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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
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
Robin Cicchetti

It's official: Google wants to own your online identIty - Tech News and Analysis - 7 views

gigaom.com/...ts-to-own-your-online-identity

identity privacy identity service real name google digital footprint

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
    • Robin Cicchetti
      Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11
       
      Users forfeit the ownership of their user data to Google.
  • Google’s purpose was clearly to “provide identity in a commerce-ready way. And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.
  • obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network like Google+, since indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising.
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  • The growth of Google+ provides a reason for people to create Google profiles, and that data — along with their activity on the network and through +1 buttons — goes into the vast Google cyberplex where it can be crunched and indexed and codified in a hundred different ways
  • excludes potentially valuable viewpoints that might be expressed by political dissidents and others who prefer to remain anonymous. In effect, Schmidt said Google isn’t interested in changing its policies to accommodate those kinds of users: if people want to remain anonymous, he said, then they shouldn’t use Google+.
  • the reason Google needs users with real names is that the company sees Google+ as the core of an identity platform it is building that can be used for other things:
  • n identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information
Antonietta Neighbour

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 20 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...on-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade

education technology 21stcentury digital teaching

shared by Antonietta Neighbour on 03 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. it should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
  • The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
  • Antonietta Neighbour on 03 Sep 11
     
    According to Davidson (2011 p7) if we're frustrated at information overload then we should quit operating under twentieth century rules ... I'm currently reading "Now You See it". This is an article about the book.
milesmorales

The Dry Erase Board: A Cool Tool For Learning - 0 views

The dry erase board or whiteboards as some know it has been a great help in providing knowledge to the youth today. it has many sizes to choose from and has always been the best tool for many mento...

started by milesmorales on 04 Aug 14 no follow-up yet
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...

started by milesmorales on 19 Aug 14 no follow-up yet
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: 

amby kdp

Anti Inflammatory Diet: Know Everything About Inflammation & Ways To Control It - 0 views

www.amazon.com/...ref=sr_1_sc_1

anti inflammatory foods Anti inflammatory diet diet health #Amazon books

shared by amby kdp on 29 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • amby kdp on 29 Feb 16
     
    Anti Inflammatory Diet: Know Everything About Inflammation & Ways To Control It [Cheryl Barnhart] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anti-Inflammatory Diet - Know Everything About Inflammation & Ways To Control It According to years of research
Donna Baumbach

How To Visualize Ideas, Information & Data Using Sketchnoting - 25 views

www.makeuseof.com/...mation-data-using-sketchnoting

infographics sketches sketchnoting graphics graphic_recording presentation_tools analysis thinking_tiools visuals

shared by Donna Baumbach on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 04 Dec 12
     
    Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. it's a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text medium of outlining. Sketchnoting, or visual notetaking, is for clustering information and capturing big ideas.  it involves using text, fonts, diagrams, bullets, and visual pictures and icons, similar to how you may use an advanced word processor 
Martha Hickson

Kidsmart: Digital Footprints - 17 views

www.kidsmart.org.uk/digitalfootprints

digital_footprint

shared by Martha Hickson on 05 May 13 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 05 May 13
     
    Treat your password like your toothbrush don't share it with anyone and change it often.
Martha Hickson

Librarydoor: Common Core Carpe Diem! - 32 views

librarydoor.blogspot.com/...common-core-carp-diem.html

common_core standards curriculum information_literacy lesson_plans

shared by Martha Hickson on 05 May 13 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 05 May 13
     
    This webinar gave an overview of the reading, research, and rigor components that librarians can "assist" teachers with. If you wrap your head around these critical shifts, and you will likely become as building leaders as you model solutions for meeting the CCSS. Teachers all over are trying to figure this out and this is a piece of cake for us! Carpe Diem! Wrap your head around Inquiry and Student Centered research projects. (Writing standards 6-10) Help "repackage" research units Help find "rigor" - Rich Text - reading passages, correctly aligned to the CCSS Lexile bands. Understand what it means to "read closely" - with purpose, meaningful, directed, points of view, etc. Understand what a Lexile is and its role in the CCSS Help teachers replace lower level texts (Lexile) with alternatives correctly Lexiled, or Non-fiction Inquiry Units using your non-fiction collection!
Jany Fernandez

Scopeprice | Microsoft Surface Studio Review - 0 views

www.scopeprice.com/...ft-surface-studio-specs-review

#scopeprice #amazon #eBay Technology Product Price Walmart Bookmark Best marketing shopping

shared by Jany Fernandez on 09 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Jany Fernandez on 09 Feb 17
     
    Microsoft Surface Studio is the company's first desktop PC. It is easily the most attention-grabbing new PC design of the year, even if most of Its individual ideas like - external control knobs, tabletop PCs - have been seen before in different contexts. The new Studio and Surface Dial provided a stark, inventive contrast, especially for graphic designers, artists and video edItors who scooped up new Macs wIthout question in years past.
Donna Baumbach

pastelink.me | the easiest way to share files online - 29 views

pastelink.me

file_sharing tools drag'n'drop

shared by Donna Baumbach on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 30 Apr 12
     
    asteLink is a simple to use tool that allows teachers and students to send large files (up to 250MB) without having to sign up and register for a service. Users can also share as many files as they want and they will stay accessible to the other party for a full week. This is a great site that breaks the 10MB email cap that most schools enforce and it is simple to use with its drag-and-drop file loading and no registration requirement. A great way to quickly and easily send a large video or photo file that otherwise might require a service with a registration or a physical media exchange.
Vivian Harris

An Analysis of the PIRLS (2006) Data: Can The School Library Reduce the Effect of Poverty on Reading Achievement? CSLA Journal 34, 1 2010 - 6 views

web.ntpu.edu.tw/...PIRLS_CSLA.pdf

library reading achievement

shared by Vivian Harris on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • Vivian Harris on 31 May 12
     
    It has been firmly established that more reading leads to better reading (and wrIting, spelling, vocabulary and grammar), and that more access to books results in more reading (Krashen, 2004). It is thus reasonable to hypothesize that more access to books is related to better reading. This prediction has been confirmed by a number of studies showing a posItive relationship between library qualIty and reading achievement (McQuillan, 1998; Lance, 2004, and studies reviewed in Krashen, 2004).
Jamin Henley

Swiss Army Librarian » Highlighting the Value of Library Use :: Brian Herzog - 16 views

www.swissarmylibrarian.net/...hting-the-value-of-library-use

value library

shared by Jamin Henley on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • Jamin Henley on 31 May 12
     
    " a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:"
Anthony Beal

Why Information Literacy? | National Forum on Information Literacy - 28 views

infolit.org/...why-information-literacy

information literacy video literacy

shared by Anthony Beal on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 17 Dec 11
     
    Why is information literacy critical to our transformation as an Information Society? The Teaching in the 21st Century video below gives you a unique insight into how the framework of teaching and learning has been dynamically transformed and what we need to do, as facilitators, to ensure our success as a nation moving forward. So take a few moments to view it and share your thoughts. Pass it along to others…join us in our mainstreaming mission.
Dennis OConnor

Don't Shush Me! In Some Libraries, It's OK to be Loud | MindShift - 22 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...me-libraries-its-ok-to-be-loud

libraries research 2.0

shared by Dennis OConnor on 03 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Buffy Hamilton, who calls herself “The Unquiet Librarian,” holds the phone receiver away from her ear at Creekview High School library in Canton, Ga., revealing a cacophony of noise in the background.
  • Creekview High School’s media center looks and sounds nothing like the silent libraries of the past. The new emphasis on collaborative learning and the use of digital tools to produce dynamic research projects lead to a louder, more hands-on environment that can prove beneficial to students later on in college. Hamilton says graduates have returned to thank her because their digital skills are more advanced than those of their classmate
  • The shift to a noisier and more interactive library model is relatively new in U.S. public school systems. Some examples are evident at universities and private schools in Georgia, New York and California, all of which have taken a lead in transforming their libraries. In Massachusetts, the Cushing Academy, a private boarding school for high-school students, gave away its collection of over 20,000 books two years ago and transformed its library into a digital center with e-books and searchable databases.
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  • Hamilton seems to be redefining what it means to be a librarian. She’s active on Twitter, maintains a blog about being a “modern school librarian” and frequently travels around the country and world to speak about her model. Creekview’s was the only school-based library that won a 2011 American Library Association award for having a cutting-edge technology service, Media 21, that could be replicated by other school libraries around the country.
Fran Bullington

School Library Monthly - ALA Presidential Task Force: Focus on School Libraries - 18 views

www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/...Ballard2012-v28n6p15.html

school_libraries ALA task_force

shared by Fran Bullington on 25 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 25 Feb 12
     
    "It was the best times, It was the worst of times…." This famous observation by Charles Dickens is certainly applicable to the current status of school library programs and school librarians. On the one hand, some programs are valued and receive ongoing support from their communIties. Led by competent, effective school librarians, programs such as those recognized as meeting the crIteria of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) National School Library Program of the Year Award, provide solid evidence of the posItive impact of best practice on teaching and learning. On the other hand, the economic downturn, often combined wIth a lack of understanding or value for how school librarians and library programs contribute to student achievement, has led other communIties to eliminate posItions and to cut back, curtail, or get rid of once thriving programs.
jenibo

A Cool Flowchart to Teach Students How to Cite and Credit Images ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 77 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...art-to-teach-students-how.html

citation research 2.0 fair use

shared by jenibo on 26 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • jenibo on 26 Feb 14
     
    "Our job as teachers is to draw our students attention to the fact that copy-paste culture is destructive and that appropriate citations and crediting back the sources, if ever we are allowed to, are two important things we always need to invoke as we are dealing with both digital and non digital content.  I have an entire section in this blog packed full of resources, tools and tips on how to teach your students about copyright, check it out here to learn more. Today, I am sharing with you this wonderful flowchart I come across in digital inspiration. You can use it with you students to teach them about the kinds of images to cite and how to do so."
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