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Essentials for the "Wired" Teacher - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 09 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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.
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VoiceThread - Digital Library - 0 views

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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.
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100 Helpful Websites for New Teachers | Teaching Degree.org - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 11 Jul 09
     
    The following websites are loaded with helpful information that new teachers will appreciate. Valuable for experienced teachers as well.
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IB Selects ePals To Host Online Learning Community -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • 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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Panel Discussion on The Future of Books and Reading - The Future of Education - 0 views

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shared by Tod Baker on 17 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Tod Baker on 17 Jun 09
     
    There are dramatic changes taking place that seem likely to change our experiences with books and reading. They include: pre-publication "wikified" collaboration, electronic delivery, open licensing, increased author-reader and reader-reader conversation, shared annotations, and more. Join this amazing panel as we peer into the near and long-term future of the reading experience.
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Our Online ESL Classroom - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 26 May 09
     
    Welcome 5th Graders! Let's Chat! has discussions, VoiceThreads, podcasts, pics, and more
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Asian Region Educational Technology May Update - 0 views

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  • There is no doubt that Wes is going to give you a lot to think about both in the keynotes and the follow up sessions that he will share with us.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 09 May 09
       
      Friendly, knowledgable, informative. Can share info about details like mic choices for podcasts and big picture ideas like copy right in the classroom and beyond.
  • Inquiry based learning with technology to laptop programs to cybersafety.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 09 May 09
       
      The three big ones! That's what I like to learn about.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 09 May 09
       
      under construction
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  • http://www.cybersafeworld.com/
  • What a lot of people probably don't know is that then, perhaps as now, laptop vendors knew very little about the needs of teachers and students.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 09 May 09
       
      We can find those that know what we need. There are enough that we can stay away from vendors who don't know what schools need.
  • Today Bruce has stepped out of this role and now consults in many parts of the world on 1:1 computing.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 09 May 09
       
      Need to sit down with this guy.
  • http://www.aalf.org/
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 09 May 09
       
      Glad I found this. Looks like a great resource for 1-to-1 laptop programs.
  • Tod Baker on 09 May 09
     
    Organisation for the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference is progressing well behind the scenes. Some of the original invited speakers have been reconfirmed whilst others have now been replaced.
  • Tod Baker on 09 May 09
     
    Somebody should attend this conference.
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Top News - Study: Ed tech leads to significant gains - 0 views

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  • The study determined that student achievement can really soar if a teacher has 10 or more years of teaching experience, has been using the technology for two or more years, has high confidence in his or her ability to use the ActivClassroom suite, and uses it 75 to 80 percent of the time in the classroom.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 24 Apr 09
       
      Keep in mind when measuring effectiveness.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 24 Apr 09
       
      We've been using Activclassroom for 1 year. Questions How confident are we with ActivClassroom? How often do we use it in the classrooms?
  • because it's no small capital investment.
    • Tod Baker
      Tod Baker on 24 Apr 09
       
      14,000 RMB each (w/out digital projector)
  • Tod Baker on 24 Apr 09
     
    Integrating Promethean's ActivClassroom--a suite of educational technologies that includes an interactive whiteboard, teaching software, and student response systems--into instruction can raise student achievement by an average of 17 percentile points,
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"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.
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Flickr: Will Lion's Photostream - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 14 Mar 09
     
    Great collection of images with messages.
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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.
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Online Harrassment: How to Stay Safe Online - 0 views

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    archived webinar
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Digital Citizenship for Parents - 0 views

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

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  • 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 :
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Tame The Web » Blog Archive » Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 01 Feb 09
     
    This year, I'm focusing on some ideas and technologies that I believe will impact everyone. These things will surely influence library users and nonusers alike. My biggest concern is how can libraries respond in turbulent economic times. So, here goes. In 2009, librarians, information professionals and libraries will be touched by:
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Educational Leadership:Data: Now What?:What Research Says About / Collaborative Inquiry - 0 views

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  • What Research Says About / Collaborative Inquiry
  • systematic, collaborative work will increase student learning
  • In their study of nine high schools, Ingram, Louis, and Schroeder (2004) report that teachers are more likely to collect and use data systematically when working as a group. When working by themselves, teachers tend to rely on anecdotes and intuition.
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  • Student work products or individual teachers' formative assessments are more relevant to instructional practices than standardized test scores
  • leadership and norms that support collaboration and data use
  • sufficient chunks of time to meet, training in inquiry skills, protocols to guide data collection and discussion, and a skilled facilitator to keep the agenda focused
  • Collaborative inquiry is among the most promising strategies for strengthening teaching and learning. At the same time, it may be one of the most difficult to implement.
  • beth gourley on 11 Jan 09
     
    Teachers can make better use of data when they work together than when they go it alone. But creating the conditions for such collaboration is a tall order.
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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 10 Jan 09
     
    As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.
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Welcome to WiTopia >> Where Freedom and Security Meet - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 09 Jan 09
     
    Complete anonymity and data security through SSL-VPN technology. Can be used ANYWHERE over any wireless or wired network.
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School Change Consulting - Rigor Redefined - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 08 Jan 09
     
    In the new global economy, with many jobs being either automated or "off-shored," what skills will students need to build successful careers? What skills will they need to be good citizens? Are these two education goals in conflict?
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Building a Digital Locker: Personal Learning Networks Explained | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Tod Baker on 08 Jan 09
     
    Breaking news happens daily in my classroom, where I've taught my students how to be in the know. The students gain this ability when they construct their personal learning network (PLN) at the start of each project.
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