Post about women in edtech.

Wes has a post about the misconception that there are "no" credentialed female presenters for conferences and lists a long list of women edtech presenters -- great for anyone planning a conference.

Just remember that we only 16 tags -- that is NOT a lot!

Also -- looking at it by NOUN is important. Who is a person -- I"m an administrator so I'd be interested in this. I found that structure really helped me in delicious.

Finally -- we need to leave room for folksonomy still -- and should understand which tags are for what -- people aren't yet selecting from the tag dictionary we're using so we're not getting the benefit of the true aggregation that we can have.

Vicki

Michael Baker wrote:
> I'm hosting a virtual conversation to discuss standardized tagging at the below link. The meeting will run today from 1-2 pm EST.
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> http://208.185.34.51/launcher.cgi?room=southside
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> You need to leave the Room ID as southside and please enter both your first and last name in the name field. This can take a few minutes to load if you haven't used Wimba in the past. Feel free to invite anybody interested in the topic.
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> MB
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> Michael Baker wrote:
> > Group,
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> > I just posted the below in several forums. Thoughts are appreciated.
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> > Standardized Tagging
> > So I'd like to call for a virtual meeting to discuss tagging structures. I've had a chance to look at the tagging dictionary and the community tags work well, but my thoughts are on a system that goes one step further.
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> > Example: if you tag podcasting, you really are covering a lot of group. Is the site a how to, best practice or general example? What can happen quickly is that you get a list of 50+ podcasting links and you've got to sort through them to find specific content. I was Skyping Michelle Krill earlier and we brainstormed a few ideas.
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> > Think of file formating. Excel = .xls Word = .doc Flash = .swf, etc...
> > If we chose (Michelle's term) add-ons, we could go a long way to better organizing our resources. Example: If you find a site that is a best practice for wikis, you wouldn't tag it wikis, you would tag it wikis_bp. If you find another wiki site that shows how tos, wikis_ht. This would allow for your tags to stay together, but better sort the resources. We could start with the development of standardized tagging add-ons. Think of this as an IEEE approach to education. Who is interested in meeting to discuss?
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> > MB
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> > John Maklary wrote:
> > > I like the idea of a shared group. Should we consider some tagging standards to help with organization? Already there are a LOT of tags and I've been finding that too many tags make important links get buried quickly. Should groups be more topic specific? I guess we're all trying to get comfortable with diigo.

What some teachers are doing for earthday - April 22nd -- some good ideas.

Cool free events for educators -- you can subscribe to the google calendar.

Cool free pd events for educators.

Interactive stories website -- great for grades 3-8 and many great samples. This is great for teachers of writing.

Today on horizon, my students set up their PLN (personal learning network) in their RSS reader -- we use Netvibes although some switched to Google reader. Here is how I will assess this: I am assessing the students on this by having them print the page out and turn it in -- I'm also checking over their shoulders in lieu of printing -- but I may not get to everyone. -- In this blog post, I've REQUIRED 6 things on the page -- each is worth 10 points -- with 2 of those points being for a properly edited title in Netvibes (so that they may see what is what!) -- and then I have them find at least four additional sources of information for another 10 points each. Knowing how to set up a PLN for a topic of study is a VITAL skill for the 21st century researcher. I like Netvibes because it is very simple -- one page interface.

Best practice on setting up a PLN as done for the horizon project 2008.

This lets you create an account to make ipod tutorials. This is free and there are several educational videos already there including this mogo on how to use mogo from the 18th ITSC 07 (Innovative Technology Schools Conference). Education is moving to ipods and cell phones -- it is the next major progression. Perhaps 1:1 ipod projects are next?

More ability to use handheld devices is emerging with this website that lets you create tutorials and information via ipod.

If you use blogger, this is a must read post for you.

If you use blogger -- if you log into http://draft.blogger.com you can try out some experimental features for blogger including scheduled posts and some cool new integration features from google reader.

This New York Times article on the Open Content Alliance is an essential article for librarians and media specialists to read. It is also important for those following the fight for information and control of that information. In this case, the Open Content Alliance wants to make books that they scan available to any search engine while Microsoft and google are aggressively approaching libraries for exclusive access to their content. (which could be rescanned by another later, possibly.) Librarians and media specialists should understand this... when will people approach schools to scan annuals or student produced works? Maybe that is a while off, but for now, be aware that it is probably inevitable.

An overview of the Open Content Alliance versus Google and Microsoft battling to take control of the content housed in libraries.

This fascinating tool lets you map and flowchart things.

Fascinating tool to map out thinking and flow charts. This is a tool that I will come back to and spend some time with. This would be great for kicking off a major project -- I want to experiment with collaborative features.

The educational "pack" of twitterers -- join this wiki and add yours -- this helps newcomers find twitterers grouped along a common topic. I'm exploring to find people in other areas to learn from!

This page lists many of the educational twitterers.

This is a fascinating site to explore ancient civilizations while looking at: cities, religion, technology, trade, writing, or buildings.

This is a fascinating site to explore ancient civilizations while looking at: cities, religion, technology, trade, writing, or buildings. I could see many fascinating ways to use this tool, however, I keep wishing that having ways for students to add information and thoughts would begin to be a part of the focus of museums -- for indeed preserving how people think and reflect on things such as history is an amazing archival opportunity in itself!

Follow this twitter account to keep up w/ NECC.

The NECC twitter account

The NECC fringe festival is going to be fun! This is an example of collaborative meet ups and the new sort of "unconference" that is popping up around many of the innovative conferences.

This is a place we should plan to join in with NECC.

Boy, there are a lot of podcasts here, and it looks like they are all done by just two people!

This is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.

Alice shared this earlier, but I went back and added annotations AND the tagging standard -- this will show up in the links and make this article rise to the top as we discuss it.

Now -- IF you're using the standard tags in our tag dictionary (you have to click on the group name ) -- see http://groups.diigo.com/educators/bookmark/tag/bestpractices

This is everything tagged best practices over here -- We are going to have some VERY useful resources put together by all of us. Note the RSS button on the top right hand side!

This is the "site community" for my blog -- I'm learning a lot about what people have marked and the annotations feature is really cool. If you blog or have a website, you should look at the automatically created site community -- also check it out for those sites you really enjoy reading -- you may turn up some of their great old posts that you've not read!

This is a sample of the "site community" that is created around every website-- all bloggers should take a look at the site community created around their own site. Cool!

Ryan has a great comparison of the various social bookmarking services for those wishing to make a choice.

Okay, here it is. I'm dumping Zotero, Delicious, and Google Notebook for Diigo. Blasphemy to some, I know, but I can basically get all I need in one: This chart by Ryan Bretag summarizes what the sites can dol. he left off a few but this is great.

A great list that I came across from the educators group on Diigo-- this is a collection of internet safety information -- great resources. This is an excellent tool.

This is a great resource and is a list of websites for Internet Safety purposes. What a great tool.