T.H.E. Journal is an educational technology-themed magazine geared toward teachers. The company offers both a magazine subscription (often including articles and research pieces) and an Internet site (includes many articles and resources all about technology and teaching).
A database of poems submitted by children 7 yrs old and up. Poems are divided into categories and archived. There is also a "teacher zone" that provides useful ideas and links.
A site for teachers, parents, and young readers, Children's Book Radio posts podcasts with authors of popular and classic children's books. Great way to gather a list of books for a classroom library and learn background about specific titles and authors.
Lots of information on types of portfolios and creating effective ones. Of particular interest are the sections on how to write important aspects of teaching portfolios, such as a philosophy statement and rationale for materials.
A great resource for teachers! Provides many ideas for teaching Language Arts and Reading; as well as tips on staying organizing, classmaroom management, and creating bulletin boards.
This article from the ERIC Digest provides a DAP and research-supported view of how to help and encourage young writers. It looks into such approaches as High/Scope and drawing-writing connections.
The IRA is a professional organization for teachers. Members have access to numerous sources about reading and education, including peer-reviewed journals and publications, conferences, research, and networking. One of the best things about IRA is that you can select the publications of your membership based on the age level you teach (there are publications geared specifically to young learners, elementary, and secondary).
Is this really true though? A few paragraphs before, the article talks about the futile attempts to remove copyrighted material from YouTube. If the users are okay with posting videos that result in copyright infringement, are we really to be believe that there is not a good number of people trying (and probably succeeding, at least on some level) to post violent, pornographic, obscene, etc videos on the site. If I were an advertiser, I'd be very hesitant to post my product where the users are "policing their own space".
Yet Zuckerberg was at the beginning of the social networking when he started Facebook and now look at what has come from it. If anything, it is likely that YouTube had a more direct startup (its target audience was not initially as limited as Zuckerberg's). Despite being at the beginning of online video, YouTube is becoming a social norm.
One of the things I find most annoying with TV shows online is the pseudo-commercials they include while loading and throughout the programs. If YouTube started using pre-video commercials, I personally would probably use the site less.
A recurring theme we've talked about in ITW is how some people are hesitant toward change. The want to keep the status quo shows this hesitantion, despite the overwhelming popularity of YouTube.
advertisers have been broadcasting themselves for decades and would very much prefer the status quo. The good news is that the status quo isn't long for this world.
Stone Soup is a magazine that is published six times a year. Each edition includes writings by children in multiple genres. The website provides supplemental resources for the editions as well as a teacher's page.
I absolutely love this line! It reminds me of the original idea for YouTube and its use. Despite it now being commonly used in educational settings, let's face it - many still use YouTube simply for fun, for sharing, and for expression.
Google has recently bet the equivalent of 257 Mervyns stores that the rise of video-sharing is more than just the latest rage.
In thinking about how much video-sharing has become mainstream, one could compare it to blogging. Just a short while ago, blogging was this 'new' thing for teenagers and young adults, that eventually became a common practice (just look at how many people have a Myspace even, let alone sites dedicated just to blog posting). I think now video-sharing is taking this same path, with more and more people finding it commonplace.
I'm not sure I would go as far as to claim this. Yes, video-sharing and such is and will continue to have a major impact; however, I think watching TV has become too much of a social force with the general American population to say that it is on the brink of ending. New innovations, such as YouTube, may become popular quickly but this does not mean socially-ingrained innovations, such as the 'blue light' of TV, will disappear quickly.