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Tod Baker

IB Selects ePals To Host Online Learning Community -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 07 Jul 09 - Cached
  • IB also announced that Herndon, VA-based ePals will serve as the community's host.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 07 Jul 09
       
      Our grade 2 students were introduced to ePals last year.
  • In addition to our content, which will be hosted on the site, this new IB hosted learning community will allow our educators and school leaders to connect to exchange, hone and develop best practices."
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 07 Jul 09
       
      How can we integrate this with our content on our elearning platform? Could we integrate it easily if we were on ePals as well?
  • DLP brings together all of the tools necessary for effective remote collaboration, including forums, blogs, wikis, media sharing, and file storage. In addition, the technology provides online security and user protection via client-customizable monitoring and filtering.
  • Tod Baker on 07 Jul 09
     
    The goal of the online community, said IB Director General Jeffrey Beard, is to "create the ideal community and technology platform for ensuring that students and educators at IB World Schools can safely communicate, collaborate and learn with their peers regardless of geographic, cultural or language differences.
Tod Baker

U Tech Tips » Blog Archive » Communicating from the classroom - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 10 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 10 Sep 08
     
    As a technology person you don't always get to decide where you are going to start with teachers. In fact, most of the time the teachers tell you where you are going to start. Hence my focus on parent communication. Many teachers are looking at using blogs as a way to communicate with their parent communities.
Tod Baker

Podcast Help » Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 07 Dec 08
     
    Podcasting has inherent benefits for student motivation (given the existence of a global, authentic audience) and communication skill development. If you want your students to become better writers, authors, and communicators, then they need to be podcasting.
Tod Baker

Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 08 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 08 Dec 08
     
    Pop!Tech is a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas.
Tod Baker

Apple Learning Interchange - Home - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 06 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 06 Aug 08
     
    Join the Apple Learning Interchange Community to connect with your peers and start creating content of your own.
beth gourley

Viddler.com - Those Wacky Kids - Uploaded by mpesce - 0 views

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shared by beth gourley on 04 Aug 08 - Cached
  • beth gourley on 04 Aug 08
     
    Thought you all might be interested in this-(about 45mins long). Could be a nice kickoff with staff on where we are going or want to go with technology. Keynote from "The Digital Education Revolution", Adelaide, Monday 2 June 2008. All about kids, hyperconnectivity, and the gap between how the kids communicate today and how we try to educate them in the classroom. Those Wacky Kids http://www.viddler.com/explore/mpesce/videos/14/ The text for "Those Wacky Kids" is also available at http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=56 His key end points are-- as educators we need to help learners Focus and How to Control hyperconnectivity focus while incorporating hyperconnectivity Use the laptop ethically and responsibly (not as a loaded weapon) (as in teachers) have mastery in a domain of IT SHARe to increase our effectiveness They (students) have the tools but we have the wisdom BTW-has anyone used Viddler before?
beth gourley

"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" - 0 views

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  • Social media is the latest buzzword
  • Web2.0 means different things to different people
  • For users, Web2.0 was all about reorganizing web-based practices around Friends
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  • Web2.0 was about the perpetual beta
  • showcases the ways in which some tools are used differently by different groups.
  • ACT ONE : NETWORK EFFECTS
  • Friendster was designed as to be an online dating site.
  • MySpace aimed to attract all of those being ejected from Friendster
  • Facebook had launched as a Harvard-only site before expanding to other elite institutions
  • And only in 2006, did they open to all.
  • in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred
  • college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook
  • urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace
  • At this stage, over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
  • the single most important factor in determining whether or not a person will adopt one of these sites is whether or not it is the place where their friends hangout.
  • do you know anything about the cluster dynamics of the users
  • all fine and well if everyone can get access to the same platform, but when that's not the case, new problems emerge.
  • ACT TWO : YOUTH VS. ADULTS
  • typically labeled social networkING sites were never really about networking for most users. They were about socializing inside of pre-existing networks.
  • For American teenagers, social network sites became a social hangout space, not unlike the malls
  • Adults, far more than teens, are using Facebook for its intended purpose as a social utility. For example, it is a tool for communicating with the past.
  • dynamic more visible than in the recent "25 Things" phenomena.
  • Adults are crafting them to show-off to people from the past and connect the dots between different audiences as a way of coping with the awkwardness of collapsed contexts.
  • Twitter is all the rage, but are kids using it? For the most part, no.
  • many are leveraging Twitter to be part of a broad dialogue
  • We design social media for an intended audience but aren't always prepared for network effects or the different use cases that emerge when people decide to repurpose their technology.
  • Search changes the landscape, making information available at our fingertips
  • you are probably even aware of how inaccurate the public portrait of risk is
  • ACT THREE : RESHAPING PUBLICS
  • I want to discuss five properties of social media and three dynamics. These are the crux of what makes the phenomena we're seeing so different from unmediated phenomena.
  • 1. Persistence.
  • The bits-wise nature of social media means that a great deal of content produced through social media is persistent by default.
  • You can copy and paste a conversation from one medium to another, adding to the persistent nature of it
  • 2. Replicability.
  • much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
  • 3. Searchability.
  • The key lesson from the rise of social media for you is that a great deal of software is best built as a coordinated dance between you and the users.
  • 4. Scalability.
  • Conversations that were intended for just a friend or two might spiral out of control and scale to the entire school
  • 5. (de)locatability.
  • This paradox means that we are simultaneously more and less connected to physical space.
  • Those five properties are intertwined, but their implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics.
  • 1. Invisible Audiences.
  • lurkers who are present at the moment
  • One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem.
  • having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
  • 2. Collapsed Contexts
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
  • 3. Blurring of Public and Private
  • As we are already starting to see, this creates all new questions about context and privacy, about our relationship to space and to the people around us.
  • visitors who access our content at a later date or in a different environment
  • Social media is not new. M
  • beth gourley on 24 Mar 09
     
    Important summary of how social media works for youth and adults, and how five properties and three dynamics have a systematic affect that we all must deal with.
Tod Baker

A New Day for Learning: How to Cultivate Full-Time Learners - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 21 Feb 09
     
    Discussion and exploration of A New Day for Learning, which showcases model programs that engage students in the array of learning opportunities inside, and outside of, the classroom. You'll walk away from the webinar with lesson plans, best practices, and tips you can implement in your school, your school district, or your community. Read more at the post-discussion page.
Tod Baker

K-12 Open Source Community - Free and Open Source Software in K - 12 Education - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 25 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 25 Nov 08
     
    Free and Open Source Software in K - 12 Education
beth gourley

The Children's Book Council: Young People's Poetry Week - 0 views

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shared by beth gourley on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • helps children move forward in their literacy development by introducing new vocabulary and figurative language, reinforcing phonemic awareness through sounds and rhymes
  • provides practice for oral language development, listening, and oral fluency.
  • Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight.
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 22 Apr 08
       
      had not seen this before!
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  • Mary Ann Hoberman has created a blending of narrative and poetry in her You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 22 Apr 08
       
      we have in the collection--excellent!
  • Wham! It's a Poetry Jam: Discovering Performance Poetry (Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press, 2003).
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 22 Apr 08
       
      we have
  • inviting guests to read poetry aloud,
  • Other ideas for celebrating the oral quality of poetry
  • welcome bilingual members of your community who can read poems
  • ry using puppets to share poems aloud
  • forming a poetry "troupe" of volunteers to perform
  • Invite older students to select some of their favorite poems to perform for younger
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