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Ohhh! Sketch-Casting!

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:47 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: This looks fun. I will try it. Maybe you will too. If you are already using it, tell me about it

Clip Source: chronicle.com

SketchCast: a New Blogging and Teaching Tool

Want to preserve that lesson you did at the blackboard today in class and share it with students online? Try SketchCast, a blogging tool that allows users to record a digital drawing (and contemporaneous audio), and then embed the animated video onto a Web site. It’s essentially an easy form of animation.

Here’s the official demo:

Tags: sketchcast, blogging, tools, teaching, demo

Wikipedia & the classroom

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:27:02 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
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

The fine line between our public & private lives online

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:04 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
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

Online Images - Facebook & copyright

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:58:26 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
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

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

Daniel Pink interviews Thomas Friedman

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:15:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yesterday, Alan November visited the school and held a workshop. He talked about global learning and how students need to be prepared for the future and need a world view. He discussed ways to incorporate web tools so that students can use these tools in a new context, not just a social one. At one point, he talked about Thomas Friedman's books and that triggered Daniel Pink in my head. Then Karl Fisch posted this link on his blog, The Fischbowl. I thought it would be a good one to share.

Clip Source: www.aasa.org

Tom Friedman on Education in the ‘Flat World’

A discussion with author Daniel Pink on curiosity, passion and the politics of school reform in the global marketplace

We sent Daniel Pink — himself the author of another best-selling book that’s been embraced by educators, A Whole New Mind — to talk with Friedman in his office at the Times’ Washington bureau. What followed was a wide-ranging conversation about schools, parents, mash-ups, horizontal thinking and the value of “yes, but” teaching.

Tags: education, technology, global learning, interview, school administrator

Teaching Jeff Corwin Spanish...

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:30:53 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: I think this is a pretty great example of how to incorporate different tech tools in the classroom. Learning.now blog posted it so I thought I would share. It's humourous but definitely puts learning Spanish out there and teaches these kids about how to use these tools and have an online presence. Great job Mr. Craft & your sixth graders!

Clip Source: www.teachjeffspanish.com

Teach Jeff Spanish dot com

Helping Jeff Corwin improve his Spanish

About

We are a group of sixth graders in South Carolina. We think Jeff Corwin from Animal Planet is a great guy, but he needs to work on his Spanish. That’s what we’re here to do!

Tags: jeff corwin, spanish, videos, vlogging, video blog, blog, 6th graders, education