Wow, summer school is pretty doggone demanding this year- it is taking up all my time. But I want to keep up with the Classroom 2.0 and I'm on thing 16, which means there aren't that many left. I have also been running into even more toys and playthings on the internet - facebook in particular. I also heard about Shelfari and Ning, and still want to learn about Twitter - I haven't had the time to explore.
So - Wiki's! Well, I am a Wikipedia queen - I use it especially when researching my radio show. I realize that it's just people writing the entries, but you can always pull out and verify any information on other sites - especially if it is official type information. If it's just gossip, well, gossip may not be so accurate anyway no matter where you get it - even People magazine!
I really like the idea of wiki's for the classroom, particularly the classes where writing is involved: English, Social Studies, History, Economics. And there may be a case for writing in math that could use a wiki - but it's a stretch right now for me to come up with something for the lower level students - they have such a hard time 'getting started'. And when they can't get started, they are content to just write down what someone else has, particularly what I have written down, since teachers are the 'experts'.
Personally, I think it would be a blast to have a wiki with input from all my friends, especially those that travel, with things like restaurant reviews, places to hike and play, things to do on a rainy day, things they find on the internet that are interesting and/or relevant to our lives depending on who we are and how we set up the wiki. If it's primarily teachers, then writing things that come up about classroom management, student learning styles, assessment, using the web - these could be great ways to keep information organized with input from anyone who had additional information on the topic.
I know we tried to start a wiki here at Sonoma Valley HS, but too many people are not really into technology yet, and there doesn't seem to be a guiding organization either, so we'll see if we can't kick it up an notch next year!
Friday, June 19, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Week 6, Thing 15
Copyright, Creative Commons, and What's coming down the 2.0 road!
Copyright - the thing that makes you think twice as you xerox ® pages from a book. The thing that makes you think twice when you use the word 'xerox' ® as a verb. Makes me wonder if kleenex® and xerox® qualify as words in Scrabble®! I remember the brouhaha with David Letterman and his 'intellectual property' as he left NBC®.
I understand the need for artists and writers to benefit from their own work, and they deserve recognition and compensation. So with the amazing technologies we have via the internet, these issues are even more present. I was a little confused in this lesson - the cute video, a Fair(y) Tale, leaves me with the impression that copyrighted material is available under the Fair Use laws as early as 14 years. So does that mean you cannot make Fair Use of materials before 14 years? And why 14 years? The good news for educators is that there is a Fair Use clause that allows us to copy many things in the name of educating the next generation, as long as we don't benefit economically from the use of copyrighted material.
Then there is this thing called Creative Commons. "Creative Commons is a copyright license that allows us to choose to share our intellectual property. This course is designed under a Creative Commons license and is an example of how one can take a piece of information or a product and re-work it to make it fit your needs. By acknowledging the original authors, they have given permission for you to share." (Classroom Learning 2.0)
Above was an example of using someone else's words, but again, without a works cited page, I'm not sure how you credit the authors - so I posted the link. But let it be known to the copyright lawyers - the preceeding paragraph was lifted directly from the authors of the Classroom Learning 2.0 program. Thanks authors!
on to wikis!
Classroom Learning 2.0 - the 23 Things
Copyright - the thing that makes you think twice as you xerox ® pages from a book. The thing that makes you think twice when you use the word 'xerox' ® as a verb. Makes me wonder if kleenex® and xerox® qualify as words in Scrabble®! I remember the brouhaha with David Letterman and his 'intellectual property' as he left NBC®.
I understand the need for artists and writers to benefit from their own work, and they deserve recognition and compensation. So with the amazing technologies we have via the internet, these issues are even more present. I was a little confused in this lesson - the cute video, a Fair(y) Tale, leaves me with the impression that copyrighted material is available under the Fair Use laws as early as 14 years. So does that mean you cannot make Fair Use of materials before 14 years? And why 14 years? The good news for educators is that there is a Fair Use clause that allows us to copy many things in the name of educating the next generation, as long as we don't benefit economically from the use of copyrighted material.
Then there is this thing called Creative Commons. "Creative Commons is a copyright license that allows us to choose to share our intellectual property. This course is designed under a Creative Commons license and is an example of how one can take a piece of information or a product and re-work it to make it fit your needs. By acknowledging the original authors, they have given permission for you to share." (Classroom Learning 2.0)
Above was an example of using someone else's words, but again, without a works cited page, I'm not sure how you credit the authors - so I posted the link. But let it be known to the copyright lawyers - the preceeding paragraph was lifted directly from the authors of the Classroom Learning 2.0 program. Thanks authors!
on to wikis!
Classroom Learning 2.0 - the 23 Things
Monday, May 25, 2009
Week 6, Thing 14 - Technorati and tags
When I first explored Technorati I didn't really get it. The tutorial helped me understand how I could use this tool, and after signing up, the ideas started to flow.
They provide lists of blogs using tags so you can get a quick list with just the criteria you are looking for, and guess what- food and wine are a category. So I was able to increase my list of blog sites on my Delicious web page bookmarker. The up side is that they have a little blurb about each site, the down side - the only blogs they have are the ones people have 'claimed'- the blogs are the ones people voluntarily post to Technorati.
I do like this site, it certainly helped me get through many blog sites, more than I could have found with a search engine.
They provide lists of blogs using tags so you can get a quick list with just the criteria you are looking for, and guess what- food and wine are a category. So I was able to increase my list of blog sites on my Delicious web page bookmarker. The up side is that they have a little blurb about each site, the down side - the only blogs they have are the ones people have 'claimed'- the blogs are the ones people voluntarily post to Technorati.
I do like this site, it certainly helped me get through many blog sites, more than I could have found with a search engine.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Week 6, Thing 13 - Delicious
Yum! Delicious - again, it's not about food, although it will be. This is a bookmark aggregator - I actually used one in the Earn While You Learn, now called something else, program. I don't remember it having all the features that Delicious has, but I haven't visited it in a long time. So! Delicious. I do like it, it will take time to transfer all my bookmarks from all my computers to the site, but it is a place where I can get to my bookmarks from any computer, and I like that since I'm at home sometimes, in the computer labs and just can't remember that one site that the kid who finished early could go to so he can keep busy in a good way, or I bookmark something at home and have to send an email to myself with the link so I can get to it at school.
So Delicious has this wrapped up. All my bookmarks in one place - web based, accessible when I have the web (and if I don't have the web, bookmarks aren't going to help!) Plus other features like tagging - so I can tag all the math resources for kids that use technology with 'math' 'resources' and 'tech' tags and can search for my sites based on tags. You can name your own tags too, they aren't preset, so they have meaning to you.
I think Delicious covers some of the perks of Rollyo (see previous post), but with Delicious you can add a little commentary along with the web site URL and title that allows almost 1000 characters, so if you can sum it up in 1000 letters, well, . . .
And now about food - it is great for compiling all the food blogs, recipe sites and anything else related to cooking, such as finding equipment (I need a canner before my next batch of golden plums ripen on the tree so I'll have jam next winter!) or cooking classes, Ramekins being my favorite, but there may be others in Santa Rosa or the CIA in Napa.
And the really nice thing is that you can share your bookmarks and even better, find people with bookmarks that are shared with you. So when I find that rockin' chef and her bookmarks, I can widen my options ( like I need that - I have more recipes than I have time to cook given a basic 100 year life span - oh well!)
I see Delicious as a way to organize my sites, and then maybe Rollyo will make sense, since Rollyo can actually search the sites for something specific - is that true? I'll be looking into it, and I'll keep you 'posted' ( pun intended!)
So Delicious has this wrapped up. All my bookmarks in one place - web based, accessible when I have the web (and if I don't have the web, bookmarks aren't going to help!) Plus other features like tagging - so I can tag all the math resources for kids that use technology with 'math' 'resources' and 'tech' tags and can search for my sites based on tags. You can name your own tags too, they aren't preset, so they have meaning to you.
I think Delicious covers some of the perks of Rollyo (see previous post), but with Delicious you can add a little commentary along with the web site URL and title that allows almost 1000 characters, so if you can sum it up in 1000 letters, well, . . .
And now about food - it is great for compiling all the food blogs, recipe sites and anything else related to cooking, such as finding equipment (I need a canner before my next batch of golden plums ripen on the tree so I'll have jam next winter!) or cooking classes, Ramekins being my favorite, but there may be others in Santa Rosa or the CIA in Napa.
And the really nice thing is that you can share your bookmarks and even better, find people with bookmarks that are shared with you. So when I find that rockin' chef and her bookmarks, I can widen my options ( like I need that - I have more recipes than I have time to cook given a basic 100 year life span - oh well!)
I see Delicious as a way to organize my sites, and then maybe Rollyo will make sense, since Rollyo can actually search the sites for something specific - is that true? I'll be looking into it, and I'll keep you 'posted' ( pun intended!)
Monday, May 4, 2009
Week 5, Thing #12 - Roll your Own
No, this isn't about keeping Sonoma Valley HIGH - it's about search engines. I guess. Although for the life of me, I'm not really sure why this site has value. I am having a difficult time navigating through it. I created a mini-search engine, called it J5 Math Resources, but I don't see it unless I am logged in. After going through this site about 5 times, I finally discovered hundreds of other people with search engines, but wasn't able to access them. Could well be they are not open to the public - you have that option when you create a search roll. Oh, by the way, the site is called Rollyo, and it has limited options if you don't have an account. I could see using this for a project or for students to access, but would they need an account to see my search engine? I'm still working on this one - if anyone out there has other experiences or can clue me in to the usefulness of this tool, I would be grateful. I can see it may have potential - but it's difficult to navigate.
I know one thing that would be good to do before you create your mini-engine: have your list of URL's in one spot and ready to copy and paste - I can't tell you how many times I accidentally navigated away from Rollyo, only to find that my partially created, unsaved list was gone!!
Good luck, give me some feedback, I'd love to come back to this, but for now, I'm moving on to thing #13.
Classroom 2.0 - the 23 things
I know one thing that would be good to do before you create your mini-engine: have your list of URL's in one spot and ready to copy and paste - I can't tell you how many times I accidentally navigated away from Rollyo, only to find that my partially created, unsaved list was gone!!
Good luck, give me some feedback, I'd love to come back to this, but for now, I'm moving on to thing #13.
Classroom 2.0 - the 23 things
Week 5, Thing #11 part 2
Web 2.0 - wow, how much fun is this. The website I chose to investigate is Im Cooked - a sweet little place to find very homemade videos demonstrating all kinds of wizardry in the kitchen. They all last about 4-6 minutes, and cover something simple - but the one I am in awe of is this woman doing a six strand braid of Challah - and I just want to go home and make some bread. This looks so cool, and I know I never would have figured it out on my own. The link above will take you to her video.
Web 2.0 puts so much at our fingertips, it's amazing. I truly can't even imagine what the next generation - Web 3.0 - will offer - it just boggles the mind.
Classroom 2.0 - the 23 things
Web 2.0 puts so much at our fingertips, it's amazing. I truly can't even imagine what the next generation - Web 3.0 - will offer - it just boggles the mind.
Classroom 2.0 - the 23 things
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Week 5, Thing #11 - Web 2.0
From Wikipedia on Web 2.0 definition:
"Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. "
"Tim O'Reilly (founder of O'Reilly Media) states Web 2.0 is a set of economic, social, and technology trends that collectively form the basis for the next generation of the Internet—a more mature, distinctive medium characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects. (O'Reilly Radar,Principles and Best Practices, 2007)"
"More than just the latest technology buzzword, it’s a transformative force that’s propelling companies across all industries toward a new way of doing business. "
35 years ago I heard the first rumblings of the 'internet'. I worked for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, a subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph, and we were using a modem to connect from San Jose, California to the Bell Labs in New Jersey. It was one of those monster couplers where you push the receiver of the phone into the two receptacles to carry the signal over the phone lines.
At that time you had to have specific locations to navigate towards - you had to know where you were going ahead of time - no searching to see what's out there. The scientific community, especially in academic realm, was using the internet, but they knew each other's addresses and they were in url format. Take a look at a url after you have navigated through a few pages and you will see it's not something you want to remember!! Without the concepts of web 2.0 we wouldn't be able to use the web the way we do today. Imagine me telling you to remember this site to see the poster of Buddy in a previous blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aluckygirlproduction/3444443233/
who wants to remember all those numbers and letters??? and that's just one picture.
So I am grateful for the point and click convenience of web 2.0.
More on the web page I chose to investigate later. No surprise on the site though - it's I'm Cooked - a funny, funky little site where wanna be top chefs upload their own cooking demonstration videos. Honestly - you may want to bookmark this page - I think I'll try to put something up. Let's see if Jill beats me to it!
"Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. "
"Tim O'Reilly (founder of O'Reilly Media) states Web 2.0 is a set of economic, social, and technology trends that collectively form the basis for the next generation of the Internet—a more mature, distinctive medium characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects. (O'Reilly Radar,Principles and Best Practices, 2007)"
"More than just the latest technology buzzword, it’s a transformative force that’s propelling companies across all industries toward a new way of doing business. "
35 years ago I heard the first rumblings of the 'internet'. I worked for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, a subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph, and we were using a modem to connect from San Jose, California to the Bell Labs in New Jersey. It was one of those monster couplers where you push the receiver of the phone into the two receptacles to carry the signal over the phone lines.
At that time you had to have specific locations to navigate towards - you had to know where you were going ahead of time - no searching to see what's out there. The scientific community, especially in academic realm, was using the internet, but they knew each other's addresses and they were in url format. Take a look at a url after you have navigated through a few pages and you will see it's not something you want to remember!! Without the concepts of web 2.0 we wouldn't be able to use the web the way we do today. Imagine me telling you to remember this site to see the poster of Buddy in a previous blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aluckygirlproduction/3444443233/
who wants to remember all those numbers and letters??? and that's just one picture.
So I am grateful for the point and click convenience of web 2.0.
More on the web page I chose to investigate later. No surprise on the site though - it's I'm Cooked - a funny, funky little site where wanna be top chefs upload their own cooking demonstration videos. Honestly - you may want to bookmark this page - I think I'll try to put something up. Let's see if Jill beats me to it!
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