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Janice Stearns

23 Things On a Stick: What Are the 23 Things On a Stick? - 0 views

23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/...at-are-23-things-on-stick.html

library2.0

shared by Janice Stearns on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • Janice Stearns on 18 May 08
     
    A good framework for introducing web 2.0 tools for educators, especially teacher librarians. via Kurt Paccio
Beverley Humphrey

Online Ribbon Generator Tool - 0 views

www.quickribbon.com

generator webdesign ribbon graphics tools design web2.0

shared by Beverley Humphrey on 07 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Beverley Humphrey on 07 Mar 09
     
    QuickRibbon website ribbon generator, free Web2.0 widget
Janice Stearns

School Library Learning 2.0: The 23 Things - 2 views

schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/...23-things_27.html

library library2.0

shared by Janice Stearns on 10 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Janice Stearns on 10 Apr 08
     
    A guide to learning some 2.0 tools for school librarians.
Cathy Oxley

mywebspiration - 0 views

www.mywebspiration.com/index.php

web2.0

shared by Cathy Oxley on 15 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 15 Oct 08
     
    A free alternative to Inspiration
  • Cathy Oxley on 15 Oct 08
     
    Whether working individually or collaboratively, Webspiration™ is the new online visual thinking tool that helps you: capture ideas organize information diagram processes create clear, concise written documents With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
     
    Diigo in education
Donna Baumbach

Life Feast: 10 Ways of sending your Christmas Greetings - 0 views

lifefeast.blogspot.com/...of-sending-your-christmas.html

web2.0 audio video greetings

shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09
     
    cool tools for schools, too!
Donna Baumbach

Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch: 2009: What I bought this year - 0 views

kathyschrock.net/...9-what-i-bought-this-year.html

lists gadgets technology edtech change

shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09
     
    check out some of these new tools and toys!
Donna Baumbach

Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...Read%C2%A2_Make_It_Social.aspx

diigo reading literacy social_bookmarking web2.0 teaching

shared by Donna Baumbach on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 20 Mar 10
     
    "One great tool for creating social reading experiences is Diigo (www.diigo.com), a free online application that allows users to add highlights and comments onscreen to any Web-based text. These comments can be seen by anyone using Diigo and are identified with the commenter's user name. Diigo also enables users to bookmark and "tag" with keywords any online articles that they find fascinating."
Seanean Shanahan

TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration! - 0 views

typewith.me

information literacy cool tools writing tools web2.0

shared by Seanean Shanahan on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Seanean Shanahan on 09 Apr 10
     
    Up to 15 people can type at the same time and share the document
Seanean Shanahan

Welcome to Google Lit Trips! - 0 views

www.googlelittrips.com/...Home.html

web2.0 information literacy tools cool tools Literature Mapping books digital storytelling

shared by Seanean Shanahan on 07 May 10 - Cached
  • Seanean Shanahan on 07 May 10
     
    Use Google Earth to take a lit trip through a book
Mary Morrison

Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide - 0 views

www.microsoft.com/...digital_storytelling.aspx

digitalstorytelling

shared by Mary Morrison on 06 May 10 - Cached
  • Mary Morrison on 06 May 10
     
    Download an e-book, watch videos, and use tempates from teachers to learn how to use Windows Live Movie Maker and other tools to make learning more personal with pictures and movies in your classroom." />Stylesheet
Jason Epstein

Many Eyes: Word Tree - 21 views

manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/...Word_Tree.html

tools word visualization many eyes

shared by Jason Epstein on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Jason Epstein on 22 May 10
     
    Along with Wordle, this tool can be used effectively to examine how any word is used in a piece of literature and also (the part I love) is that it can be seen how the word/phrase is used contextually.
Fran Bullington

The Complete Dropbox for Educators - Tech the Plunge - 47 views

jeffthomastech.com/blog

dropbox educators resources tools cool tools

shared by Fran Bullington on 02 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 02 Jan 11
     
    Great resources for both using Dropbox and sharing it with other educators.
Robin Cicchetti

Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity - 21 views

www.lib.berkeley.edu/...InvisibleWeb.html

invisibleweb search deepweb research searching reference Curriculum

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 11 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Robin Cicchetti on 13 Feb 11
     
    Invisible web, search tools, curriculum. Incorporate this into web search lessons.
Sharon Laverick

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Workawesome/~3/ADCz_ZfZMHA/ - 0 views

ht.ly/1bAo29

presentation multimedia Web2.0

shared by Sharon Laverick on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Sharon Laverick on 03 Mar 11
     
    Highlights six feature-rich web-based presentation tools as alternatives to PowerPoint, also some additional ones included.
Marita Thomson

Start Smart @ UOW - 0 views

www.uow.edu.au/...index.html

information-literacy tutorials University_of_Wollongong

shared by Marita Thomson on 22 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Marita Thomson on 22 Feb 11
     
    University entails a world of academic information where Google is only one of the information tools you'll need to use. Lecturers will expect you to find academic information from the resources provided free to you by the UOW Library. StartSmart gives you the essential skills and confidence to approach your first assessment task.
Lissa Davies

IDroo Whiteboard for Skype - 0 views

www.idroo.com/home

whiteboard collaboration education

shared by Lissa Davies on 21 May 11 - Cached
  • Lissa Davies on 21 May 11
     
    "What it is: IDroo is an educational multi user whiteboard that lets students instantly collaborate online.  Everything that is drawn or written on the whiteboard is visible to all participants in real-time.  IDroo supports an unlimited number of meeting participants, the only limitations are computer power and internet connection speed.  There is a professional math typing tool built-in making it easy to teach or work through math problems collaboratively. Best of all, IDroo can be used with Skype! IDroo is free for non-commercial use. Now for the downfall (and this is a HUGE downfall in my humble opinion), IDroo is currently only available for Windows.  I  know, disappointment for us Mac lovers. *sigh*  If you are using a Windows computer this is a great way to collaborate online! How to integrate IDroo into the classroom: IDroo would be a great app for collaborating with other classrooms around the world.  Students can use the multi user whiteboard space to work together, share ideas, and brainstorm.  IDroo would also be fantastic as a way for teachers to tutor students virtually.  Set up an "open lab" time once a week online where students can drop in and get extra help.  Virtual lab times are especially helpful for elementary students who can't dictate their own schedules and often can't stay after school for extra help. Tips: Don't forget to allow IDroo to access Skype API after you download!" iLearn Technology
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