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Warlick's CoLearners - 0 views

davidwarlick.com/...ingYourPersonalLearningNetwork Learning social Network PLN Networking
shared by Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10
     
    This blog is about setting up your own PLN. He gives a unique approach to learning what a PLN is about- the gardener's approach to learning. He also likens the approach to learning as an ecosystem, "...where I cultivate the information, directing it to interact with other information in ways that bring me the ideas that I need to keep doing my job." He lists several web links that are helpful in understanding a PLN.
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Kapp Notes: Advice to Teachers in Florida: Don't use Facebook with Students - 0 views

karlkapp.blogspot.com/...chers-in-florida-dont-use.html Learning social Network Networking
shared by Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10
     
    This blog is in response to the Lee County School District and their policy of use on Facebook with teachers and current students. The blog is well thought out with various views. The author, Karl, is a professor, consultant, speaker, scholar, and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He seems to have a good knowledge base to make his argument.
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Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--and Educational--Net... - 0 views

www.nsba.org/...41340.pdf Learning social Network research online behavior
shared by Tom Hoover on 01 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Tom Hoover on 01 Sep 10
     
    This publication is an overview of research on student use of social networking tools by the National School Boards Association in July 2007. While the recommendations to school districts about using social networking were generally positive and generic, two sets of statistics were surprising. The first dealt with the almost universal use of social networking tools by teenage students. 96% of students with internet access have used some form of social networking tool. 21% said they post comments on discussion boards every day. The second set of statistics tried to allay the concerns about student safety while using social networking tools. Only 0.08% of students have reported committing the cardinal sin on online behavior: meeting someone they met online without their parents permission.
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Librarians Who Lead - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of investing in scads of state-of-the-art computers and expensive commercially produced courseware, she says, the school district has made a remarkable investment in the high school’s human resources.
  • there was an improvement on the annual Connecticut Academic Performance Test.”
  • We have six years’ worth of analysis of annotated bibliographies, which we consider the hallmark of higher-order thinking— evaluation of reading, as opposed to regurgitation.
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  • Luhtala and other members of the high school’s Information and Communication Technology team have woven Moodle, the free, open-source, online course management software, into the curriculum.
  • “We work with a fair amount of data to measure student learning in information and communication technology. We also rely on emerging technology to communicate and collaborate with students and teachers.”
  • The library media center’s home page entices students, teachers and parents to click on a colorful lineup of icons familiar to everyone who enjoys connecting via social media: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, and VoiceThread, which the library has been using to promote book chats and reading for pleasure. Luhtala also regularly posts instructional videos on the Web for students and teachers.
  • “A librarian today is a facilitator and a leader for the teachers, for curricular learning, for interdisciplinary instruction, and is also a professional development person,” Luhtala says. “But we’re still school-based teachers. And it’s actually kind of beautiful. We like it just that way.”
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Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami Move the slider to compare satellite images from before and after the disaster.
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Which social network should I use as a librarian? - 0 views

www.philb.com/...whichsocialnetwork2.htm social network librarian
shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Which social network should I use as a librarian?
  • I've already hinted at this, but it's time to be more specific. My online contacts are now the way in which I get my information. They (or probably you) are constantly sending me a stream of useful stuff, which is personalized to my interests, based on my choices of who to follow, and who to pay attention to. So this isn't 'social' in the way that we're used to thinking of it, it's a hugely influential stream of data. If I follow you, you influence me, and if you follow me, I'm influencing you. It may be simply because the tweets or links are funny or interesting, or they match my personal interests.
  • My RSS feeds are similarly hugely important to me. My feeds and the information there, drawn from blogs, searches, profile pages and the like are not there for me to read every single one - that way would lie insanity. They are there to alert me to news that I'm likely to find important. Any one of those blogs or posts or tweets are saying 'this is happening, go check it out' with the important link. I don't need to read everything that each of my contacts has said (although sometimes I do, if I want lots of different views and opinions), because they're all pointing me to the source, and I can go off there and read what I need.
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  • The amount of data that's flooding out is truly daunting, and if I didn't have a social network - or rather, several of them, I simply wouldn't be able to cope. My filters are no longer based on the magazines that I read, or the evening news, they're based on the people that I follow. Now, this is really important I think, because what it does is links me into particular communities. The data I am served is important, but the community is increasingly valuable.
  • This is why - as librarians - we need to be involved in as many social networks as we possibly can. By doing this we're absolutely doing our professional job - we're helping to create and maintain communities - and it doesn't matter if that's a workplace community, a community based on geography or one that's based on specific content. We have to consider how to curate data within this social media environment, and I'll look at that in more detail later. Secondly, we're acting as authority filters. I know that when I get a tweet about a subject it's going to be good quality. I don't have the same trust with something like Google, or pretty much any other search engine. There are exceptions to this rule, since search engines are beginning to inject Facebook data into the SERPs, but in general, I'll trust people a lot more than I'll trust a computer. And - when it comes down to it, I'm going to trust a librarian more than just about anyone else.
  • By using social media it's much easier to get the information that you need quickly and effectively by asking a question in the right format. I couldn't remember who wrote the piece which I've now attributed to Woodsiegirl, but I had the answer within seconds from several different sources by tweeting the question.
  • The point however is that often we don't know we're in specific groups, but we can nonetheless play very important roles. Just because you don't think you're important doesn't actually mean that you're not. I really want to push this point once more before moving on. In my experience librarians do not often think they are that important, and they don't value their skills as highly as they should. Please do consider the value that you can give to others within your social networks - even when you're doubtful that you do give value!
  • The more that librarians do - NOW - with social media, the more that we're going to already be embedded into the social medium. The more contacts, friends, links, tweets, photographs, likes, +1's that we have, the more influential we can become. The more influential we are, the more people will link to what we're doing, the more we'll be working in networks of influence and the more useful we can be to people."
  • This can all be neatly summarized with the phrase that I use all the time 'go to where the conversations are'. We all know that users of library services are physically using them less, so we need to really utilise social to keep in contact with them. But it's more than that. We need to show them - by using social media how valuable contact with us can be. The more value we can provide, the more likely our work is going to filter up and down the information chain. People are increasingly taking the view that if news is important, it will find them. For many people - particularly younger users, 'checking the news' means looking on Facebook because for them, the 'news' is what they see, read have shared with them, and share with others. Similiarly, I share my information via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, my blog, LinkedIn and so on. It doesn't just get posted onto my site. We can't do that any longer. At the end of this article I've put up a quick poll - I'm really interested to see how YOU found this article. It's one question, and will take about 5 seconds to answer.
  • This new way of providing content and added value is not going to sit happily with traditional users of media - even if they think that they have made the leap into the internet. The traditional CEO, publishers of books, magazines and other print material, traditional authors, advertisers, press and publicity directors are not going to flourish. If we, as librarians think that we've got it bad, it's as nothing in comparison to those folks.
  • The main difference is that we know we have to change and adapt or we'll die.

The Virtual World Web - 2 views

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The Innovative Educator: Listen to a Principal Who Knows Banning is the Easy Way Out - 1 views

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shared by anonymous on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • Sheninger understands that while banning students from technology and social media is certainly easier, his job is not to do what is most convenient, but rather what is right for our students.  As a result, Sheninger publicly embraces the use of social media for himself and for his students.  
  • Sheninger, considered to be one of the most innovative principals in the country, will be joined by several of his teachers, students, board trustees and members of his community to discuss how New Milford High School uses technology as a student, parent, and community engagement tool.
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Grouply - 0 views

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shared by Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10
     
    Open source social network.
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Demo: Creating CMS Content in LibreOffice - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch CMS LMS HTML web-content learning education blog wiki networks social Ning
shared by Ann Randall on 09 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Ann Randall on 09 Oct 10
     
    A couple of years ago I stumbled across this method of formatting text for closed web-based LMSs such as Blackboard or Sakai. I finally got around to creating a screencast. I'm sharing this here as this method is also useful for creating content for social network tools such as blogs or wikis. It isn't a substitute for learning HTML, but it's a quick and easy procedure that works as well as a lot of WYSIWYG editors.
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50 Excellent Online Communities for Lifelong Learners - Learn-gasm - 0 views

www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/...munities-for-lifelong-learners social learning network networks
shared by Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10
     
    Whether you are looking for a little added information on what you are already studying in school or would like to connect with others who share your interests as a business professional or avid hobbyist, these online communities all offer an excellent opportunity to continue your search for knowledge. From reading to learning a new language to becoming a financial wizard to travel to saving the Earth, these groups offer a chance for learning as well as reaching out to others online.
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Interesting Blog with many relevant topics - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...social_networking learning social Network education knowledge
shared by Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10
     
    Andy Carvin is the host of this PBS blog that covers everything from the extent to which teachers are obligated to police the social networks to a student nearly being expelled for administering a facebook study group for his college course. The posts were thought provoking as were some of the responses.
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PLE - VLE - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch learning social Network ple pln knowledge Personal networks education networking
shared by Stephen Lazowski on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Stephen Lazowski on 07 Sep 10
     
    I found this short video describing the difference between a PLE and a VLE. I thought it was appropriate for our discussion of PLE's, and PLN's. VLE is a virtual learning environment that allows people to share idea's and content virtually. The author's make a reference to using VLE's in a University environment, which seems to fit in perfectly with this module's discussions. They give wonderful examples of resources for research to social networking. I wonder if we are going to discuss VLE's this semester?
  • glorihinck on 09 Sep 10
     
    This video can be helpful as you build your mindmap this week.

Classroom 2.0 - 2 views

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