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Janet Swistock

Thinking Machine / Think Social Networking for Education - 1 views

  • National School Boards' Assocation says that Social Networking technologies should be adapted for use in the classroom.
    • Andrew Tucker
       
      These facts are very interesting and I had no idea that this was the case! These statistics prove that we, as teaching professionals, cannot ignore the impact that social networking has on the kids that we will be teaching. They are going to be using these tools and using them a lot, so we should reach them on their level.
    • Daphne O'Donnell
       
      I'm surprised by the fact of 50% of students talk online about hw. Honestly, I thought it would be less than that.
  • Facebook - a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
    • Andrew Tucker
       
      Everyone knows my love of Facebook by now. I really think Facebook can be used in so many ways: groups, posting school work as statuses, posting links to websites and articles that can be used and shared, etc.
    • Lesley Maurer
       
      Facebook is such a widely used social networking tool, I think you would be very hard-pressed to find someone who does not know how to use it. Kids can be steered in the direction of using it for educational and introspection purposes which they probably didn't consider. I love the idea of creating a page for a book character.
    • Daphne O'Donnell
       
      Andrew, I like Facebook too. And I think that students and adults alike figure out how to use it with ease. I just worry about the over exposure for younger students, for instance the advertisements and so on.
    • Victoria Steele
       
      I think there is a ton of potential for Facebook to be used in the classroom but like Daphne said, could it lead to overexposure or to unwanted sites/people/ideas that are out there? Maybe somehow setting up very private settings would work best for teacher-student collaboration.
  • Twitter 4 Teachers wiki
    • Andrew Tucker
       
      Very helpful site that expands upon many of the things that we have been talking about! 
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    • Janet Swistock
       
      Video with quick flashes of information to get you thinking about the future of education and the world.
    • Janet Swistock
       
      Hard to include Club Penguin as a social networking site. My daughters used it when they were little and were more interested in the game than the limited networking aspect.
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    Wiki based on statistics and information supporting use of social networking, and internet use in education. Although a little dated (2006) it's clear to see how things have progressed as expected through today. "Did you know 2.0" is a video worth the time.
Karen Kohn

Miss Night's Marbles: I heard them say, love is the way - 0 views

  • a virtual exchange between our class, and a partner class overseas. For my 20 Canadian munchkins, we found a partner group in East Borneo, Indonesia. Both classes have created an imaginary friend, who attends our partner school. (For the curious, our imaginary friend is a little girl named Ella. She is 6 years old, she has blond hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Her gender and name were decided by vote. Her age and appearance were drawn at random.) We use Twitter to ask research questions of our partners, and the answers allow us to write stories documenting our imaginary friend's experience in another country. Each child has a journal for the project, where they record things they have learned. It being kindergarten, the recording mostly takes the form of drawings. The children dictate text to go with their drawings, and then copy that text onto their pages. We are working on a Prezi presentation to share our learning with parents and other classes. We have made a video to teach our "Indonesia friends" about snow and how to get dressed for recess when it is very cold. When my team conceived of this project, I knew it was going to be cool. As mentioned in my previous post about Twitter in kindergarten, I love love LOVE that my students are building real connections with other children their own age. This project brought it to another level, by pushing them to imagine themselves in a completely different setting. (As we graph the often FIFTY degree difference in our daily temperatures, I often imagine MYSELF in a completely different setting, too!) I knew that this project was going to take us in unexpected directions, and there is no doubt that it has.
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    This is a great example of why Social Networking in the classroom works. Please visit this blog post. Miss Night, along with her fellow Kindergarten teachers in her school in Canada use social networking to communicate with another class in Indonesia. Night has come up with many lessons using the information the students gathered from their friends in Indonesia. Her students have learned so much from this contact and have even surprised her with some of their comments and questions. This has given me so many ideas! READ THE POST.
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    I also read this blog a few days ago. It is so inspirational! It really shows how even kindergarten students can participate in a social network with the help of their teacher.
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    I can't get over what a leap it is that teachers can communicate with classrooms in other countries. The possibilities are endless not just for learning but promoting intercultural understanding. Great post.
Karen Kohn

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal - 3 views

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    How social networking is beneficial to schools. Research shows students use social networking to talk about school work.
Karen Kohn

How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

  • How do you keep students from wasting time chatting or sneaking to inappropriate sites? You teach! You have frank discussions. You show them examples and ask them to make ethical decisions. You ask: What does it mean that fifteen-year-old kids are calling themselves nineteen and posting racy pictures online? What does it mean that college kids are posting raunchy spring break pictures that a prospective employer can find? The idea that we are the stories we tell has never been more important. Schools have always taught kids how to present themselves -- that's why we did oral presentations in the classroom. Now we need to teach them to present themselves electronically. That's why it's so scary to lock these technologies out.
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    Answers a question I'm sure is on every teacher's mind when thinking about incorporating social networking into the classroom. Teachers need to teach students how to act, write, speak, and present themselves.
Janet Swistock

Social Study Shows Social Networkgin a Boon for Education - 0 views

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    This Wiki not only offers great insight through a video included called "Did you know 2.0" but through other quotes and references. Although it's a litte dated, 2006, it's amazing how its easy to see the progression from then to now five years later.
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    Persuasive article using statistics to demonstrate the reason why we should be including social networking in our schools and for our students. Love the example of posting a paper for parents, peers and teachers to critique so students take it more seriously.
Daphne O'Donnell

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal - 2 views

    • Daphne O'Donnell
       
      I thought this was interesting because it states everything that we have learned in class. Social networking needs to be used for instruction and have a final product to demonstrate student learning.
  • If we want social networking to make a difference in instruction and learning, the medium should also be used for its publishing and production aspects, reaching higher levels of collaboration and creativity
Victoria Steele

PBS Teachers | learning.now . PBS Teachers Embraces Social Networking and Bookmarking T... - 1 views

    • Victoria Steele
       
      Allowing users to explore and search for topics based on tags is convenient and may get more people interested.
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    I was most interested in the responses from this article that are listed below the actual article. One response recommended www.fatclass.com as a social networking tool that works great in the classroom. "Andy Carvin: Internet activist, author, Edtech expert. Learning.now is a weblog that explores how new technology and Internet culture affect how educators teach and children learn. It will offer a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom."
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    I also see another response listing www.teachersrecess.com. That sounds interesting too!
Andrew Tucker

Thinking Machine / Think Social Networking for Education - 3 views

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    A great site that maps out statistics about how many kids use social networking as well as numerous social networking sites, all available on one site! An easy website to get the rundown on the importance of social networking and the tools that are out there.
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    The K and 1 teachers at my school use Club Penguin and the kids absolutely love it. There are lots of good suggestions on this site, some of which I am more familiar with than others.
Victoria Steele

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom | Online College Tips - Online ... - 1 views

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    Just an interesting article that came up when I was researching. Not sure that I would ever use Facebook in the classroom, but for all of you who may be teaching upper grades maybe this is something to consider?
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    I am amazed at how these social networking sites can be used in education. It's so challenging to my previously held ideas about what they are good for! I have no doubt that used in the classroom safely and effectively they are great in getting and keeping student's attention.
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    Facebook has been "THE" social network to stay away from in the classroom as a teacher. I recall posting back and forth with Angela about this topic as she was one of the first I saw back Facebook in the classroom. While I said everyone teaches us to be weary; just look at all the increadible uses we have for using Facebook in school. 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom is a great resource for those skeptical about incorporating it in the calssroom. I didn't even know you could create 2 Facebook's (probably because I don't even have one) but just create one for class use. Keep it private for just those in the class, and benefit from all the neat options you have to work with this form of technology. From creating polls to providing a platform for students to work and collaborate on projects; this article along with Angela's views on its uses in the classroom - have certainly changed my mind!
Kate Castle

Adapting Social Networking to Address 21st-Century Skills - Internet@Schools Magazine - 0 views

  • 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • melanie gladden
       
      This is so interesting. I think that students need to learn technology to be sucessful in their lives because technology is only going to grow, so it would be niave to think that we don't need to teach technology in schools.
  • another aspect of a social learning network is the potential to build global awareness among students.
    • melanie gladden
       
      Students could use skype to achieve this.
  • same ePals online email service
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  • communicate with them using Web 2.0 technologies (the ePals service has a language translator, helping students to communicate regularly and across cultures)
    • melanie gladden
       
      I had no thought about the language barrier as a complication. It would be interesting to see what other socail networking tools have the ability to translate.
  • Consider what tools, when implemented together in a holistic and thoughtful manner, can encourage collaboration, spark creativity, teach 21st-century skills, and address the needs and challenges of different socioeconomic environments.
  • Consider the following questions
    • Kate Castle
       
      These are five really crucial questions. I suspect too they are very different approaches to teaching than what has been typical in the past.
  • What should be encouraged is the next level of communication—collaboration.
  • what tools best fulfill the needs of each school and district’s environment
  • as many as 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • Kate Castle
       
      Students need to be aware in a different way than before. Learning is no longer a passive activity. This new interactive stance fosters the skills of judgement, insight, and collaboration that employers are looking for.
  • create, invent, and showcase their work
  • the framework suggests three overarching student outcomes, including life and career skills; learning and innovation skills; and information, media, and technology skills. Ultimately, the Partnership is advocating for educators and students to consider the implication of skills beyond the basic subject areas that are critical to success in the 21st century.
    • Kate Castle
       
      It makes me happy to see that it is obvious to people that producing a literate student involves more than teaching him or her the core subjects. Learning how to learn, meta-learning (has anyone coined that one yet?) is THE indispensable skill of the 21st century it seems. If I take nothing from this class, it will be that.
  • free, online email service for K–12
    • Kate Castle
       
      This is a cool site. Worth looking into. Connects educators who want to collaborate on classroom projects, great and interesting forums, and email accounts for kids to use for school.
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      Good to know this exists.
  • to match students with other students around the world
  • His students take part in a global newscast, featuring students from the U.S., Japan, Russia, Belize, and several other countries.
    • Kate Castle
       
      What a great idea! Very cool.
  • preparing them for working in a global marketplace
  • Educators can choose to utilize Web 2.0 tools
  • narrowing down which combination of tools would be best with the curriculum and pedagogy for the class
    • Kate Castle
       
      Each class will be unique in its abilities and needs and having knowledge of a wide varitety of tools makes teachers able to customize web tools to best serve their classrooms.
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    today's students need to be creators and collaborators, not just individual learners
Janet Swistock

New link - Study Shows Social Networking a Boon for Education - 0 views

    • Janet Swistock
       
      Note for art teachers that if students are creating work for others to critic they may take it more seriously. Especially true for those who think they aren't any good so they don't try.
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    Same comments as below. This link takes you directly to the webpage instead of through the McDaniel website.
Andrew Tucker

twitter4teachers / FrontPage - 1 views

  • This wiki was created to easily help educators connect with other educators on Twitter. Good luck finding and connecting with other educators on Twitter!
    • Andrew Tucker
       
      Bringing teachers together over Twitter! These teachers know how to use Twitter and we, as educators, can learn from them.
  • Drama Teachers
    • Andrew Tucker
       
      This site even has drama teachers! I was so impressed by this, because drama could have easily been overlooked as a class that needs networking. This says to me that this list is compiled to include everyone.
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    • Andrew Tucker
       
      This site even has a place to post comments! So many ideas can be shared, even about how to use the Twitter profile finding tools. Social networking on top of social networking.
Emily Beyer

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education | Accredited Online Colleges... - 0 views

  • EtherPad. This web-based word processor allows multiple users to work simultaneously on a document. Each person’s work is highlighted in a different color to keep everything understandable.
  • Zoho Show. Grea
  • online presentations are easy to create collaboratively with this powerful free tool.
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  • MemberHub. Up to 30 members can communicate in one place for free with this tool.
  • Yugma. The free version of this tool allows up to 20 people to web conference and is a great way for groups to connect when they can’t be in the same location.
  • drop.io. Students can share images, documents, audio and video files, and more with this tool.
  • ePals. Students can connect with other classrooms around the world with this tool that has a strict education-only focus.
  • Student.com. High school and college students can find help with school work, prepare for college admission, and socialize with other students.
  • LearnHub. LearnHub is all about education sharing and allows students to share their knowledge, find what they need to know, and even study for major standardized exams.
  • Socialtext. Get a free microblogging platform for up to 50 users to have a private Twitter-like experience in your classroom.
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    This site offers many suggestions of collaboration tools to use in the classroom. Many of the tools are geared toward college students, but I highlighted a few that seemed interesting and relevant to elementary or middle school students. Most of these tools could also be used in high school.
Janet Swistock

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education - 9 views

Love Zoho for students to work together on a presentation on a period in art history, or a study of the life and work of an artist. They could even create a group presentation with artist statement...

Sonja Boras

cooltoolsforschools - Collaborative Tools - 2 views

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    This is a great resourceful website that everyone should keep bookmarked! It has a list of over 50 links to Web 2.0 tools that are good for education with a 1-5 sentence blurb about what they are capable of and how they can be used. They are also broken down into subcategories, document sharing, discussion forums, etc. If I had a highlighter tool I would have highlighted the CollaborizeClassroom tool because I have found that very interesting and my next link gives some more description about how and why it is used.
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    Twiducate looks great! Twitter for schools. Bookmarked this site, great resources.
Sonja Boras

» Pedagogical Tool Review: Collaborize Classroom - 0 views

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    This is a review of CollaborizeClassroom, a Web2.0 tool used for student collaboration. Even though I can't highlight, I would like to point out that this tool is a "free web-based platform for facilitating and tracking discussion". EMPHASIS ON THE FREE. It is completely customizable like a blog, but allows every student to have a voice in the conversation like twitter. And it allows upload and sharing of documents, you can create question forms or forums, and organize it all in one central location. Seems very applicable for teachers and easy to use.
Victoria Steele

Listen to the Natives - 2 views

    • Ben Shipley
       
      Interesting point here: how drastic do we need to be in tailoring our teaching methods to the digital native crowd?
    • Ben Shipley
       
      I definitely agree that we should encourage our students to take part in determining some of the educational goals of the class!  "Teachers needn't master all technologies.  They should continue doing what they do best: leading discussion in the classrom."
    • Ben Shipley
       
      An interesting point: "Students could quite feasibly invent technological solutions to streamline homework submission and correction, freeing up teachers for more meaningful work."
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    • Victoria Steele
       
      For some beginning teachers, they are lucky to be "natives" but there are still challenges they face with young students who are at their level or above when it comes to using technology.
    • Victoria Steele
       
      Empathy and a candidate's overall demeanor need to be considered in the hiring process! 
    • Victoria Steele
       
      We need to get students as interested and engaged in school as they are when playing video games, etc.  We need to WORK WITH students and not work against the technology that they love in order to reach them.
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    This is an eye opening article that alerts educators to get out of their comfort zones and work with students rather than against them. As digital natives, young students might just learn best by using technology and teachers need to recognize and embrace this. There were a few ideas that I didn't fully agree with, but lots of practical points were made in this article that could help beginning teachers to make the best of their first years.
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    I read the same article and wondered what you thought about allowing students to use cell phones as a way to communicate within the classroom? Maybe from my perspective, it seems unnecessary because I will be teaching elementary students but what did you think?
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    Maybe there are already companies out there doing this, but it seems like anyone who can create video games, or online games that incorporate the Core Standards for Teaching in content areas would be filthy rich. God I wish I could write code.
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