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Melissa Seifman

Digital Education: Web 2.0: Are School Principals Falling Behind? - 0 views

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web2.0 socialnetworking education

shared by Melissa Seifman on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Unless keeping up with tech trends is made a high priority by the administrator, I can see how keeping up with it all would quickly fall by the wayside because of other, more important priorities
  • I do think that principals should keep up with technology mainly because luddite principals cannot possibly show the value of technology applications in the classroom if they are so deskilled themselves
  • Administrators could subscribe to one useful blog, such as Instructify, http://blogs.learnnc.org/instructify, and read it on a regular basis. In today's day and age it's easy to access information quickly
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  • more services that are provided as open source/free, since they are quickly becoming a necessity in the online world to exchange information and ideas.
  • The most important thing to teach a student is the desire to learn and discover. With that they can become a better learner. WHY?--because they are truly engaged as they are learning, researching, etc.
  • I find it more important to teach a student how to learn efficiently
  • the intelligent use of technology
  • It's not the same world anymore, and fighting it is only stealing opportunities away from our children. They need to learn what will help them succeed, not learn what we learned because we want them to be like us
    • Melissa Seifman
      Melissa Seifman on 15 Apr 09
       
      We are all aware these are not 'quick fix super tools' where the studenst will become instantly bright. But if it's a technology the students can use to problem solve, research, collaborate as if they were in the 'real' world, we are doing them a disservice by not teaching them how to use them intelligently, and giving them opportunities to do so.
  • By learning how to get the answers for something they already care about finding the answers to, they'll have the tools to do research for their paper when it occurs to them that it's time to do what they "gotta do" and complete their paper on time.
  • Melissa Seifman on 15 Apr 09
     
    Katie Ash is a writer and Web producer for Digital Directions and a co-author of Education Week's "Motivation Matters" blog. Kathleen Kennedy Manzo has been covering curriculum and standards for Education Week since 1996, including federal, state, and local policies, instructional materials, and teaching practices.
Melissa Seifman

Motika's Home Page - 0 views

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blogs

shared by Melissa Seifman on 17 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Seifman on 17 Feb 09
     
    A blog by an educator that demonstrates instead of tells how to use a blog in your classroom
Melissa Seifman

Using Read/Write Web to build a fact sheet - 0 views

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Web2.0 Tutorial Research

shared by Melissa Seifman on 13 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method?
  • we'll walk you through how we identify top blogs on any topic, how we quickly figure out what their most popular recent posts have been about, how we incorporate their blog archives into our knowledge about the field and how we find where else they are participating in conversation around the web
  • Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field
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  • Add The Feeds to a Reader
  • Pull Out Your New Tab's Feeds
  • The Top of the OPML File.
  • Now to Find the Hottest Posts from Those Top Blogs
  • Rank the Blog Posts With Robots!
Melissa Seifman

Blogs for Learning | Articles - - 0 views

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blogs Web2.0

shared by Melissa Seifman on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Seifman on 14 Jan 09
     
    Great article with practical suggestions for Blogging in a classroom
Melissa Seifman

ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education - 0 views

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educationaltools web2.0

shared by Melissa Seifman on 13 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Seifman on 13 Mar 09
     
    Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
Melissa Seifman

Thoughts on Assessment | blog of proximal development - 0 views

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Literacy

shared by Melissa Seifman on 06 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The student participants in my study engaged in writing and reading through a variety of complex and rich interactions. They posted their own work on their blogs, commented on the work of their peers, linked to each other’s work, and initiated numerous conversations in the class blogosphere.
  • the students would not respond well to a teacher who enters the class blogosphere only to assign work or to evaluate their writing.
  • Only two days after I asked the students to compose a written response to the work we had covered, they began to use their blogs not only to brainstorm but also to request feedback from their peers and engage them in discussions about the work they were doing for this assignment
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  • - the students had turned to the community of their peers to request feedback. Then, I realized that none of the children asked me for feedback. It didn’t take long to realize that, a) they didn’t see me as a contributor in the community, and b) they associated me with corrections and grades.
  • . But this experience helped me realize that we don’t spend enough time providing feedback for our students and that most of what teachers consider teaching and assessment consists of marking and correcting student work. This kind of practice does not engage our students in those rich interactive processes of talking about their work and their ideas.
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Read The Words - 0 views

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web2.0 educationaltools specialneeds

shared by Melissa Seifman on 12 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Seifman on 12 Mar 09
     
    Upload MS Word, PDF, web, any text, and listen to your Reading Online. Download mp3 to your Ipod, Post Your Reading in Website or Blog, Turn Your Reading into a Podcast, Enable Multi-tasking. It Saves Time, goes anywhere, Improve Comprehension, and great for audio learners
Melissa Seifman

K12 Online Conference 2008 | Prove It "Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Lear... - 0 views

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shared by Melissa Seifman on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Seifman on 09 Apr 09
     
    powerful argument for using wiki's and blogs for educational role play. Includes examples
Melissa Seifman

When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web - 0 views

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socialnetworking teachers privacy

shared by Melissa Seifman on 18 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Do the risque pages matter if teacher performance is not hindered and if students, parents and school officials don't see them? At what point are these young teachers judged by the standards for public officials?
    • Melissa Seifman
      Melissa Seifman on 18 Nov 08
       
      I think this is a valid question to ask, especially if the school is developing a policy to cover use of social networking if their school is represented
  • "I know that employers will look at that page, and I need to be more careful," said Webster, adding that other Prince William teachers have warned her about her page. "At the same time, my work and social lives are completely separate. I just feel they shouldn't take it seriously. I am young. I just turned 22."
    • Melissa Seifman
      Melissa Seifman on 18 Nov 08
       
      Hmm... then the wise decision would be to have a work and a social site that are also completely separate....
  • Local school officials say they have no policies concerning social networking pages or blogs kept by teachers. But they said that online improprieties would fall under general guidelines requiring proper behavior in and outside school and that sketchy Web sites would be handled case by case.
    • Melissa Seifman
      Melissa Seifman on 18 Nov 08
       
      I'm not sure that's enough. In this new digital age, the virtual identies established by social networking sites, gaming sites, and so one, should conform to some kind of code of conduct established by the school - similar to the code of conduct established by IMB at http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/virtualworlds.IBMVirtualWorldGuidelines.html. I think each school should be including something similar in their guidelines for both teachers and students, especially if their school is going to be mentioned in any way on these sites...
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  • Teachers caught with inappropriate Web sites could get a suspension for a first-time offense, said Michael Simpson, assistant general counsel for the National Education Association, a teachers union with more than 3 million members. If they can prove that no one at school complained about the page, then they might prevail in a personnel dispute "because there would be no evidence of any real or potential harm to the students or school," he said.
    • Melissa Seifman
      Melissa Seifman on 18 Nov 08
       
      If they can prove no one complained about the page then they MIGHT prevail in a personnel dispute. Again, I go back to my previous comment - clarify the policies for what is appropriate/inappropriate in this new digital age. Teachers are people who are entitled to a social life - if their social life in no way references the school, workplace, job, etc. - why hold them accountable? And - if the teacher truly feels that posting such things on their social site is acceptable, then they should be very careful to make that site private or someone keep others from clearly recognizing the teacher as associated with that school..
  • Melissa Seifman on 18 Nov 08
     
    Interesting read for this new virtual world. What are your comments?
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