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Tod Baker

Five Essential Tech Tools for School Administrators Part 2 - 0 views

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blogging tools

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  • Tod Baker on 15 Oct 08
     
    In this second in a series of three articles on "Five Essential Tools for Campus Administrators," I offer some imperfect responses to the most common questions about blogging.
Tod Baker

Creative Educator - Home - 0 views

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magazine education technology projects creativity classroom management

shared by Tod Baker on 05 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 05 Jan 09
     
    Creative Educator focuses on using technology tools to foster creativity and engage students in the curriculum. Published by Tech4Learning, Creative Educator features articles on project-based learning, creativity, classroom management, and more from authors with a range of experience in educational technology.
beth gourley

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

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hyperconnectivity pesce viddler

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 web2.0 networking

shared by beth gourley on 24 Mar 09 - Cached
  • 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

Langwitches » Web Searching Strategies for Elementary School Students - 0 views

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search wyb

shared by Tod Baker on 02 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 02 Feb 09
     
    We do have to prepare them for research in media that is current for our times and one they most likely will use as as their primary source for gathering information as they grow. Are books still your PRIMARY source when YOU gather information? In our elementary school we are using the following search tools :
Tod Baker

Best Tools for Writing Online - 0 views

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writing tools

shared by Tod Baker on 15 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 15 Dec 08
     
    A great resource list compiled by Mashable Editor, Paul Glazowski
Tod Baker

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » SmartBoards vs. Promethean... - 0 views

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promethean smartboard tools

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  • Tod Baker on 26 Apr 08
     
    discussion about Smartboard and Promethean interactive whiteboards
beth gourley

In Leopard, Preview is a superstar | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

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mac preview

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  • First, Mac OS X allows you to create a PDF document from any program that supports printing. Choose Print from the File menu, click the PDF button in the Print dialogue and choose Save as PDF from the pop-up menu.
  • Second
  • Mac OS X includes an application called Preview that opens and displays PDF files faster
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  • many new and useful features
  • easy to reorder pages in a PDF documen
  • The Mark Up icon provides a drop-down menu with highlighting, strike-through and underlining tools, all fantastic for editing text.
  • choose Customize Toolbar from the View menu.
  • Annotate icon's drop-down menu lets you add colored ovals, rectangles, lines, notes and hyperlinks to PDF
  • Choose Sidebar from the View menu, then click and drag any page to its new location.
  • Preview can capture, display and save a picture
  • Choose Grab Selection, Grab Window or Grab Timed Screen from the File menu.
  • Preview can now open, edit, and save many types of image files including TIFF, GIF, JPEG and Photoshop files.
  • Click the What's New in Preview link in Preview Help to learn more.
  • beth gourley on 28 Apr 08
     
    good overview of preview feature.
Tod Baker

VoiceThreads: Extending the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums | Edutopia - 0 views

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tools voicethread

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  • Tod Baker on 19 Apr 08
     
    success story that I'm stiving for myself
Tod Baker

hakia Search Engine Beta - 0 views

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hakia searchengine tools

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  • Tod Baker on 21 Aug 08
     
    hakia is a general purpose "semantic" search engine, dedicated to quality search experience.
Tod Baker

- Animoto: Education - - 0 views

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animoto tools videos

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  • Tod Baker on 18 Apr 08
     
    free All-Access Pass to create full-length videos
Tod Baker

13 Days that Changed American History - 0 views

voicethread.com

audio photos tools voice voicethread digitalstorytelling history

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  • Tod Baker on 07 Dec 08
     
    example of a quality Voicethread created by secondary student
Tod Baker

EasyBib: The Free Automatic Bibliography Maker - MLA and APA citations - 0 views

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digitalcitizenship tools citation bibliography reference

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  • Tod Baker on 30 Nov 08
     
    The Free Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker
beth gourley

Smart Technologies whiteboard software now requires product keys for installa... - 0 views

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fryer promethian smartboard

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  • I’ve noticed some teachers can become quite adamant about the superiority they perceive for either the Smart and Promethean electronic whiteboard. These conversations can be quite similar to the “Mac or PC” arguments which flare up from time time time.
  • It is still rare, however, to find a teacher with extensive experience using more than one whiteboard platform, however.
  • Whatever electronic whiteboard platform you think is better (eInstruction is also a big player too, of course) it’s impossible to ignore the HUGE sums of money schools continue to spend on these devices.
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  • Unfortunately, IMHO, electronic whiteboards are not a technology which inherently encourages pedagogic shifts in instructional practices
  • whiteboards continue to be used in very teacher-directed, didactic learning settings
  • I’d like to see all our schools proactively plan and implement sustainable one-to-one laptop learning initiatives.
  • I am quite tired of seeing so many teachers continue to persist in 19th century styles of teaching using 21st century tools.
  • As Marco Torres says, if teachers are still just asking kids to read pages 1 - 20 and answer questions 1 - 10 from the textbook, but now doing it with a flashy electronic whiteboard instead of a chalkboard or overhead projector, technology dollars have just been WASTED.
  • Smartboards are fun to use and often represent “low hanging fruit” for school board members as well as administrators who want to find visible ways to show the public “we support technology use in our schools” but at the same time minimize the potentially disruptive impact of those technologies on the traditional teaching and learning paradigm.
  • beth gourley on 04 Aug 08
     
    In summary, Wesley states that Smartboard is now requiring installation keys. Previously they had not and it was one reason why folks opted for Smartboard over Promethian. There are rumors that Promethian may not require serial numbers for Promethian downloads, but it does not seem to be the case for the author. He further goes on to say...
Tod Baker

The Flip - Worth the Hassle | Life Long Learning! - 0 views

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flip imovie mac tools

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  • Tod Baker on 10 Aug 08
     
    Flip for Mac
Tod Baker

VoiceThread - Digital Library - 0 views

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collaboration tools voicethread music grade2 english

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  • Tod Baker on 19 Jul 09
     
    This is a collaborative VT from three different classes across the United States (2nd graders from Utah, 9th grade English students from Colorado, and 5th-6th grade music composition students from Texas). This VT is an example of the power of collaboration using technology. This encompasses art through words, visuals, and music.
Tod Baker

Essentials for the "Wired" Teacher - 0 views

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tools 21stcenturyskills socialbookmarking rss google diigo blogging

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  • Tod Baker on 09 Aug 09
     
    Master Google: OK, we all use it, but make sure you know how to search like a pro. Here are a few ideas that will really help: 1. Make a custom RSS feed. First, search a topic, click "news" then "sort by date" then click "RSS" on the bottom left. Copy and paste the new url in your RSS aggregator (like Google Reader). 2. Limit searches by domain or geographical origin. After your search terms, type "site:" search followed by either domains ("org" or "edu") to search for only those sites OR use a country's two-letter code to return news items only from that country. 3. Use the "options" feature after a search. This will give you access to valuable applications such as the "Wonder wheel" or "Timeline." Try it! These are just a couple of the many hidden search features that Google offers.
Tod Baker

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

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epals elearning collaboration

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.
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