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WT? Hoaxcall.com???

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:03:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cyberbullying...

Get your ready made controversy here, folks

A press release lands in our inbox: "Is Hoaxcall.com the Latest Form of Cyber-bullying?", it asks, pushing frantically at the big red controversy button implanted in every journalist's brain. Except this isn't a campaign against the website, but an ad for the website itself: it's just trolling by the site's creator, Marc Waesche, to try and generate some heat. Cynical? Of course, which is why we're pointing it out and not linking to it. Let's just hope there isn't a blogger or hack actually lazy enough to follow this up.

Tags: cyberbully, hoax, call, website, article, education

Wikipedia & the classroom

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:27:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The on-going debate about the use of Wikipedia in the classroom via http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/045541.php. It is very interesting. We are changing how we talk about wikipedia with the students here. We know it is out there and we know students use it. It is much better to understand how it works than to dismiss it all together.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

User:Jbmurray/Madness

Was introducing Wikipedia to the classroom an act of madness leading only to mayhem if not murder?

Reflections on the use of Wikipedia in the University of British Columbia's course SPAN312, "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation," Spring 2008.

[edit] Wikipedia: unloved but ubiquitous in academia

Still, everybody uses it, in one way or another, even if they might want not to admit to the fact. Above all, our students use it, openly or otherwise (as they are often explicitly told not to cite wikipedia article in term papers), but without necessarily knowing how it works. They are told that wikipedia is bad, but they are not often told why; and of course, they find it an incredibly useful resource.

Tags: wikipedia, classroom, education, teaching, tools

How the Wikipedia scanner works

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:52:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We have to teach kids how to properly use Wikipedia. Some teachers do not mind it's use while other's describe it as "the devil." I am slowly moving on the side where it is ok to use as a reference point but not as a source to cite. As one of our history teachers said, "You would not cite World Book, so why would you cite Wikipedia." Exactly! But I do think it is a pretty good resource.
There have been tales of how people and companies are creating their own entries and this Wikipedia Scanner helps to assure that those individuals do not create their own biased entries. It's good to see that something is in place so hopefully Wikipedia does not turn into another marketing tool like MySpace and Facebook and Google.

Clip Source: computer.howstuffworks.com

How the Wikipedia Scanner Works

by Jacob Silverman

Image courtesy Jake Appelbaum/Virgil Griffith
Virgil Griffith created the Wikipedia Scanner to catch companies and organizations who were editing Wikipedia articles to their own benefit.

In this article, we'll take a close look at how the WikiScanner works, look at some particularly controversial or simply bizarre examples of anonymous editing and consider some of the reactions to the WikiScanner. We'll also show you how you can use the WikiScanner to see what some organizations and companies may be up to on Wikipedia.

Tags: wikipedia, scanner, howitworks, education, interesting

The fine line between our public & private lives online

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here is another article about how public and private lives are no longer being separated on the web. I have discussions about this all the time with my friends and peers about the etiquette and propriety needed online, especially in a field where so many kids can find you if you are not careful.
Our behavior online is so important now because, as I have recently experienced, it is so easy for my students to find me online. I have resorted to putting a lot of things "private" or "friends & family only" and am using a social networking blog site that has privacy options.
I also wonder about when or if there will ever be a line between private and public life. It is disappearing. Insurance & employers are penalizing individuals who smoke AT HOME and employers are viewing individuals MySpace or Facebook pages. When does it stop? Will it? When is it viewed as encroaching on individuals rights or lives?

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

"I hate to think of what's out there. . . . There's so much out there that it's hard to know what's there," said Ken Blackstone, a Prince William schools spokesman. "But as public employees, we all understand the importance of living a public life above reproach."

When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web

It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school system. And then watch the public profiles of 20-something teachers unfurl like gift wrap on the screen, revealing a sense of humor that can be overtly sarcastic or unintentionally unprofessional -- or both.

By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 28, 2008; A01

Local school officials said they don't necessarily scrutinize Facebook when they conduct background checks on teachers. But in some parts of the country, they do.

Tags: education, teaching, social networking sites, sns, propriety, private, public, lives, personas

Great Tips on Teaching PPT

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:55:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We are in our ppt unit and we have been reworking it every year. Our team leader sent this article over and I thought I would share it. It's great! Hopefully, I will be able to convey this to my students. I'll keep you posted.

Clip Source: www.schoollibraryjournal.com

PowerPoint Reform: a first chapter
January 20, 2008

After 10 years, it was time. We could not sit through another bullet-ridden, brain-numbing student presentation. We interviewed the kids. For them it was just as bad.

Technology coach Ken Rodoff and I worked with classroom teachers to break bad habits. We worked with one English class preparing presentations on Ethan Frome and four Senior Seminar classes.

What we shared:

We echoed the words of one student from a class unit we piloted last year--"the slides are for the audience; they are not for me."

Tags: powerpoint, slides, tips, how-to, teaching

Making the most of your RSS Reader from RWW

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:59:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I really dig this short article from RRW. These are things I have thought about, like oversubscribing - is it good or bad? Should I use multiple readers or just stick to one. I have 2 accounts one on bloglines and one on google. But sometimes i feel so overwhelmed with all the subscriptions I have that I just sort of stop reading.
These are helpful tips and since next year we will be introducing RSS into the curriculum this might be some helpful pointers for students as well.

Clip Source: www.readwriteweb.com

Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader

RSS is a big deal, as anyone who's subscribed to even a few feeds probably knows. Once you get past just a few feeds, though, it can quickly get overwhelming. RSS can leave you feeling inadequate, brain-dead and uninspired.

1. Oversubscribe

2. Try a River of News View

3. Use Multiple Services

4. Try Out a Desktop Reader

5. Tag Items to Share

Tags: rss, readwriteweb, rww, web 2.0, tools, schools, education

Campus Gossip Sites - What to do?

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:49:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Flaming," "cyberbullying" - call it what you will, but that is what these sites do. There are no ethics in the online world. It seems that who ever created this site, posted to this site, etc - is following the lead of Perez-Hilton, except these people are not famous. This is why you have to teach your kids about how to behave online. What will happen if your kids name is posted? your name?

Clip Source: chronicle.com

How to Combat a Campus Gossip Web Site (and Why You Shouldn't)

A typical thread on the gossip Web site Juicy Campus lists the women at Baylor University who are the "biggest sluts." Another lists the "biggest cocaine users" at Southern Methodist University. And another identifies guys at Cornell University who are "creepy."

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Approach 1: Politely Ask the Site to Tone it Down.

Approach 2: Call for a Blockade.

Approach 3: Hit the Site Where it Hurts.

Approach 4: Spam the Site.

Approach 5: Ignore the Site.

Tags: gossip, blogs, chronicle of higher education, combat, what-to-do

Interesting question & post from Attempting Elegance

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:21:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I work at a school library and this is a great question. I will have to take some time to reflect on it.

Clip Source: rogersurbanek.wordpress.com

Attempting Elegance

What is real library work, anyway?

“I’m not trying to be a pain, but if someone’s, like, just doing Facebook, can I kick them off? Can you? I have actual work to do!”

Tags: libraries, library, work, school, social, judgment

Online Images - Facebook & copyright

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:58:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am teaching a unit on images and their use for the classroom. I found this really interesting post about how Facebook hijacks your rights to your images without people really knowing it.

Now, I really hate Facebook.

Clip Source: www.jmg-galleries.com

Facebook’s Rights Grab: How Far Does It Go?
Jim posted in Copyright, Photography, Links & Articles on February 27th, 2008

What I found is that unknowingly people using applications that reference photos are in fact indirectly posting photos to Facebook subjecting them to the excessively far-reaching terms specified in their Terms of Use. It’s not very obvious but many applications that you’d think would reference images from their source location (say a blog for example via Flog Blog) are in fact duplicating images and hosting them on Facebook. The net result being images hosted on Facebook as though you had manually uploaded them. The distinction legally is identical, but is far from obvious for the end user.

Tags: images, facebook, rights, copyright, photography, links, blogs, jmg-galleries

Eric Heuvel's "The Search"

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:27:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I want to order this graphic novel for our library. I think, that it will present the Holocaust in another medium that some students will find more accessible, similar to how they viewed the 9/11 report graphic novel.
I am actually having trouble finding out where to order it so maybe someone out there can help with that.
It is an interesting review in the NYT and also another interesting example of how the graphic novel is changing. Though, I do questions some things like the graphic novel version of Beowulf or the Odyssey but maybe it's not that much different from the abridged children's version of the Iliad or Alice In Wonderland.
I am also fascinated by the fact that it is considered a textbook.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real

Among other things, the book, building on the obvious precedent of Art Spiegelman's "Maus," shows how far comics have come as a cultural medium taken seriously here, but also that the Holocaust has come a long way too, as a topic to be freshly considered by a new generation of German teenagers.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The visual style of “The Search” is clear, simple, pastel-colored, in a classic Belgian-Franco comic tradition. “Less is more,” Mr. Heuvel, the artist, said in a recent telephone conversation, acknowledging that he pilfered liberally from Tintin’s inventor, Hergé. “We spent endless hours making sure that the Nazi costumes were kept to a minimum because boys can glorify these things.”

She added: “More and more young German students do too. They are sensitive to the idea that the subject is not just about Germans and Jews. It’s about people and life.”

Tags: graphic novel, germany, holocaust, eric heuvel, "the search", nyt

Teacher Librarians - School Librarians - we are not obsolete!

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:44:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rob Darrow (California Dreamin' Blog) posted this. How exciting is this news?
And now story time:
In grad school during orientation week, one of our esteemed professors asked, "Is there anyone interested in school librarianship?" The crickets started chirping. Throughout my entire 2 years, the only thing I heard about school librarianship was that it was an obsolete job and that you would be the first person given the pink slip when the budget needed to be shifted. However, from the looks of it, it is becoming more and more in demand.
I pretty much fell into my job. I never thought about working at a school, let a lone working with teenagers. But here I am and it is the most interesting and challenging job I have ever had. It's great to see that certain states see the importance of this position and how it is an asset to a good education program.

Clip Source: blogs.ala.org

Unanimous! On to the House....

Olympia continues to mystify and thrill us. After passing out of Ways and Means yesterday, we expected to wait to be scheduled in the Senate Rules Committee. But .... SB#6380 was heard by and passed through the Rules committee this morning, and then went for a full Senate floor vote this afternoon. Senators McAuliffe, Eide, Marr, Brown, Honeyford, Hargrove, and Parlette spoke in support of the bill, and it in was UNANIMOUSLY PASSED just after 4pm this afternoon.

There will be more info. posted at the blog later http://librariesfordemocracy.org/fundfuture/
But we wanted you to know the great news.

Tags: school, librarianship, teacher, librarian, washington, state, education

Scholarship & the Read/Write Web

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:11:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: During my undergraduate and graduate years, the libraries I used struggled with the ever increasing cost of scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Today, faculty in Harvard's arts & sciences department are going to vote on whether they want to publish their research on an open-access server maintained by the library.
This is a great move. I know, I am completely biased. I love reading other people's research - a lot of librarians and educators - already use their blogs as a means of sharing their work and also working with others. I
However, I do wonder about what types of issues with come up once this starts and people begin access it. There are issues of plagiarism, how it will effect existing journals, how it will effect those specific fields and I am just not sure if the detriment will out weigh the benefits.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

Although the outcome of Tuesday’s vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost.

Under the proposal Harvard would deposit finished papers in an open-access repository run by the library that would instantly make them available on the Internet. Authors would still retain their copyright and could publish anywhere they pleased — including at a high-priced journal, if the journal would have them.

Tags: harvard, publishing, journals, scholarship, open-access, peer-review, education, universities, university

Tech & Schools - it's a tool

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:47:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I love that comment "Technology is just a tool, not an end in itself. It will never replace good teaching."
I think, we need to keep in mind that there is a balance that needs to be forged between technology and teaching.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

North Point High School for Science, Technology and Industry in Waldorf went with ceiling-mounted LCD projectors but nixed the idea of laptops for all students. "Our philosophy is to have whatever technology our teachers want to do their jobs better available to them," Principal Kim Hill told me. "Technology is just a tool, not an end in itself. It will never replace good teaching."

A School That's Too High on Gizmos

Tags: education, technology, teaching, balance, wp

YAY! As Ambookgeek says "Booyah!"

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:39:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Librarian - one of the best careers for 2008 as listed by US News. More validation even though it is not really necessary

Clip Source: www.usnews.com

Librarian

Curriculum/training specialist

Higher education administrator

Tags: careers, 2008, usnews

Islam & Wikipedia entry

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:41:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think I would like to use this for my class. We discuss wikipedia and how to use it as a resource for their middle school papers. We also try to discuss ethical issues and this looks like a short article that could get them thinking about these issues.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized

An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.

Tags: education, viewpoints, wikipedia, religions, islam

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WT? Hoaxcall.com???

Get your ready made controversy here, folks

Wikipedia & the classroom

User:Jbmurray/Madness

[edit] Wikipedia: unloved but ubiquitous in academia

How the Wikipedia scanner works

The fine line between our public & private lives online

Great Tips on Teaching PPT

PowerPoint Reform: a first chapter January 20, 2008

Making the most of your RSS Reader from RWW

Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader

1. Oversubscribe

2. Try a River of News View

3. Use Multiple Services

4. Try Out a Desktop Reader

5. Tag Items to Share

Campus Gossip Sites - What to do?

How to Combat a Campus Gossip Web Site (and Why You Shouldn't)

Interesting question & post from Attempting Elegance

Attempting Elegance

What is real library work, anyway?

Online Images - Facebook & copyright

Facebook’s Rights Grab: How Far Does It Go?Jim posted in Copyright, Photography, Links & Articles on February 27th, 2008

Eric Heuvel's "The Search"

Teacher Librarians - School Librarians - we are not obsolete!

Unanimous! On to the House....

Scholarship & the Read/Write Web

Tech & Schools - it's a tool

A School That's Too High on Gizmos

YAY! As Ambookgeek says "Booyah!"

Islam & Wikipedia entry

PowerPoint Reform: a first chapter
January 20, 2008

Facebook’s Rights Grab: How Far Does It Go?
Jim posted in Copyright, Photography, Links & Articles on February 27th, 2008