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kathleen johnson

Ideal Library - 14 views

I am working on something similar, a potential article for SLJ. I can send a draft in about a week if you are interested.

started by Jean Bruce on 23 Nov 10 3 follow-ups, last by kathleen johnson on 25 Nov 10
Bright Ideas

Family History Education - My Place In History - MyPlaceInHistory.com - 11 views

www.myplaceinhistory.com

history education family web2.0 resources socialstudies

shared by Bright Ideas on 29 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Bright Ideas on 29 Nov 10
     
    My Place in History, a new educational programme for Australian upper primary schools, is a web-based programme designed to teach students about the concepts of change and diversity - of backgrounds, in family structures, and the many economic, political and social circumstances in both our distant and more recent history that have contributed to who we are today and how we all came to be living in Australia.
beth gourley

Fair use and transformativeness: It may shake your world - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on ... - 0 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...1420024142.html

copyright fair use valenza

shared by beth gourley on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • copyright is designed not only to protect the rights of owners, but also to preserve the ability of users to promote creativity and innovation.
  • the critical test for fairness in terms of educational use of media is transformative use
  • adds value to, or repurposes materials for a use different from that for which it was originally intended, it will likely be considered transformative use; it will also likely be considered fair use
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  • BGA filed suit against DK for copyright infringement.  The courts threw the case out, agreeing with DK's claim of fair use. The posters were originially created to promote concerts.  DK's new use of the art was designed to document events in historical and cultural context. The publisher added value in its use of the posters. And such use was transformative.
  • The fact that permission has been sought but not granted is irrelevant.  Permission is not necessary to satisfy fair use.
  • What is fair, because it is transformative, is fair regardless of place of use.
  • One use not likely to be fair, is the use of a music soundtrack merely as an aesthetic addition to a student video project.
  • adding value, engaging the music, reflecting, somehow commenting on.the music
  • photocopying a text book because it is not affordable is still not fair use
  • beth gourley on 03 Apr 08
     
    a discussion to "develop a shared understanding of how copyright and fair use applies to the creative media work that our students create and our own use of copyrighted materials as educators, practitioners, advocates and curriculum developers."
  • beth gourley on 03 Apr 08
     
    This seems like an obvious share. An important discussion because it also opens more collaboration with colleagues. I have found that some colleagues want to avoid the gatekeeper because of the conservative nature of understanding copyright and fair use. This has been even more difficult while being in an international school.
Cathy Oxley

'The Door in the Wall and the Middle Ages' Webquest Resources - 0 views

coe.west.asu.edu/...door_resources.htm

castles door medieval middleages wall webquest

shared by Cathy Oxley on 12 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 12 Oct 08
     
    This webquest seems like it would be useful for Yrs 5 - 7
  • Cathy Oxley on 12 Oct 08
     
    This is one of the pages from a webquest on the Middle Ages, specifically designed to help students gain more from reading the book "The Door in the Wall". It contains lots of links to
Cathy Oxley

Touring Antarctica - 0 views

www.linkingforlearning.com/...index.htm

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 03 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 03 Nov 08
     
    This is a webquest designed by Camilla Elliott. "A new tourist company, 'Antarctic Tours', wants to establish monthly trekking tours in the Antarctic for four months from November to the end of February. They plan to take 400 trekkers to Antarctica during this four months each year. The Australian government has requested that an Environmental Impact Team explore the impact of this tourism proposal on the animals and natural environment of Antarctica. The Environmental Impact Team will be made up of a Tour Operator, an Environmentalist, a Scientist and a Politician. This Team will present a report to the government with recommendations to either support or argue against giving the go ahead for 'Antarctic Tours' to begin operations in November this year"
beth gourley

"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" - 0 views

www.danah.org/...MSRTechFest2009.html

social_media web2.0 networking

shared by beth gourley on 21 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Social media is the latest buzzword
  • Web2.0 means different things to different people
  • Web2.0 was about the perpetual beta
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  • For users, Web2.0 was all about reorganizing web-based practices around Friends
  • typically labeled social networkING sites were never really about networking for most users. They were about socializing inside of pre-existing networks.
  • 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
  • showcases the ways in which some tools are used differently by different groups.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Search changes the landscape, making information available at our fingertips
  • 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
  • visitors who access our content at a later date or in a different environment
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Social media is not new. M
  • beth gourley on 21 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.
  • beth gourley on 21 Mar 09
     
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Donna Baumbach

Myebook - get it out there! - 0 views

www.myebook.com/index.php

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 27 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 27 Nov 09
     
    myebook aims to revolutionise the way we create, publish and share ebook content online. Built on a feature-rich social platform, complete with powerful, browser-based, builder software, and a slick reader environment, there's never been an easier way for anyone and everyone to 'get it out there'. With myebook.com, we've made it possible for anyone to upload, or create from scratch, beautifully simple or adventurously complex page designs and covers online, in no time. What's more, you can publish your book with a single button and release it to the world before the (virtual) ink's dry! You can create as many publications as you want. And it's all free.
Donna Baumbach

The Big Read - 0 views

www.neabigread.org/about.php

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 27 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 27 Nov 09
     
    "The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. The Big Read answers a big need. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, a 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts, found that not only is literary reading in America declining rapidly among all groups, but that the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young. The concerned citizen in search of good news about American literary culture would study the pages of this report in vain. "
Donna Baumbach

I Like Sprixi - 0 views

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/...i-like-sprixi

searchengine images creativecommons photos search_engine

shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09
     
    "search engine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. It's design is very attractive and easy to use. The key reason I like it, though, is because when you want to use one of their photos, it automatically shows whatever permissions are required."
Lissa Davies

AT&T Internet Safety Connections Game - 0 views

www.att.com/...game.html

internetsafety cybersafety technology digital citizenship

shared by Lissa Davies on 22 May 11 - Cached
  • Lissa Davies on 22 May 11
     
    designed to help students practice recognizing scams and dangers online. That game is appropriate for elementary school students. Richard Byrne
Anthony Beal

The Cambridge Curriculum for Information Literacy - 22 views

arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/...information-literacy.html

informationliteracy libraries ilg research cambridge projects

shared by Anthony Beal on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 28 Jul 11
     
    This short project seeks to develop a practical curriculum for information literacy that meets the needs of the undergraduate student entering higher education over the next five years. It will consult widely with experts in the information literacy field, and also those working in curriculum design and educational technologies.
Antonietta Neighbour

Best Online Collaboration Tools 2011 Updated weekly - MindMeister Mind Map - 1 views

www.mindmeister.com/...robin-good-s-collaborative-map

collaboration tools web2.0 resources socialmedia software

shared by Antonietta Neighbour on 18 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Antonietta Neighbour on 18 Aug 11
     
    Robin Good - Communication Designer and New Media Explorer - has compiled this great mind map of the top collaboration tools for 2011 that he updates ... weekly! Check out the other mind maps he's created from the list on the right-hand side.
Antonietta Neighbour

5 Self-Promotion Tips That Aren't Sleazy - 0 views

sixrevisions.com/...omotion-tips-that-arent-sleazy

promotion

shared by Antonietta Neighbour on 21 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Antonietta Neighbour on 21 Aug 11
     
    Although pitched to web designers these tips can apply to anyone trying to promote themselves and what they do - including, of course, teacher librarians.
Anthony Beal

Purdue University Libraries - CORE - Tutorial on learning to research - 12 views

gemini.lib.purdue.edu/...outcomes.htm

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shared by Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11
     
    "Developed by a team of librarians and others at Purdue University to guide you through the process of developing an effective information strategy." Attractively designed tutorial covering all areas of information searching. http://goo.gl/4vG7C
Elease Franchini

Track your Fiction Book Series - FictFact - 27 views

www.fictfact.com

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shared by Elease Franchini on 08 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Elease Franchini on 08 Sep 11
     
    The site is designed to help you read fiction book series in order. It is easy to find out which book is next with a custom list based on your favorite series!
Ann Sperske

Our Courts - Homepage - 4 views

www.ourcourts.org

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shared by Ann Sperske on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ann Sperske on 10 Nov 09
     
    Spearhead by Justice O'Connor, Our Courts is a web-based education project designed to reinvigorate civics learning inside and outside the classroom.
Donna Baumbach

The virtual library as a learning hub - 0 views

clatoolbox.ca/...273brookskirkland.html

school_library_media_centers virtual_Libraries Learning_commons

shared by Donna Baumbach on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 17 Nov 09
     
    In my last column, I talked about setting the stage for a truly inviting virtual library learning commons with good web design principles. Now we need to explore what happens in the library's virtual learning commons that makes it far more than a mere website. CANADIAN JOURNAL
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