship: collection building, tools to support collection building, tools to support analysis, using tools and collections to produce “new intellectual products,” and authoring tools. 
  • Tara McPherson, the editor of Vectors, offered her own “Typology of Digital Humanities”: •    The Computing Humanities: focused on building tools, infrastructure, standards and collections, e.g. The Blake Archive •    The Blogging Humanities: networked, peer-to-peer, e.g. crooked timber •    The Multimodal Humanities: “bring together databases, scholarly tools, networked writing, and peer-to-peer commentary while also leveraging the potential of the visual and aural media that so dominate contemporary life,” e.g. Vectors
  • My initial diagram of digital scholarship pictured single-headed arrows linking different approaches to digital scholarship; my revised diagram looks more like spaghetti, with arrows going all over the place.  Theories inform collection building; the process of blogging helps to shape an argument; how a scholar wants to communicate an idea influences what tools are selected and how they are used.
  • I looked at 5 categories: archival resources as well as primary and secondary books and journals.   I found that with the exception of archival materials, over 90% of the materials I cited in my bibliography are in a digital format.  However, only about 83% of primary resources and 37% of the secondary materials are available as full text.  If you want to do use text analysis tools on 19th century American novels or 20th century articles from major humanities journals, you’re in luck, but the other stuff is trickier because of copyright constraints.
  • I found that there were some scanning errors with Google Books, but not as many as I expected. I wished that Google Books provided full text rather than PDF files of its public domain content, as do Open Content Alliance and Making of America (and EAF, if you just download the HTML).  I had to convert Google’s PDF files to Adobe Tagged Text XML and got disappointing results.  The OCR quality for Open Content Alliance was better, but words were not joined across line breaks, reducing accuracy.  With multi-volume works, neither Open Content Alliance nor Google Books provided very good metadata.
  • To make it easier for researchers to discover relevant tools, I teamed up with 5 other librarians to launch the Digital Research Tools, or DiRT, wiki at the end of May.
  • Eloise Pasteur on 14 Aug 08
     
    Review of digital humanities scholarship tools
Vicki Davis

Drape's Takes: First Impressions - 0 views

drapestakes.blogspot.com/...first-impressions.html

edublogger education learning

shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Aug 08
     
    I really enjoyed this post from Darren Draper analyzing the first blog posts of many bloggers. I found it to be a fascinating read, knowing where so many have gone now!
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Aug 08
     
    Darren Draper analyzes the first blog posts of many.
Vicki Davis

Mrs. Eubanks's Website - 0 views

jmeubanks.blogspot.com

edublog edublogger education

shared by Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Jennifer Eubank's Class Blog. She is in Taylor County (just spent some time there) and is really on fire! She used a google form this week. There are so many great ways to use these tools and NO ONE has the monopoly. (No, not me either!) It is so important to keep looking at what teachers are doing and share what we think works and doesn't. I expect great things out of Jennifer!
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Teacher blog sample.
Angela Maiers

DogEared Book Blog - National Geographic Kids - 0 views

kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/dogeared

and reading real writing

shared by Angela Maiers on 12 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 12 Sep 08
     
    Excellent site! Kids read the books, review the books, and blog it about it!
Angela Maiers

DEN Blog Network » Present like a Rock STAR - 0 views

blog.discoveryeducation.com/...present-like-a-rock-star

opportunity presentation

shared by Angela Maiers on 02 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 02 Sep 08
     
    Where's your next presentation-no excuses not to share your knowledge and expertise!
Angela Maiers

Why I Blog - The Atlantic (November 2008) - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog

blogging

shared by Angela Maiers on 20 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 20 Oct 08
     
    Great piece!
Dave Truss

BPS Internet Safety Blog: Listen to the "Be Safe" CyberSafety Song - 0 views

bpsinternetsafety.blogspot.com/...-be-safe-cybersafety-song.html

cybersafety studentvoice

shared by Dave Truss on 12 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 12 Oct 08
     
    The BPS Cyber Superheroes long awaited release of the "Be Safe" song is available for download! You can listen to it here on the blog and download it from the Boston Public Schools Cybersafety website.
anonymous

Science in the open » Policy and technology for e-science - A forum on on ope... - 0 views

blog.openwetware.org/...orum-on-on-open-science-policy

escience science technology

shared by anonymous on 18 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Jul 08
     
    A good blog post concerning James Boyle and his talk where the 'central theme was the relationship between where we are today with open science and where international computer networks were in 1992. He likened making the case for open science today with that of people suggesting in 1992 that the networks would benefit from being made freely accessible, freely useable, and based on open standards'.
anonymous

Mixed Messages in The Blogging Landscape - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...mixed_messages_blogging.php

digital_citizenship readwriteweb

shared by anonymous on 27 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 27 Jul 08
     
    Interesting post about the changing landscape of blogging. Applies to the edublogosphere as well in some respects.
Kristin Hokanson

The Strength of Weak Ties » Tragedy of the Commons - 0 views

strengthofweakties.org/?p=277

shared by Kristin Hokanson on 17 Apr 08 - Cached
  • At its best, Twitter is a place to share a resource, a link to a new blog post, or an insight, and even a place to have a little fun. It’s a place that could be about learning. At its very worst, Twitter is a self-indulgent exercise in self-promotion and pettiness.
  • Those people that have lived off twitter at the expense of their aggregator, have in my opinion, traded in full meals for snack food.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 24 Apr 08
       
      A great analogy for how Twitter falls into the menu of networked learning tools.
  • “God kills a kitten each time you count your Twitter followers. Please, think of the kittens.”
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  • We can decide what we want to read or what we do not want to read. We are big kids, right?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Apr 08
       
      This is why I don't get most of the fuss about people not using twitter the way any particular person likes. If you don't like how someone uses twitter, don't follow them. What else is there to say?
  • Seriously, twitter is not OURS. If people want twitter to act and be used a certain way, it’s time to step up and create/find a service that allows this. For the record, I feel the same about blogging. Prescriptions for use bog us down and stifle creativity and innovation. But what do I know, I’m just a part-time teacher
  • I really enjoy my Twitter relationships
    • Kristin Hokanson
      Kristin Hokanson on 01 May 08
       
      The difference is you do have twitter RELATIONSHIPS and that is key. These are easy to develop with manageble followings ...when there are thousands of people "following you" like in the case of jakes, richardson...they don't need to follow back all the folks...because they do a good job of engaging in the conversation. without having to develop "relationships" with thousands. It would be impossible and would leave them as Shareski said, only constantly snacking
  • his post was about what I considered to be the abuse of Twitter by certain individuals, and the second grade playground mentality of who follows who, and who is in this group, who is in that group, etc. Because you know what, its there. It is, and its not pretty.
    • Kristin Hokanson
      Kristin Hokanson on 01 May 08
       
      I actually think this is a GOOD analogy. I have seen the ....can someone who follows @somebody please tell them.... because they don't follow me...posts...
  • Kate Olson on 17 Apr 08
     
    At its best, Twitter is a place to share a resource, a link to a new blog post, or an insight, and even a place to have a little fun. It's a place that could be about learning. At its very worst, Twitter is a self-indulgent exercise in self-promotion and pettiness.
Diane Hammond

» Outside Looking In | Kate Says - 0 views

www.katesays.org/...outside-looking-in

edu_trends edublog education

shared by Diane Hammond on 12 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I’m going to do the classy thing and close comments here - go show Jon some blogger love and tell HIM how you feel - he’s the one who started all of this……
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Apr 08
       
      Don't ever close the comments! The conversation doesn't BELONG to anyone! It just doesn't - we can talk any place, anywhere that we want!
    • Diane Hammond
      Diane Hammond on 12 Apr 08
       
      It's more natural for people to comment at whatever point (or place) they are pulled into the conversation.
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Apr 08
     
    Added some annotations to this -- I highly suggest that bloggers don't close comments! The conversation belongs to all of us and should take place anywhere it takes place. See Kate's blog for more.
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Apr 08
     
    I don't think it is necessary to close comments -- I'm frustrated I cannot respond to Kate's note about closing comments!
  • Diane Hammond on 12 Apr 08
     
    Added some annotations to this -- I highly suggest that bloggers don't close comments! The conversation belongs to all of us and should take place anywhere it takes place. See Kate's blog for more.
Art Gelwicks

Comment on: Fluffy thinking in the edtech community…a waste of energy and time - 0 views

www.webedtech.com/...nitya-waste-of-energy-and-time

edtech edublogger implement operations planning strategy teaching

shared by Art Gelwicks on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I’m not saying there isn’t a place and a time for strategic thinking, what I’m saying is that the edublogosphere is loaded to the freakin’ gills with it. How many ways can you discuss the innate digital skills of middle school students before realizing it’s worth more to talk about what works and doesn’t work with them. In this case the why is truly “academic”. We’ve twittered, blogged, bookmarked, tagged, forwarded, and flogged this horse to an amazing degree. What I don’t see is the same amount of energy in capturing what’s been done with the students, the successes and failures, in anything longer than 140 characters. If we want our teachers to learn to fish, we have to show them how to bait the hook and cast the line…not wonder if the fish are truly hungry.
  • voicethread.com used in first grade classroom so students are participating in asynchronous conversation and everyone gets to share on topic chosen by teacher. Combined with short recordings from audio enhancement classroom system help the teacher quickly post new content from class to the site.
    • Art Gelwicks
      Art Gelwicks on 17 Apr 08
       
      This is the type of practical example I'm talking about. 30,000 ft. talk is great...only if you're able to land the plane too.
  • Art Gelwicks on 15 Apr 08
     
    Annotated comments about this blog posting.
Vicki Davis

From the Annointed Few to the Collective Many - 0 views

www.learningcircuits.org/0408_wilkins.html

brightideas connectingpeople govt_business hz08 hzmeta usercontent virtualcollab

shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      How sad!
  • the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years
  • a leading web analysis site
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      I find this description of Technorati almost amusing.
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  • more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook
  • among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media.
  • “Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
  • We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift where individuals are indeed connecting “in ways and at levels that [they] haven’t done before”
  • Workplace communities
  • orkplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges
  • talent management is about finding, developing, and retaining key talent within the organization
  • Ernst & Young, for instance, has a significant presence on Facebook in support of its recruiting efforts
  • Google, Home Depot, Enterprise Rent a Car, and Deloitte also are recruiting using Web 2.0 tools through YouTube videos and even alumni social networks
  • “If companies keep social networks out, they will be doing a significant disservice to their bottom lines
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      Understanding networks is important to students. Knowing how to be professional and what is appropriate for different spaces is vital.
  • Between 2000 and 2020, 75 million Boomers will reach retirement age.
  • The only content service with mass adoption (greater than 50 percent) was Social Networking, and this was only among respondents under the age of 35.”
  • In addition, Millennials are the first generation to spend more hours online per week than watching TV (16.7 vs 13.6).
  • some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in  “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.”
  • “heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”
  • robust and active communities will have an easier time recruiting talented Millennials
  • they have opportunities to meaningfully connect to their peers and supervisors.
  • A retiring Boomer who is an expert in a particular field could be an excellent community manager, blogger, or wiki contributor.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      Blogging might be the answer for retiring boomers?
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Business people and management should read this article about the transformation of business by using workplace communities. "Workplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges" -- they focus on tasks. I would find it interesting to see a business REALLY use technology to change things. Having the business in a business network (OK a NING) and let people tag their posts with the business related PROBLEMS they are having and blog, video, or photograph it-- the tag cloud would tell the business IMMEDIATELY what the problems are in the company. The problem with this model is that there are few corporate executives who REALLY want to know the problems within their organizations. They don't want to be problem solvers, just opportunity creators. However, when managers open their eyes (and I'm a former General Manager myself) and see that two things give business opportunity: problem solving and innovation. And they are directly related. True innovation solves problems. Read this article and think about how you may solve problems using the networks you may now create. If you don't want everyone to know, keep it private and only allow people in your company in.
Vicki Davis

Who Taught My Kid That Four-Letter Word? at Remarkable Parents - 0 views

remarkableparents.com/t-my-kid-that-four-letter-word

all_teachers education

shared by Vicki Davis on 17 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 May 08
     
    I love this blog post by parent Vicky Hennigan over at remarkable parents. She's done a great job talking about how kids adjust their expectations because they don'tw ant to fail.
  • Vicki Davis on 17 May 08
     
    A blog post about kids who are afraid to fail.
Kimberly Jurczak

Ms. Jurczak's Instructional Technology Blog: Developing a Technology Club - 0 views

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edublog education elementary pbl research technology

shared by Kimberly Jurczak on 24 May 08 - Cached
  • Kimberly Jurczak on 24 May 08
     
    I am attempting to set up a technology club at my school and am looking for suggestions! This is a link to my blog where I outline the rough draft of the plan.
Angela Maiers

Beyond Blogs - 0 views

www.businessweek.com/...b4086044617865.htm

and blog business

shared by Angela Maiers on 24 May 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 24 May 08
     
    Excellent article from Business Week on the power and impact of blogs.
Brandi Caldwell

The Site for Books & Readers - Shelfari - 0 views

www.shelfari.com/widget

blog books edublog literature shelfari widgets wiki

shared by Brandi Caldwell on 12 May 08 - Cached
  • Brandi Caldwell on 12 May 08
     
    Have you seen this cute widget bookshelf? As an English teacher I love the idea of my "playlist" of books on display on my blog and wiki. Cool idea.
  • Brandi Caldwell on 12 May 08
     
    Interesting widget that allows me to share my "playlist" of titles with my students and the world.
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