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Michelle Krill

Media Cloud - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.
L Butler

Social Media and Student Engagement | Pearson Blog - 0 views

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shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The article – “Teachers Embrace Social Media in Class” – describes the divide in college faculty perspectives on social media. One side sees social media as a distraction negatively impacting student engagement (and mentions one institution who blocked access to social sites for a week) and the other sees social media as a tool to reach students where they are and focus them in on the learning process.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Which side are you?
  • In 2011, college faculty shared which social media are most valuable to them in teaching, with online video as most valuable and Twitter as least valuable.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      The survey was for college professors, do you think the data would be the same for teachers in your building?
anonymous

The World of Social Media 2011 - VideoInfographs.com - YouTube - 0 views

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social media

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  • anonymous on 01 Dec 11
     
    Interesting video with some fascinating data about Social Media. Shared today on Twitter (social media) by @amjohnston. (NOTE: The original tweet was in French, but the Translate feature in Tweetdeck allowed me to translate it.)
Lisa Keeley

Podcast323: R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy Guideline? (NECC09 ... - 0 views

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social media guideline

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  • Teachers who must hide their online activity because of nonexistent social media guidelines risk losing their jobs and reputations. A better approach is to collaboratively develop a policy that is acceptable to administrators, school board members, teachers and parents allowing for involvement in the global conversation in which many are contributing.
    • Vicki Barr
      Vicki Barr on 27 Jul 09
       
      Isn't this what we are talking about in class?
  • Lisa Keeley on 27 Jul 09
     
    Social Media Policy Guidelines
Ryan Donnelly

Edudemic | Social Media & Schools | Scoop.it - 1 views

www.scoop.it/...social-media-schools

web2.0 social media schools

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  • Ryan Donnelly on 04 Aug 12
     
    Great compilation of online articles about using social media in the classroom. As an added bonus, it is laid out using a gorgeous Web 2.0 Magazine creator: scoop.it. 
Melissa Wilson

Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 10 views

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  • By Nicholas Carr
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 13 Jun 12
       
      Nicholas Carr also wrote The Shallows an entire book about the effect the Internet is having on our brains - I highly recommend it. http://www.theshallowsbook.com/
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I know that we used online sources mainly for my Bachelor Senior Thesis compared to going through stacks of books and papers in the library. Google has made research a lot quicker for all of us.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I can relate. I have the Google application on my phone which I use almost daily to check something such as a bus schedule, movie time, game score, etc.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I am the same way on my phone. On car rides, dinner, you name it with my wife and one of us will say, "I wonder..." and the phones are out and we're finding answers.  Sometimes I want to just wonder though...
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    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I would be interested to see a study done like this in the United States. In my one undergraduate class on politics and media we talked about "info snacking" which is the idea that people look for small bits of information at a time instead of reading the entire article. This is exactly what Carr is talking about here.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I agree Charles. However I would suggest that I think that people will have to develop a way to info. snack and be able to do conventional reading too. It seems as though there is something lost when all you are able to do is skim and scan. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      The other thing that I wonder quite a bit about this entire article is does "info snacking" stem from the internet or does it stem from being a generation that was raised on frequent tv, video, video games, and the internet altogether. It would seem to me that those other factors would have to have something to do with it as well. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      Let's also not forget the constant stream of data to our mobile device(s) as well when thinking about that.  Should this make us better, not worse, at multi-tasking. 
  • ity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. Th
  • sortium
  • that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activ
  • As part of the five-year research program, the scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popular research sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational co
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      This is the point I read until I got distracted. The ads on the side are distracting to me, and I also needed to get going because of the time.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      I am finding the sticky notes to be distracting. I keep skipping from the article to the notes.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      That is a very good point. I personally find it easier to read articles on paper instead of the computer screen because there are less distractions.
  • My mind would
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      My mind wandered off here, because of the picture to the side. 'I was thinking I wonder if this is the author?' and then I saw the caption and thought, "I wonder what those words are?"
  • Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      A friend of mine and I are going to soon put this to the test by reading the Infinite Jest, which is a very long read if you are unfamiliar with the book. I anticipate it being a difficult task. I wonder if it would have been less difficult before the net.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      What a good analogy. Before when you swam and simmered in the information and had to take time to digest, now we can just move from one thing to another quickly. 
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Do you feel that this style allows for anything further than "In one ear, out the other"? How do you best capture the features of the web?
  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
  • “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.”
  • Nietzsche’s friends, a composer
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      Wagner, I believe. 
  • Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I wonder if Nietzsche would think of the Internet as Good or Evil, or even if he would consider it being part of the Overman. 
  • The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall of silicon memory,” Wired’s Clive Thompson has written , “can be an enormous boon to thinking.” But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      This segment pretty much summarizes that Carr believes that we are losing our ability to sustain deep cognitive thought. He acknowledges the tremendous benefit of the internet, but cautions that it might be coming at a price...that we have yet to fully realize.
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      Carr's argument is that although we are perhaps reading more than ever...due to text messaging, social media sites, etc we are not taking the time to really delve into what we read and contemplate. Moreover, this premise seems plausible to a degree, as it seems generally that much of what is sent through social media may be trival or meaningless information.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      Although I didn't read it (how appropriate - LOL = ) ) Carr's book on "The Shallows" alludes to this concept...in that our brains may in fact be coming re-wired, due to the common every day distractions that cause us to lose focus on thought-provoking topics. His argument is that the collective human attention span is becoming reduced, essentially due to our environment of perpetual distraction- spawned by the internet.
  • With the approval of Midvale’s owners, he recruited a group of factory hands, set them to work on various metalworking machines, and recorded and timed their every movement as well as the operations of the machines. By breaking down every job into a sequence of small, discrete steps and then testing different ways of performing each one, Taylor created a set of precise instructions—an “algorithm,” we might say today—for how each worker should work. Midvale’s employees grumbled about the strict new regime, claiming that it turned them into little more than automatons, but the factory’s productivity soared.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      I enjoyed learning of this story. Personally, i'm always looking for ways to be more highly efficient when I observe human systems or partake in a job or task sequence. Taylor obviously laid much of the ground work for "industrial efficiency."
  • The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      I believe this segment is akin to "data mining" where companies look at human tendancies to advertise and create greater opportunities to feature their products by the locations (physically or virtually) of their prospective customers, clients or buyers. This idea (data mining) is relatively new to me, but there is no doubt that it will be a prevalent part of marketing in the future. During the reading of this article I received 5 text messages (responded to 2), but was disciplined enough not to check my email until I was finished. What portion of today's younger generation is disciplined enough to stay on task...until an assignment is completed?!?
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      This paragraph lost my attention.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      If adults are noticing a change in reading attitude, what about children who have grown up with the internet?
  • We can expect as well that the circuits woven by ou
  • r use of the Net will be different from those woven by our reading of books and other printed works.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      I never really thought about this. Our brains are adapting to the net earlier than ever before now thanks to web tools that are being implemented earlier in the classroom. I do not remember using computers on an active basis to at least fourth grade, and I know they are starting much earlier with them.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      It is much easier to type things out because of time and speed. I think this could be a good and bad thing. I don't remember the last time I wrote out by hand a letter or something long.
  • tual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating “like clockwork.” Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating “like computers.
  • al of Gutenberg’s printing press, in the 15th century, set off another round of teeth gnashing. The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectua
  • manist H
  • laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      The world would be so different without all of the great technology advances. I think back to when I had my first cell phone and it became easier to stay connected with my friends through phone calls, and now with smart phones we can be connected to the world at all times. Some people may fear change, but I think it is good to embrace it.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      Overall, I do not think Google is making us stupid. I think it is our society as a whole has become so fast paced, and we need information quicker so online resources are the first thing we go to. I think as long educators keep students focused on analyzing and deep thought, we won't let Google or other web tools make our society less intelligent. 
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      The idea of not being able to sustain attention to a lengthy article or book makes me think about how difficult it is more and more kids to sustain attention to tasks in class. It seems to get worse as the years go by and I feel like more and more kids are being diagnosed with ADD. Perhaps that type of attending "problem" is going to be the norm.
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      This is the point where I scrolled down to see how much further I have to read and thought "I don't think I can make it!"
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      I find this to be very true in the computer age as well. It is so easy to type something and change it multiple times now. I wonder if we actually give as much thought to what we are typing as we once did when changing a line meant getting a new piece of paper and starting over causing minutes or hours of extra work rather than seconds.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      I would agree with this statement. I feel that as I have gone through my education, I was taught all of the skills to read and analyze appropriately. Now that I have mastered those skills, I am only expected to recall information. If I can gather the information in a quicker/more efficent way, I will use it. But am I really learning?
  • The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      The question is, what skill do we focus our teaching on? Locating and accessing, or not being able to cover as much information but analyzing it further?
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      I find myself struggling to make it all the way through a longer blog post or video file. I need quicker gratification. Books are quickly sliding out of the picture
  • I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has change
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      The skimming strategy gives students the false sense that they are really reading. Actually, they are just finding the words that they know in a story and piece the parts they understand together.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      At this point in the reading, I have found myself loosing focus on the article
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Even when I have full intentions, I find myself bookmarking more pages and never end up actually going back and exploring them.
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      Interesting, I didn't realize that reading wasn't a natural skill. Does that explain why some people have so much trouble becoming good readers.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      The internet has certainly taken over my life. When the internet goes down at school I find myself thinking, "Now how am I going to teach."
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Although it is a different language, I am intrigued that the Chinese process of reading follows a different neural path than the English language
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 21 Jun 12
       
      This sounds very similar to the grumbling I hear from teachers when they complain that standardized tests are taking all of the creativity out of teaching. Interesting that the complaints started so long ago.
Michelle Krill

Yodio - Add voice to photos - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio's free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It's made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.
Beth Hartranft

9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media - 1 views

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  • Beth Hartranft on 15 Dec 09
     
    "Pioneer presenters are using social media to engage their audience and extend the reach of their ideas. Twitter, Facebook, and numerous custom online tools allow presenters to create a backchannel for their audience's ideas and feedback. This two-way engagement can enrich the audience's understanding as well as the presenter's effectiveness."
Geneva Reeder

WebTools4u2use - Webtools4U2Use - 0 views

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web2.0 resources

shared by Geneva Reeder on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Geneva Reeder on 07 Jul 11
     
    "The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them."
Michelle Krill

Digital Bytes | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 08 Jun 15
     
    "Digital Bytes teaches teens digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities that tackle real-world dilemmas. Teens learn from the experiences of their peers then create collaborative projects that voice their ideas for making smart, safe choices online."
  • Michelle Krill on 08 Jun 15
     
    This is a great resource for use with students.
anonymous

Mental Health Break: Social Media Addiction - All Tech Considered - Technology News And... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 24 Aug 09
     
    This is FUNNY! Social Media addiction. ROFL!
Jeff Rothenberger

ISTE | NETS for Students 2007 - 0 views

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Food Classroom technology NETS 21stcenturyskills

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  • Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:   a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 22 Jun 09
       
      Does this sound familiar? Collaboration? Which group read that in the Horizon Report?
    • Scott Brewer
      Scott Brewer on 23 Jun 09
       
      Project teams sounds like something I would love to be a part of, and my students to be a part of!
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 23 Jun 09
       
      @Jim- Yes, this does sound familiar. I served on a tech steering committee this spring and that is how I learned of these standards. Not sure the school board knows of them though.
    • Emma Clouser
      Emma Clouser on 23 Jun 09
       
      Seems like using diigo would help us meet these standards:)
    • Emily Reinert
      Emily Reinert on 23 Jun 09
       
      I think letter C is fascinating - until yesterday, I hadn't thought about students communicating with other students around the WORLD.
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 23 Jun 09
       
      Before I had this class I didn't think Distance Learning was important, but when asked if I thought the district should get a set up for our elementary school, I said yes, since why say no! I hope we get it now because I will be able to use it with the knowledge I am gaining this week. Very cool!
    • Beth Hartranft
      Beth Hartranft on 23 Jun 09
       
      thoughts for 2.b. - We need to teach more than just office products!
    • Amy Soule
      Amy Soule on 23 Jun 09
       
      Should they be allowed to text each other during class? That's communication, using one of their favorite formats!
    • Mary Richards
      Mary Richards on 23 Jun 09
       
      This is particularly apt for middle school students who are very, very social! They love working in groups and do a better job of holding each other accountable than I do!
    • Emma Clouser
      Emma Clouser on 20 Jul 09
       
      ISTE Educational Technology Standards for Students
  • a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. d. identify trends and forecast possibilities
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  • Students demonstrate creative thinking
  • Scott Brewer on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
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  • Mrs Huber on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
  • Emily Reinert on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
  • anonymous on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
  • Beth Hartranft on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
  • Amy Soule on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
  • Mary Richards on 23 Jun 09
     
    Do YOU know that NETS-S for your students? Is ANYONE in your school addressing these?
Ryan Donnelly

Infographic: Social Media Statistics For 2012 | Digital Buzz Blog - 0 views

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    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 25 Jul 12
       
      I find the fact that there are 800 million Facebook users to be a little bit disturbing. It's like something out of a science fiction novel where we are all hooked up to a apperat 24.7 pumping data through a stream. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 25 Jul 12
       
      All this even though I am one of those 800 million, at least at this point. 
Michelle Krill

DocsTeach - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 20 Jul 15
     
    The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore thousands of documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities that students can access over the internet.
Michelle Krill

Pixton™ - Create web comic strips online - 0 views

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comic comics animation web2tool

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    ixton™ is a social media website where you create comics − without having to draw. People of all ages can share, remix, and publish their ideas, opinions, and stories to a worldwide audience. Sign up, it's free!
Michelle Krill

Nota : Casual Collaboration - 0 views

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collaboration mashup whiteboard web2tool interactive presentation

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.
Michelle Krill

EduDemic » Every Teacher's Must-Have Guide To Facebook - 1 views

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facebook socialnetworking caution

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  • Michelle Krill on 24 Jun 10
     
    "You can't swing a stick in social media without hitting something on Facebook. Same goes for education. You can't talk about how technology is revolutionizing education without mentioning Facebook. It's a simple service to figure out but what about once you become a regular user? If you're a teacher, you would be well served by spending 3 minutes to read through this must-have guide. "
Beth Hartranft

The Show Must Go On - 1 views

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copyright fairuse

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  • “who learned more, my students or yours?” 
  • Beth Hartranft on 08 Dec 09
     
    Great article on fairuse and media in the classroom. ""who learned more, my students or yours?" " - Love this quote
  • Beth Hartranft on 08 Dec 09
     
    I love this quote.
N Butler

The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views

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  • Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.
  • Social media, I think it's a fad. I think it will not have lasting value as a search medium. I think that there's a lot of focus on searching Facebook and searching Twitter and things like that. I just don't see it. I see lots and lots of problems with that," he said.
  • Social media, I think it's a fad. I think it will not have lasting value as a search medium. I think that there's a lot of focus on searching Facebook and searching Twitter and things like that. I just don't see it. I see lots and lots of problems with that," he said.
    • N Butler
      N Butler on 27 Sep 09
       
      He is kidding....right?
  • N Butler on 27 Sep 09
     
    Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.
  • N Butler on 27 Sep 09
     
    Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.
anonymous

Education Week: Filtering Fixes - 0 views

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  • Instead of blocking the many exit ramps and side routes on the information superhighway, they have decided that educating students and teachers on how to navigate the Internet’s vast resources responsibly, safely, and productively—and setting clear rules and expectations for doing so—is the best way to head off online collisions.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      This is nothing new, but it seems this is one of the VERY few districts that puts its filter where its mouth is.
  • “We are known in our district for technology, so I don’t see how you can teach kids 21st-century values if you’re not teaching them digital citizenship and appropriate ways of sharing and using everything that’s available on the Web,” said Shawn Nutting, the technology director for the Trussville district. “How can you, in 2009, not use the Internet for everything? It blows me away that all these schools block things out” that are valuable.
  • While schools are required by federal and state laws to block pornography and other content that poses a danger to minors, Internet-filtering software often prevents students from accessing information on legitimate topics that tend to get caught in the censoring process: think breast cancer, sexuality, or even innocuous keywords that sound like blocked terms. One teacher who commented on one of Mr. Fryer’s blog posts, for example, complained that a search for biographical information on a person named Thacker was caught by his school’s Internet filter because the prohibited term “hacker” is included within the spelling of the word.
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  • The K-2 school provides e-mail addresses to each of its 880 students and maintains accounts on the Facebook and Twitter networking sites. Children can also interact with peers in other schools and across the country through protected wiki spaces and blogs the school has set up.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      We find it hard to even imagine this, don't we?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      the entire approach to filtering is based on this sentence, isn't it?
  • “Rather than saying this is a scary tool and something bad could happen, instead we believe it’s an incredible tool that connects you with the entire world out there. ... [L]et’s show you the best way to use it.”
  • As Trussville students move through the grades and encounter more-complex educational content and expectations, their Internet access is incrementally expanded.
  • In 2001, the Children’s Internet Protection Act instituted new requirements for schools to establish policies and safeguards for Internet use as a condition of receiving federal E-rate funding. Many districts have responded by restricting any potentially troublesome sites. But many educators and media specialists complain that the filters are set too broadly and cannot discriminate between good and bad content. Drawing the line between what material is acceptable and what’s not is a local decision that has to take into account each district’s comfort level with using Internet content
  • The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tennesee’s Knox County and Nashville school districts on behalf of several students and a school librarian for blocking Internet sites related to gay and lesbian issues. While the districts’ filtering software prohibited students from accessing sites that provided information and resources on the subject, it did not block sites run by organizations that promoted the controversial view that homosexuals can be “rehabilitated” and become heterosexuals. Last month, a federal court dismissed the lawsuit after school officials agreed to unblock the sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      Hmmm - a lawsuit? And the Assistant Sec of Education didn't understand what I meant when I suggested that lawsuits control decisions and guide curriculum.
  • Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assignments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, the survey found. Administrators generally cite safety issues and concerns that students will misuse such tools to dawdle, cheat, or view inappropriate content in school as reasons for not offering more open online access to students. ("Students See Schools Inhibiting Their Use of New Technologies,", April 1, 2009.)
  • A report commissioned by the NSBA found that social networking can be beneficial to students, and urged school board members to “find ways to harness the educational value” of so-called Web 2.0 tools, such as setting up chat rooms or online journals that allow students to collaborate on their classwork. The 2007 report also told school boards to re-evaluate policies that ban or tightly restrict the use of the Internet or social-networking sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      YES!! What do you think?
  • Federal Requirements for Schools on Internet Safety The Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, is a federal law intended to block access to offensive Web content on school and library computers. Under CIPA, schools and libraries that receive funding through the federal E-rate program for Internet access must: • Have an Internet-safety policy and technology-protection measures in place. The policy must include measures to block or filter Internet access to obscene photos, child pornography, and other images that can be harmful to minors; • Educate minors about appropriate and inappropriate online behavior, including activities like cyberbullying and social networking; • Adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors; and • Adopt and implement policies related to Internet use by minors that address access to inappropriate online materials, student safety and privacy issues, and the hacking of unauthorized sites. Source: Federal Communications Commission
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      This is the Act that schools cite when giving reasons for blocking what they do. Can you justify it from this? Granted, it's not the coplete law, but they sure do use this to justify everything.
  • “We believe that you can’t have goals about kids’ collaborating globally and then block their ability to do that,” said Becky Fisher, the Virginia district’s technology coordinator.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      Hear! Hear!
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