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Pam Jeffrey

Digitally Speaking / Blogging - 7 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Blogging

web 2.0 blog

shared by Pam Jeffrey on 11 Nov 09 - Cached

  • Using Feed Readers

     

    Feed readers are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet easy.  Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for anyone. 

     

    Imagine never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources again.  Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.

     

    Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?

     

    It's not!  Here's a Commoncraft tutorial explaining RSS Feeds in Plain English:

     

    Feed readers can quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are connected to the curriculum.  By collecting sites in advance and organizing them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for their students. 

    Here are several examples of feed readers in action:

     

    Student Blogs

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/20982438

     

     

    This feed list includes several elementary, middle and high school blogs that students can explore during silent reading or while online at home.

     

     

    Current Events 

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16714925

     

    This feed list includes links to several news websites that cover topics that are a part of one teacher's required social studies curriculum. 

     

    Global Warming

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/22534539

    Used specifically as a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual research. 

     

    While there are literally dozens of different feed reader programs to choose from (Bloglines and Google Reader are two biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and interesting to look at.  It is also free and web-based.  That means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet connection.  Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no longer interested in.

    What's even better:  Pageflakes has been developing a teacher version of their tool just for us that includes an online grade tracker, a task list and a built in writing tutor.  As Pageflakes works to perfect its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital home for students. 

     

    For more information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this review:

     

    http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2008/02/pageflakes-for.html

     

     

    For more information on using feed readers to organize and manage information, check out this handout: 

Cindy Galpin

educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - 1 views

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bloomstaxonomy blooms Web2.0 digital education

shared by Cindy Galpin on 16 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • Blooms Domains of learning. Made with C-Map
  • Collaboration is not a 21st Century Skill, it is a 21st Century Essential.
  • Bloom's Digital Taxonomy isn't about the tools or technologies rather it is about using these to facilitate learning
  • ...42 more annotations...
  • ... communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn't useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.”
  • In a recent blog post from the official google blog, Google identified the following as key traits or abilities in 21st Century Employees:
    • Cindy Galpin
      Cindy Galpin on 22 Mar 12
       
      Digital taxonoy rocks
  • Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy – Remembering 1. Remembering: Retrieving, recalling or recognising knowledge from memory. Remembering is when memory is used to produce definitions, facts or lists, or recite or retrieve material.
  • Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be
  • The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
  • Advanced and Boolean Searching
  • Bullet pointing
  • Highlightin
  • Bookmarking or favouriting
  • Social networkin
  • Social bookmarking
  • Searching or “googling
  • Understanding: Constructing meaning from different types of function be they written or graphic. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows
  • “... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations. ”
  • Blog Journallin
  • Categorising & Taggin
  • ommenting and annotating
  • Subscribin
  • Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing or implementing. Applying related and refers to situations where learned material is used through products like models, presentation, interviews and simulations. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
  • Running and operating
  • Playin
  • Uploading and Sharin
  • Hacking
  • Editing
  • Analysing: Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. Mental actions include differentiating, organizing and attributing as well as being able to distinguish between components. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
  • Mashing
  • Linking
  • Reverse-engineering
  • Cracking
  • .Evaluating: Making judgements based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
  • Blog/vlog commenting and reflecting
  • Posting
  • Moderating
  • Collaborating and networking
  • Validating
  • Testing (Alpha and Beta)
  • Creating: Putting the elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganising elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning or producing. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
  • Programming
  • Filming, animating, videocasting, podcasting, mixing and remixing
  • Directing and producing
  • Publishing
  • Yolanda Hogeveen on 16 Jun 10
     
    education bloom's taxomony
  • Cindy Galpin on 22 Mar 12
     
    Bloom's Digital Taxonomy; 21st Century Learning and digital connections
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.
Cathy Oxley

Children still prefer reading physical books, finds Scholastic | The Bookseller - 21 views

www.thebookseller.com/...al-books-finds-scholastic.html

children reading books findings scholastic ebooks

shared by Cathy Oxley on 17 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 17 Jan 13
     
    "The number of children who have read an e-book has almost doubled since 2010 but children still prefer reading books for fun in print, according to Scholastic Inc's Kids and Family Reading Report, 4th Edition."
Antonietta Neighbour

Reporters Without Borders - 4 views

en.rsf.org

journalism news activism freedom culture

shared by Antonietta Neighbour on 03 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Antonietta Neighbour on 03 Jul 13
     
    Their mission ... To continuously monitor attacks on freedom of information worldwide; To denounce any such attacks in the media; To act in cooperation with governments to fight censorship and laws aimed at restricting freedom of information; To morally and financially assist persecuted journalists, as well as their families. To offer material assistance to war correspondents in order to enhance their safety.
Susan Harari

Storycorps Animated Shorts - 0 views

storycorps.org/animation

videos storycorps

shared by Susan Harari on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Susan Harari on 07 Sep 12
     
    StoryCorps' original animated shorts series features some of their best-loved radio stories. Includes animated stories about 9/11, immigration, family, school, disabilities, etc.
Cathy Oxley

Historypin - App Review - 20 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/...historypin

app review historical_photos Historypin

shared by Cathy Oxley on 15 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 15 Aug 13
     
    Historypin is an innovative way to explore and share historical photos across the globe and through time. It is designed to be an intergenerational project, connecting families and communities.
jenibo

Werner Herzog texting while driving documentary "From One Second to the Next" is worth ... - 9 views

www.slate.com/...om_one_second_to_the_next.html

texting driving documentary safety

shared by jenibo on 13 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • jenibo on 13 Aug 13
     
    "This documentary on Texting and Driving is haunting. It focuses on four accidents, some of them fatal, and Herzog aims his camera squarely at the faces of both victims and perpetrators, asking them to describe in detail what happened and the aftermath. Herzog emphasizes the change in civilization he perceives in part by examining an accident in which an Amish family was killed and another in which a horse-shoer's truck was involved." For Senior Students.
jenibo

Google Drive Blog: Four new ways to customize your Google Forms - 12 views

googledrive.blogspot.com.au/...-to-customize-your-google.html

googleforms customize

shared by jenibo on 12 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • jenibo on 12 Sep 13
     
    From classroom pop quizzes to RSVPs for your family reunion, you can use Google Forms in tons of different ways -- which is why it's important to be able to customize each form to fit your needs. Starting today, you'll be able to take advantage of four new features to create your perfect form: progress bars, data validation, embedded YouTube videos, and custom messages.
Donna Baumbach

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (... - 3 views

www.amazon.com/...0262013363

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 22 Nov 10
     
    "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings-at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. By focusing on media practices in the everyday contexts of family and peer interaction, the book views the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States. Integrating twenty-three different case studies-which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music-sharing, and online romantic breakups-in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis."
Donna Baumbach

Pegby: Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done. - 19 views

www.pegby.com/view

gtd productivity collaboration todos task_management organization tasks wallwisher

shared by Donna Baumbach on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 14 Jun 11
     
    Pegby wants you to stop using those sticky notes that seem to be everywhere on and around your work desk, and instead use their cards and stacks to manage tasks. Their task management board is divided into mainly three columns - pending, in process and done (you can add more columns if you need them), and in each column you can add cards which are basically tasks and their descriptions. Different cards (tasks) can be combined together into a named stack, each card or stack can be dragged or dropped across columns. You can also invite people and jointly create and manage tasks. Each card can be customized in various ways. Its color can be changed, it can be tagged and much more. There's a way to filter your board too if you think it's full of clutter. Features: * Manage tasks through online cards and stacks. * Have family members use it along with you. * Add columns to the board, drag and drop cards. * Similar tools: Corkboard, Pindax and WallWisher.
Cathy Oxley

Mother shames daughter on the internet, teaches herself a lesson - 28 views

www.essentialkids.com.au/...f-a-lesson-20140324-35dhv.html

digital citizenship cybersafety daughter

shared by Cathy Oxley on 25 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 25 Mar 14
     
    In an attempt to show her daughter how quickly a picture can spread over the internet, one mum's "lesson" quickly backfired.
Ninja Essays

Best Christmas Books of All Times | Shannon A Thompson - 0 views

shannonathompson.com/...t-christmas-books-of-all-times

christmas books times information literacy reading promotion reading

shared by Ninja Essays on 22 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Ninja Essays on 22 Dec 14
     
    It may be cold, crowded and hectic, but everyone agrees that Christmas is the best time of the year! It's time to connect with our families and show appreciation for everything we have. The loving Christmas mood has inspired many authors to write heart-warming stories that embody the spirit of the holiday.
milesmorales

Homeschooling Tips That Will Really Help You Out - 0 views

Kids in public schools face many hurdles today, the bulk of which we never had to deal with when we were young. The best way to help your kids avoid these pitfalls is to homeschool them, and the he...

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Hilda Gómez

PhotoMontager - Moonlighting - 14 views

moonlighting.io/photomontager-web.php

shared by Hilda Gómez on 20 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Hilda Gómez on 20 Jan 15
     
    We enjoy creating ways for you to make your photos fun and creative, and share them with your friends and family. We develop photo edition apps for smartphones, tablets and Windows 8.
Anne Weaver

Scholastic's New Report Examines Kids’ Attitudes on Reading | School Library Journal - 26 views

www.slj.com/...ines-kids-attitudes-on-reading

reading scholastic

shared by Anne Weaver on 13 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Anne Weaver on 13 Jan 15
     
    The "Kids & Family Reading Report, 5th Edition" survey from Scholastic launched on January 8 with findings, including what kids are reading for fun, the makings of a frequent reader, and what kids want to read.
amby kdp

DIY Ideas At Home: Make Best Out Of Waste - 0 views

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diy crafts best out of waste ideas craft projects home decor

shared by amby kdp on 28 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • amby kdp on 28 Jan 16
     
    DIY Ideas At Home - Make Best Out Of Waste Here in this book I am going to share with all some creative ideas on how to use old and waste material in your house. You will be amazed to know that you can make useful and creative items from those materials at your home only. I myself tried these ideas and get praised by family and friends
Disability Loans

Disability Loans • Useful Tips That Helps In Choosing The Suitable... - 0 views

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disability loans personal loans same day loans

shared by Disability Loans on 30 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Disability Loans on 30 Jan 16
     
    Useful Tips That Helps In Choosing The Suitable Loans For People On Benefits Service! There are numerous of people who are facing problem in earning needful for themselves and family due to some...
amby kdp

DIY Ideas At Home: Make Best Out Of Waste: Mary L. Parker: 9781511859790: Amazon.com: B... - 0 views

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diy amazon books diy projects diy ideas diy home decor diy craft ideas

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  • amby kdp on 29 Feb 16
     
    DIY Ideas At Home: Make Best Out Of Waste [Mary L. Parker] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. DIY Ideas At Home - Make Best Out Of Waste Here in this book I am going to share with all some creative ideas on how to use old and waste material in your house. You will be amazed to know that you can make useful and creative items from those materials at your home only. I myself tried these ideas and get praised by family and friends. So
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