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PBS Teachers | learning.now . New NSBA Report on Social Networking | PBS - 0 views

  • Students aren’t just passive users of social media tools, either. One in five stated they post online comments on a daily basis, with 41 percent doing it at least weekly. Similarly, 22 percent of students admitted to uploading videos at some point, with nine percent claiming they do so on a weekly basis. And a whopping 30 percent of them publish their own blogs, with 17 percent of them updating them weekly.
    • J J
       
      Good stats for social networking.
J J

PBS Teachers | learning.now . Facing Up to Facebook | PBS - 0 views

  • At the University of North Carolina, for example, administrators created a pair of dummy Facebook profiles to demonstrate what can happen when students reveal too much information about themselves. These dummy personas, Ivana Bea Stalked and Lloyed Unemployed, reveal more info about themselves than you’d probably want to encounter, from their personal contact information to images of what they look like inebriated or in limited clothing.
    • J J
       
      I need to look these profiles up... But, this is an interesting idea... How would we manage to train kids about this in their classes?
  • Last fall, Malavenda caught a group of students selling cocaine and kicked them off campus. In response, they started a Facebook group called “We hate Pablo,” complete with directions to his house and instructions to hurt and eliminate him.
    • J J
       
      As a teacher, what am I responsible for "policing" if I am online and friends with various people? Suddenly my jurisdiction seems to be much broader than the classroom. To a certain extent, I know more about my students than their parents.
  • Or should schools stick to doing what they know best and leave it to higher ed to tackle these issues when students graduate and move on? The answer is probably somewhere in between. Schools, quite rightly, are concerned about online safety and student responsibility, yet it’s hard to teach proper behavior in a vacuum. Given the current environment, though, is it possible to craft the right kind of compromise and make it useful to students and teachers alike?
    • J J
       
      We use moodle in our school, but we seem to have some problems with it (when accessing it from school). But, as the author pointed out in another article, students don't want another social network.
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  • The problem is that teachers and parents can’t join the students’ network. When I tried to create an account, it lasted 2 days before I was booted out. (The halls were plastered with signs: “Teachers on Facebook! Watch out!”) When I have contacted Facebook (repeatedly) they have denied me access, even when I have offered to identify myself as a teacher at the school with this account (i.e., a letter from my principal, my face on our school website, a photocopy of my driver’s license).
    • J J
       
      This is not my experience. I suspect this was an earlier version of Facebook, though.
J J

Webs' Random Ideas | Facebook, Classroom Management, and Teaching - 0 views

  • if you are going to get students to use another social system, like WebCT, you better be damn sure it is well implemented
    • J J
       
      Good point.
  • Students don’t want to manage 2 or more social systems.
    • J J
       
      I wonder where he got this information or if it is just a gut feel.
  • The other method is to do the above, but also create a group for the class. Within the group you can post homework notices and other class notices, as well as have an interface for students to discuss class issues. I also like having the class group because I can see all the students have joined, and I can manage the class a little easier. If I want to send Timmy a message I can do that very easily without having to scroll through my list of friends to find him. Other students can do the same.
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    • J J
       
      This is great (with the group thing) because students do not have to join you as a friend on Facebook. I'm wondering what sort applications you would have at your disposal if you manage through groups rather than as friends. And, then I have to wonder from a legal perspective what it is to manage school courses in a publicly-owned arena (especially from a German perspective).
Sharon O'Toole

Butterfly and Moth Life Cycle | Children's Butterfly Site - 0 views

  • Français Deutsch Español Italiano Nederlands
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Pretty interesting that the site is offered in other languages
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    This is a nice site for children and is very colorful
Sharon O'Toole

Where Do Butterflies Come From? - 0 views

  • Here's what you need: Toilet-paper tube Tongue depressor or ice-cream pop stick Heavy paper 6" (150 mm) piece of pipe cleaner, folded in half Markers or crayons Scissors and glue
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      This is a great little early elementary education project.
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    This site has a terrific project.
Sharon O'Toole

Life Cycle of Butterflies (Lesson Plan) - TeacherVision.com - 0 views

  • Have students send caterpillar and butterfly questions from their worksheets to the Children's Butterfly Site (http://bsi.montana.edu/web/kidsbutterfly/) expert via email. Students can go to the Gallery page of Children's Butterfly Site (http://bsi.montana.edu/web/kidsbutterfly/) to see photographs of butterflies and moths from around the world.
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Interesting that it's linked to another site that I found meaningful a few moments before locating this site.
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    Good lesson plan.
Sharon O'Toole

Monarch Picture Story - 0 views

  • Photo of a Monarch butterfly on milkweed
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Beautiful photos on this site.
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    Nice photos and informational.
Sharon O'Toole

Academy of Natural Sciences - Butterflies! - 0 views

  • The butterfly and moth develop through a process called metamorphosis. This is a Greek word that means transformation or change in shape.
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      This site is on the straight-forward, boring side.
Sharon O'Toole

Butterfly Life Cycle 1st Grade WebQuest - 0 views

  • Lincoln School, New Bedford, MA.
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Local school made good!
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Local school made good
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Butterfly Life Cycle Photo Gallery - 0 views

  • Butterflies Mating
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Rated PG-13? :-)
Sharon O'Toole

FREE Butterfly Coloring Pages: Flying Butterfly - 0 views

  • Butterfly Life Cycle
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Good for a quick coloring project
Sharon O'Toole

Web 2.0 Summit 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, November 05 - ... - 0 views

  • The commercial web is now a teenager—it's been fifteen short years since Marc Andreessen released the Mosaic browser. To put this in perspective, television as a commercial medium reached its fifteenth birthday in 1956—the year Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national TV. National news broadcasts were still in their infancy,
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Once you're a teenager, you must have a conference - any one up for a trip to San Fran?
Sharon O'Toole

Web 2.0 how-to design style guide - 0 views

  • In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web ("2.0") design style.
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Got to look good in 2.0
Sharon O'Toole

Rich data: the dark side to Web 2.0 applications | The Register - 0 views

  • Unfortunately, richness affords attackers an unprecedented opportunity to bury attacks targeting users and systems downstream of the offending application or service supplier.
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      This is a very interesting article on the vulnerabilities in a 2.0 world
Sharon O'Toole

#tab=active~checked%2Citems~checked&title=Web%202.0%20--%20Britannica%20Online%20En... - 0 views

  • next envisioned iteration of the World Wide Web
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Forget wikipedia...it's in the Brittanica!
Sharon O'Toole

Cerado's Web 2.0 or Star Wars Quiz - 0 views

  • How silly is the Web 2.0 hype getting? You tell us! Here's a quick quiz...we looked in 30Boxes and analyzed 37Signals that led us to come up with the 43Things below. So without further ado, can you decide...
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Hilarious. I will take the test someday soon!
Sharon O'Toole

A List Apart: Store: Web 2.0 Shirt - 0 views

  • Fresh out of gamma and filled with Ajaxy goodness, our buzzword-compliant Web 2.0 Tee tells the world you’re ready to be acquired by Google
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      I love the class, but you won't catch me in web 2.0 fashion.
Sharon O'Toole

Steve Hargadon: Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education - 0 views

  • Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education."
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      This blogger gets it!
Sharon O'Toole

Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

  • Web 2.0: A New Waveof Innovation for Teaching and Learning
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      A scholarly article on our topic.
Sharon O'Toole

Butterfly facts, Butterflies and moths, Life cycle of Butterfly - 0 views

  • What Is a Butterfly ?Butterflies belong to INSECTS, which is the largest, most varied group of animals.The main features of these animals have in common are:- 6 legs- one pair of antennae- a segmented  body in which three body parts, a head, a thorax and an abdomen can be distinguished. Insects are further divided into 30 orders, the main basis of classification being their wing structure.Butterflies belong to, alongside with moths to an order called Lepidoptera
    • Sharon O'Toole
       
      Not a great site in that there are no pictures.
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