Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ IDT Group
Michelle Krill

Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace - 0 views

  • identity production and socialization in contemporary American society.
  • youth - ages 14-24.
  • Moral panics are a common reaction to teenagers when they engage in practices not understood by adult culture.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • the benefits for socialization outweigh the potential harm
  • Unlike adults, youth are not invested in email; their primary peer-to-peer communication occurs synchronously over IM. Their use of MySpace is complementing that practice.
  • liminal
  • Regardless of what will come, youth are doing what they've always done - repurposing new mediums in order to learn about social culture.
  •  
    I want to talk with you today about how teenagers are using a website called MySpace.com. I will briefly describe the site and then discuss how youth use it for identity production and socialization in contemporary American society.
  •  
    Parents and teachers should all read this one!
Michelle Krill

Ubiquitous Computing - 0 views

  • ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
  • Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality.
  •  
    Ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
Michelle Krill

ISTE - Technology Support Index - 0 views

  • The TSI does not address the need for infrastructure.
  • Higher-efficiency strategies result in more reliable technology support at relatively lower levels of effort.
  •  
    For Assignment 2, Staff Levels post
  •  
    The Technology Support Index (TSI) assessment is a tool for schools and districts to profile their technology support programs and to provide solutions based on those unique profiles.
Michelle Krill

eLearn: Case Studies - Building Better Virtual Teams - 0 views

  •  
    This is a case study on why virtual teams enhance online education and I offer ten suggestions on how to succeed using such teams.
  •  
    These ideas could carry over to many courses, not just marketing courses. Students need to learn to lead and follow in life!
Michelle Krill

Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) - 0 views

  • Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment
  • Today, the weblog is frequently characterized (and criticized) as (only) a set of personal comments and observations. A look at the history of weblogging shows that this isn’t the case.
  • Weblogs (so named in 1997 by Jorn Barger in his Robot Wisdom Web site)
    • Michelle Krill
       
      Here's one for the trivia buffs!
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • Blogging not only allowed us access to the event; it made us part of the event. And with that, the form had indeed finally come into its own.
  • Though consisting of regular (and often dated) updates, the blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources. But a blog is also characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in either the writing or the selection of links passed along to readers. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      This is a great definition for weblog.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      5 uses of blogs in education
  • As Rosalie Brochu, a student at St-Joseph, observes: "The impact of the blogs on my day to day life is that I write a lot more and a lot longer than the previous years. I also pay more attention when I write in my blog (especially my spelling) since I know anybody can read my posts.
  • They’re using blogging software, their students use blogging software, but I’m not convinced that using the software is the same as blogging. For example, does posting writing prompts for students constitute blogging? Are students blogging when they use blogging software to write to those prompts?
  • Blogging is about, first, reading.
  •  
    "Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment."
  •  
    This is the point I'm trying to have teachers experience.
Michelle Krill

From Geek to Gods: Why Have "Social Rock Stars" Emerged? | Social Media Trader - 0 views

  • The power user is essentially the new tribe leader.
  • Some marketers have recognised this are have seen the need to build relationships with the top users.
  •  
    I'm reading Groundswell and this fits right in with that text. Companies are attempting to tap into the groundswell as a marketing tactic.
Michelle Krill

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 0 views

  • ore than a decade ago, schools began investing heavily in laptops at the urging of school boards and parent groups who saw them as the key to the 21st century classroom. Following Maine’s lead in 2002, states including Michigan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota helped buy laptops for thousands of students through statewide initiatives like “Classrooms for the Future
  • Classrooms for the Future
  • Many school administrators and teachers say laptops in the classroom have motivated even reluctant students to learn, resulting in higher attendance and lower detention and dropout rates.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • But Mr. Warschauer, who supports laptop programs, said schools like Liverpool might be giving up too soon because it takes time to train teachers to use the new technology and integrate it into their classes.
  • “Where laptops and Internet use make a difference are in innovation, creativity, autonomy and independent research,”
  •  
    Page 2/3
Michelle Krill

A Second Life for Middle School Science : March 2007 : THE Journal - 0 views

  • The graduate students are working with local area middle school science teachers to design interactive games that will help children grasp difficult science concepts.
  • "Students can conduct simulated science experiments or engage in team-learning activities in our engineering buildings from anywhere, anytime."
  • The special island is completely isolated and can be accessed only in school with a teacher's permission, not from home.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • "Instead of reading about it in a textbook," Chang said, "they're immersed in the environment."
Michelle Krill

How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories | OEDb - 0 views

  • It would be important to note that the colleges that offer OCW courses are not meant to serve as "distance learning" initiatives. Credits and degrees are not offered through access to open sources and participants don't have access to university faculty with these resources.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      I bet this may change as time goes on!
  • Open source, according to the linked article, "refers to any enterprise where data (e.g. journal article, piece of software) may be modified by the relevant community and those modifications may be recontributed to the larger whole." Open access, on the other hand, has come to mean data — like peer-reviewed documents — that may be read without charge.
Michelle Krill

The Chronicle: 10/6/2006: E-Mail is for Old People - 0 views

  • "The key is, you can't do just one thing," he says.
  •  
    College officials around the country find that a growing number of students are missing important messages about deadlines, class cancellations, and events sent to them by e-mail because, well, the messages are sent to them by e-mail.
Michelle Krill

The Chronicle: 10/28/2005: Lectures on the Go - 0 views

  • One of the things you do by podcasting is participate in student culture," Mr. Jackson says, arguing that college students are more likely to show up for class if they think a professor is speaking their language.
  • And perhaps the largest coursecasting project is at Purdue University at West Lafayette.
  • "We're trying to give people as many options as possible if they miss a course and need to catch up â€” or if they just want to review," he says.
  •  
    As more colleges use 'coursecasting,' professors are split on its place in teaching
Michelle Krill

FBI Publications - A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety - 0 views

  • parents should consider monitoring the amount of time spent on-line.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      duh!
  • phone calls from men
  • Some computer-sex offenders have even obtained toll-free 800 numbers, so that their potential victims can call them without their parents finding out.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Consider talking openly with your child about your suspicions.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      Consider talking to them? How about - talk to them - immediately. Come on, I know this is a government site, but are they nervous to say what parents MUST do?
Michelle Krill

Chapter 3. Seriously Cool Places - 0 views

  • These spaces will be flexible and functional and pay greater attention to aesthetics than traditional 20th-century classrooms. This design concept extends beyond the places normally designated as "academic" such that the entire campus can become a learning space.
  •  
    The Future of Learning-Centered Built Environments | EDUCAUSE
  •  
    Chapter 3
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 60 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page