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21 Jun 09

WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…

I am using this feature at NECC quite a bit - you can turn bookmarks into webslides. It is very useful and helpful!

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02 Mar 09

Hulu - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

(Warning - this movie is probably a PG-13 but not rated because it is online. Not for you to show your students at school, although, they are probably already watching it.)

This is a very viral video that a lot of the kids are talking about. (It came out LAST June but now is a hot seller on Amazon.) Neil Patrick Harris wants to join the Evil League of Evil. It is 42 minutes long. It is ironic how much of entertainment is becoming viral -- television can no longer control what gets watched - it gets "put out there" and then they see what is watched. In many ways, this viral way of video viewing is very interesting.

Not saying this should be watched -- it is quite hot with many college students. I could see how much that is said would resonate with college kids.

Listen to the vernacular - even though some of you may find this very napolean dynamite-ish.

"I'm just trying to change the world. I don't have time for a grudge match for every poser in a parka."

It grows on you -- stick with it.

Oh and be warned there are few words in here. But, no rating to catch it! (not sure why not rating movies just released online.) This is sponsored by XO laptop.

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26 May 08

Ning “the” Thing » CogDogBlog

Interesting observations from Alan Levine about those of us who use Nings for our projects. It truly becomes "the" ning.

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14 May 08

Connecting People Via The Network - Horizon Project 2008

I enjoyed this video a lot from Ren at Goodland High School. I particularly liked the contrast of the computers at the beginning of the video. I think he did a nice job.

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06 May 08

Geo Education

Google for Educators launches Geo Education today! Cool. It includes information on Google EArth, Maps, Sky, and Sketcup and lesson plans from teachers. It also includes tips on getting started with these tools in your classroom.

As you plan your summer PD, Geography teachers simply must get this on their list for fall!

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05 May 08

commentchallenge » home

the 31 day comment challenge is a program to promote effective, meaningful comments run by several amazing edubloggers -- this is an example of something that those interested in facilitating effective communications should discuss and participate in.

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25 Apr 08

From the Annointed Few to the Collective Many

Business people and management should read this article about the transformation of business by using workplace communities.

"Workplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges" -- they focus on tasks. I would find it interesting to see a business REALLY use technology to change things.

Having the business in a business network (OK a NING) and let people tag their posts with the business related PROBLEMS they are having and blog, video, or photograph it-- the tag cloud would tell the business IMMEDIATELY what the problems are in the company.

The problem with this model is that there are few corporate executives who REALLY want to know the problems within their organizations. They don't want to be problem solvers, just opportunity creators.

However, when managers open their eyes (and I'm a former General Manager myself) and see that two things give business opportunity: problem solving and innovation. And they are directly related. True innovation solves problems.

Read this article and think about how you may solve problems using the networks you may now create. If you don't want everyone to know, keep it private and only allow people in your company in.

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What has not changed significantly, however, is the nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction
the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years
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- a leading web analysis site
- more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook
- among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media.
- “Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
- We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift where individuals are indeed connecting “in ways and at levels that [they] haven’t done before”
- Workplace communities
- orkplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges
- talent management is about finding, developing, and retaining key talent within the organization
- Ernst & Young, for instance, has a significant presence on Facebook in support of its recruiting efforts
- Google, Home Depot, Enterprise Rent a Car, and Deloitte also are recruiting using Web 2.0 tools through YouTube videos and even alumni social networks
- “If companies keep social networks out, they will be doing a significant disservice to their bottom lines
- Between 2000 and 2020, 75 million Boomers will reach retirement age.
- The only content service with mass adoption (greater than 50 percent) was Social Networking, and this was only among respondents under the age of 35.”
- In addition, Millennials are the first generation to spend more hours online per week than watching TV (16.7 vs 13.6).
- some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.”
- “heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”
- robust and active communities will have an easier time recruiting talented Millennials
- they have opportunities to meaningfully connect to their peers and supervisors.
- A retiring Boomer who is an expert in a particular field could be an excellent community manager, blogger, or wiki contributor.

24 Apr 08

Listening to the Audience (Twitter) at Web 2.0 Expo: The Balance of Value vs Entertainment

Excellent overview from Jeremiah about the use of twiter to backchannel at a conference. Backchanneling is something I think that is very important, but there is very definitely a best practice.

Here were my comments to Jeremiah:

"I am a classroom teacher and LOVE the backchannel (they are great for test reviews -- like group notes and more) and won't do a conference presentation without one, that being said, I wouldn't use twitter for it.

Like you said, many people don't use twitter or get it.

I like to create a "backchannel room" so that it is archived and recruit ahead of time at least two people:

1) A backchannel "moderator" - they answer questions and I call on them several times to ask for their summary of what is going on in the backchannel (this is when I'm the main presenter)

2) A google jockey -- they drop the links I'm talking about in the backchannel chat.

I also like to ask the people in the backchannel to share best practice and what they are doing. I've had people comment that the one hour with a backchannel and me presenting was more meaningful than a whole day at a conference. (More compliments to the backchannel, I'm sure.)

I've seen backchannels handled very poorly and it was TERRIBLE. It was chaos. And actually downright rude to the speaker. (More like backstabbing than backchanneling.)

I've also seen it used well and it was incredible!

The archiving of the backchannel gave me rich links as a presenter and participant AND also feedback on the session which I referred to later as the presenter.

The backchannel is great -- I just like to use a backchannel ROOM especially for the session (inviting "friends" from around the world who are also watching on ustream) -- and then creating an archived copy of it.

I think backchannels are very important and you've hit on the core of what is happening in the evolution of professional development and conferences. "

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I was watching twitter in real-time to gauge the audience reaction (a best practice I prescribe in how to moderate a panel) and saw two tweets, in particular this one:

“I agree with @nickionita…community building panel is a snooze”
so I acknowledged them in twitter, and let everyone know we would quickly shift to questions, so the audience could drive the agenda. We received over a dozen questions, and I hope the audience was satisfied, lots of good hard questions from many folks on the ground that are trying to solve these problems: getting management to agree, measuring roi, dealing with detractors, etc.

After which, I think we won him over:

“Questions made the panel: Love hearing viewpoints from people with boots on the ground”
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- Now, the next panel (Greg Narain, Brian Solis, Stowe Boyd) wasn’t traditional by any sense, it was an experiment, where we crowd-sourced the agenda to the audience –they used Twitter. Greg Narain setup an application where members from the audience could message (@micromedia2) and their tweets (comments, questions, requests, answers, and sometimes jokes made at Scoble’s expense) were seen live on the screen.
- he was waiting for that breakthrough insight.
- Later, I talked to the gentleman who thought the session was negative, and his reason was because he was left out, and didn’t know how to get twitter started.
- we can tell as people actually took the time to blog about it
- I think our culture is being overrun by big mouths & squeaky wheels. Not everyone wants to jump into the mosh pit or finds it boring to have useful information presented in a structured format.

SurfTheChannel - Home

This is a website where tv enthusiasts are sharing videos and collaborating. This is an example of how television and all of our entertainment is evolving to become more customized.

In addition to creating personal learning networks, we will also be creating personal entertainment networks (PEN's) -- all via this amazing thing we call RSS. Understanding RSS is not only important for learning but just living your life.

User created content is here to stay.

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17 Apr 08

openpd » home

Open professional development by Darren Draper and Friends. These opportunities will let you open up your classroom and join in with others to learn collaboratively about blogs, wikis, and more. Take a look at it.

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum — The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web!

This site claims to be the largest student arts gallery on the web! Looks fascinating. Not sure how they use first names and locations and get away with it. I'd like to know what those who have used it think about it.

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16 Apr 08

Iditarod-Collaborative-Project » home

Elementary classrooms connecting about the Iditarod. From USA, Canada, and Lebanon. They will be re-running this project again next year.

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Iditarod Collaborative Project.

princecaspianproject wiki

An excellent project for 4th - 6th grade sudents from Jennifer Wagner called the Prince Caspian project which will allow teachers to collaborate with other teachers around the world about the book and the upcoming movie "Prince caspian."

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This project is open to all FOURTH to SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS Worldwide between the months of April to June, 2008
The main purpose of this project is provide a way for teachers to collaborate with other teachers all over the world about the book (and soon to be released) "PRINCE CASPIAN".

Susan Silverman's Lucky Ladybugs project going on for elementary

A great way to get started with technology is to join in an exciting project. this project by Susan Silverman was designed using the principles of Universal Design for Learning. I've heard her present and she is a pro. (Along with my friend Jennifer Wagner.)

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A Collaborative
Internet Project for K-5 Students
Essential Question:
Why are ladybugs considered to be good luck?
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- This
  project will demonstrate lesson plans designed following
  principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and
  examples of student work resulting from the lessons. As
  teachers we should ask ourselves if there are any
  barriers to our students’ learning. We should look for
  ways to present information and assess learning in
  non-text-based formats.
- Based on brain research and new
  media, the UDL framework proposes that educators design
  lessons with three basic kinds of flexibility:
  
  1. Multiple formats and
  media are used to present information.
- Examples:
  
  Illustrations,
  pictures,
  diagrams,
  video or
  audio clips, and
  descriptions
  
  2. Teachers use multiple
  strategies to engage and motivate students.
  
  3. Students demonstrate
  learning through multiple performance and product
  formats.
- UDL calls for
  
  three goals to consider in designing lessons:
  
  1. Recognition goals: these
  focus on specific content that ask a student to identify
  who, what, where, and when.
  
  2. Strategic goals: these
  focus on a specific process or medium that asks a
  student to learn how to do something using problem
  solving and critical think skills.
  
  3. Affective goals: these
  focus on a particular value or emotional outcome. Do
  students enjoy, and appreciate learning about the topic?
  Does it connect to prior knowledge and experience? Are
  students allowed to select and discover new knowledge?
- Resources you might want to use:
  
  Scholastic Keys, Kid Pix, Inspiration and Kidspiration,
  digital camera (still and video), recording
  narration/music, United Streaming. Let your imagination
  go!
- This
  project begins on March 15, 2007. Materials need to be
  e-mailed by
  May 31, 2008.

Global Kids

Online program that has second life presence and many other things for promoting global awareness.

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Think.com - Safety & Netiquette Lesson

Think.com's safety lesson with nets standards. Think.com is excellent to use with younger students and is very walled and has an excellent profanity filter. I highly recommend it and have personally used it for a summer blogging project. Excellent site. It also requires an extensive verification process by the participating schools.

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- Identify and provide examples of proper and improper netiquette;
- Generate a list of preferred web behaviors for their class;
- Understand and use a few Think.com content creation tools;
- Define "safety" and describe/draw an environment that values safety;
- Develop a greater sense of personal responsibility and web community; and
- Define the following words: accountable, community, enforcement, environment,
  etiquette, inappropriate, law, netiquette, private, responsible, rule, safety.

15 Apr 08

The Web2.0 Prophecy: An Adventure | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

This is an excellent article that has been reposted. It includes a lot of the information that outlines WHAT web 2.0 is. This includes videos and many important hyperlinks. Excellent article for newcomers to web 2.0 to pick up on.

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13 Apr 08

Online Predators and Their Victims

Cool summary of an article by Liz B. Davis -- Liz took the article and extracted the most valuable bits to her using google Docs. This methodology is fascinating, but even moreso the fact we may all begin doing this together with Diigo.

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My (Liz B. Davis ) Summary of Key Points (All are quotes directly from the article): Online "Predators" and Their Victims. Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment. by: Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, and Kimberly J. Mitchell - University of New Hampshire and Michele L. Ybarra - Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc.
The publicity about online"predators" who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.
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- adult offenders who meet, develop relationships with, and openly seduce underage teenagers
- In the great majority of cases, victims are aware they are conversing online with adults. In the N-JOV Study, only 5% of offenders pretended to be teens when they met potential victims online. (112)
- Offenders rarely deceive victims about their sexual interests.
- promises of love and romance
- 99% of victims of Internet-initiated sex crimes in the N-JOV Study were 13 to 17 years old, and none were younger than 12. 48% were 13 or 14 years old. (115)
- it was those 15-17 years of age who were most prone to take risks involving privacy and contact with unknown people. (115)
- take place in isolation and secrecy, outside of oversight by peers, family members, and others in the youth's face-to-face social networks (115)
- Most of the online child molesters described in the N-JOV Study met their victims in chatrooms. In a 2006 study, about one third of youths who received online sexual solicitation had received them in chatrooms. (116)
- Youth internet users with histories of offline sexual or physical abuse appear to be considerably more likely to receive online aggressive sexual solicitations. (117)
- ..Although Internet safety advocates worry that posting personal information exposes youths to online molesters, we have not found empirical evidence that supports this concern. It is interactive behaviors, such as conversing online with unknown people about sex, that more clearly create risk. (117)
- Online molesters do not appear to be stalking unsuspecting victims but rather continuing to seek youths who are susceptible to seduction. (117)
- maintaining online blogs or journals, which are similar to social networking sites in that they often include considerable amounts of personal information and pictures, is not related to receiving aggressive sexual solicitation unless youths also interact online with unknown people. (117)
- Boys constitute 25% of victims in Internet-initiated sex crimes, and virtually all of their offenders are male. (118
- Some gay boys turn to the internet to find answers to questions about sexuality or meet potential romantic partners, and there they may encounter adults who exploit them. (118)
- ..child molesters are, in reality, a diverse group that cannot be accurately characterized with one-dimensional labels. (118)
- Online child molesters are generally not pedophiles. (118)
  Online child molesters are rarely violent. (119)
- Child pornography production is also an aspect of Internet-initiated sex crimes. One in five online child molesters in the N-JOV Study took sexually suggestive or explicit photographs of victims or convinced victims to take such photographs of themselves or friends. (120)
- Youths may be more willing to talk extensively and about more intimate matters with adults online than in face-to-face environments. (121
- it may not be clear to many adolescents and adults that relationships between adults and underage adolescents are criminal. (122)
- Simply urging parents and guardians to control, watch, or educate their children may not be effective in many situations. The adolescents who tend to be the victims of Internet-initiated sex crimes many not themselves be very receptive to the advice and supervision of parents. (122)
- We recommend educating youths frankly about the dynamics of Internet-initiated and other nonforcible sex crimes. Youths need candid, direct discussions about seduction and how some adults deliberately evoke and then exploit the compelling feelings that sexual arousal can induce. (122)

11 Apr 08

horizonproject2008 » Keynote

Don Tapscott is keynoting this year's Horizon Project -- we are very excited. This is the page where he will "deliver" his keynote which will be posted some time around April 15th, 2008. Mass collaboration does change everything -- we can connect with authors such as this!

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10 Apr 08

CONTENTMEETSTECHNOLOGY.COM

Mashup contest to envision the future of education and win a lot of prizes! This is a great idea!

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