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A selection of web2.0 social and participatory resources (articles, essays, tools, tips) for school information officers.
Updated on 2009-08-13
Created on 2009-04-04
Category: Schools & Education
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Cory Doctorow: Beyond Censorware: Teaching Web Literacy (includes lesson plan!)
do we want to raise a generation of kids who have the tech savvy of an Iranian dissident, or the ham-fisted incompetence of the government those dissidents are running circles around?
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[slideshare] The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube Culture and the Politics of Authenticity
presented at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009. The real presentation also includes 15 minutes of mashed up YouTube videos - basically a shortened but updated version of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
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[video] Equity - Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
I like this equity video. I only wish it had embed code so I could share it properly - rather than just the video page (the video of the kid).
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Triangle Program's Positive Spin on Facebook
The Ontario College of Teachers magazine, Professionally Speaking, talks to Anthony Grandy about how the Triangle Program uses Facebook in a positive way to connect to at-risk LGBTQ youth.
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The Ontario College of Teachers magazine, Professionally Speaking, talks to Anthony Grandy about how the Triangle Program uses Facebook in a positive way to connect to at-risk LGBTQ youth.
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Remixing Wonderland: An interview with Pogo | melanie mcbride online
The following is the first in a series of interviews with people who are changing the way we learn, think and engage via emergent technologies.
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[PDF study] Creating & Connecting: Research/guidelines on social - and educational - networking | NSBA
While social networking
seems omnipresent in the lives of
most tweens and teens outside of
school, most school districts are
cautious about its use in school: -
Dangerously Irrelevant: Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators
Here are my top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the TED presentations that I think are most likely to interest, educate, and entertain administrators as well as make them think!
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Web 3.0 or Not, There's Something Different About 2009
In a nutshell here are some of the new or noticeable trends that we're seeing on the 2009 Web:
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The Tempered Radical: Openly Sick of Being Digitally Resilient. . .
The problem: Laptops in our building---like most schools---are on digital lockdown!
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COSN: Web 2.0: Policy & Leadership in Education
our Web 2.0 Policy and Leadership Project is based on the recognition that these resources can provide powerful learning resources for our children and thus prepare them for the world beyond the classroom.
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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine
It’s too late to just retreat to a quieter time. Our jobs depend on connectivity. Our pleasure-cycles—no trivial matter—are increasingly tied to it. Information rains down faster and thicker every day, and there are plenty of non-moronic reasons for it to do so. The question, now, is how successfully we can adapt.
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[video] Danah Boyd on youth cultures in MyFriends, MySpace
[NOTE: Skip lengthy intro of participants - talk begins at 7:15] danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She provided a great historical context to the various sites that have come and gone from the center of Internet activity, as well as some insight into what brought about their successes and failures.
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[youtube] An anthropological introduction to YouTube
presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation.
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[youtube] International Society for Technology in Education -- ISTE Second Life
Explore the world of possibilities as you go along on the journey of several educators working and learning in Second Life. With your host, Kittygloom Cassady, find out how ISTE Island created a powerful educator network and supports this ongoing collaboration within Second LIfe. . --- Knowclue Machinima
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Technology adoption lifecycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic and psychological characteristics of defined adopter groups. The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell curve." The model indicates that the first group of people to use a new product is called "innovators," followed by "early adopters." Next come the early and late majority, and the last group to eventually adopt a product are called "laggards."
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HOW TO: Simplify Your Social Media Routine
Limit yourself to high-impact messages to reduce the time you spend communicating.
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[video] Howard Rheingold Seesmic post on Erving Goffman and Life Online
This short casual Seesmic video thread post offers a great conversational introduction to Goffman's ideas about the presentation of self and how we mediate our performance according to context.
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City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it)
The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it.
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You need to hang out for minutes and hours, every day, to get in the groove.
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You are responsible for whoever else's babble you are going to direct into your awareness.
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6 Stages of MSM Tech Bashing (Second Life, but can be applied to any service)
Here are the 6 stages of media coverage hell that the press and the TV networks are putting us all through:
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