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Blog Mini-Teach

mccrayt2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:52:25 CST

Ideas:
1. Vlogging- video blogging
2. Twitter
3. Wordpress/blogspot

Definition: a website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other materials such as graphics or videos; a contraction of the term "web-log".

History:

Twitter - Work on the project started on March 31, 2006. @Jack is Jack Dorsey, who was the Ceo until recently. Originally, it was known as Twttr.

Twitter has been around for over three years. Twitter was founded by Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and Evan Williams, and was unknown to many until the 2008 presidential election — which catapulted it to stardom.

From the geeks, to the election, to celeb involvement and now the general public (there are currently around six million registered Twitter users), Twitter's popularity is certainly soaring.

http://www.manolith.com/2009/06/21/the-story-so-far-of-twitter/

Key Features:

Twitter - Because Twitter uses 140 characters or less to tell what is happening or what you are doing, it cuts out long statuses. It keeps people informed of current events without getting lengthy. It is also a good way to keep up with celebrities, politicians, and also friends. Due to the fact that tweets can be sent to your phone, it makes it highly mobile.

Educational Value – How can it be used in the classroom?

Twitter - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

Twitter can take many technologies that teachers currently use, such as listserv and emails, and turn it into one. The updates can be used to remind students or tests, make an announcment, or a way to quickly cancel class. Because Twitter updates can be sent to your mobile phone, news travels faster and a computer is not necessary to find out class information. There are many other applications that can be used along with Twitter. PollDaddy can be used to get a quick and effective poll of fellow classmates. Students and teachers can also follow politicians, keep up with current events or news stories with sources such as @CNNMoney.

Resources for Future Learning - Provide 3 digital resources (URLs) such as tutorials, templates, software downloads, etc. which will assist classmates to independently learn the new technology at a later date.

Twitter - http://help.twitter.com/portal

Future Teaching - Provide 5 URLs that support classmates using the innovation for future teaching in a variety of situations (e.g., lessons, handouts, articles).

Twitter - http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

http://makingconnectionsfye1220.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/assignment-48-hours-of-twitter/

VLOGGING

Definition- Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging or vidblogging is a form of blogging for which the medium is video, and is a form of internet television. Entries are made regularly and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text and images. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts.

Brief History- Blogging was initiated in 2005 in conjunction with the founding of YouTube, the world’s largest and most commonly used video blogging site.

Key Features- Vlogging helps you to not only express your feelings as you normally would through writing but through actual live video expression. It can be posted and viewed all over the world which allows others to comment.

How can it be used in the classroom?- Teachers, students Teacher Example

Digital Resource- How To

Future Teaching - Video Blogging,

MINI TEACH Group 5: Picnik

dovera3 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:22:38 CST

Your Topic
Definition
Brief History
Key Features
Educational Value – How can it be used in the classroom?
Resources for Future Learning - Provide 3 digital resources (URLs) such as tutorials, templates, software downloads, etc. which will assist classmates to independently learn the new technology at a later date
Future Teaching - Provide 5 URLs that support classmates using the innovation for future teaching in a variety of situations (e.g., lessons, handouts, articles).

http://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Picnik

Digital Storytelling

horowitze2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:31:06 CDT

Educational Value

Digital storytelling is a unique and intriguing way to engage students. It can be accomplished using programs such as Microsoft Photo Story 3, PowerPoint, and Windows Movie Maker. These programs can be a useful aid when teaching about virtually any subject. This teaching tool will be especially helpful to the majority of your students, who are visual and audio learners. Students with other learning preferences will find that it is still a fun way to have information presented to them.

As a teacher, you can adjust the presentation to appropriately fit any age level. For example, for an elementary science class that is learning about the life cycle of a monarch butterfly, a presentation can be made using your own photos or others' displaying its different stages. For a high school-level biology class, a presentation of photos can be made explaining about how to properly dissect a fetal pig.

From a student's perspective, digital storytelling is a means of creative expression to reflect what he or she has learned. For example, students in a beginning-level modern language class could create their own digital story using personal photos and present it in the given modern language.

This program is valuable in every classroom, to teachers and students alike.

To learn more about Microsoft Photo Story 3...

Classroom Resources for Teachers

Lesson Plan Ideas for Math
Lesson Plan Ideas for History

Technology Ideas

campbellj3 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:10:38 CDT

List 3 ways you could use Digital Storytelling in your classroom:
Justin Campbell:

1. In order to help students analyze the relationship between character and the plot aspect of setting in literary texts (Standard E1-1.4), I could assign students a project in which they create additional characters for the novel Great Expectations and use digital storytelling to place the characters in various settings of the novel and illustrate how the new characters would respond to the different settings.
2. In order to help students analyze the effect of an author's use of imagery and tone in literary texts (Standard E1-1.5), I could assign students a project in which they use digital story telling to illustrate poems. The students could tell the "story" of a poem by using pictures obtained through research or taken with a digital camera. They could add captions to the pictures and even add music to set the tone for the story.
3. In order to teach students how to decide when to use Standard English and when to use vernacular English (Standard E1-4.4), I could create a digital story. I could create scenes in which using Standard English is appropriate and scenes in which using vernacular English is appropriate. Parts of speech could be characters in the story, and rules of grammar could be illustrated with pictures.

As an educator, how will you teach/promote digital citizenship in your classroom?

Mini-Teach Group 3: Garageband

campbellj3 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:33:56 CDT

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Cloud Tags

msb621 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:38:22 CDT

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Social Bookmarking.

bowmant4 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:37:22 CDT

Social bookmarking.

Hand helds

saleebyh2 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:36:21 CDT

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Sprouse 275 Technology Innovations Home

dovera3 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:27:09 CDT

Welcome EDUC275 students to our class wiki. You will need to add a page for your technology innovation and then include the following information on your page:

Your Topic
Definition
Brief History
Key Features
Educational Value – How can it be used in the classroom?
Resources for Future Learning - Provide 3 digital resources (URLs) such as tutorials, templates, software downloads, etc. which will assist classmates to independently learn the new technology at a later date
Future Teaching - Provide 5 URLs that support classmates using the innovation for future teaching in a variety of situations (e.g., lessons, handouts, articles).

Have fun.

Digital Citizenship

ssprouse — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:09:07 CDT

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Pod Cast

Cokert2 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:05:12 CST

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Wiki

ssprouse — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:06:26 CDT

The WIKI Wiki (content origination: https://wiki.asu.edu/innovationsf06tth1100)
Contributors: Teresa Foulger, Lisa Harris

History Behind the WIKI

Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and later installed in on his company's website on March 25, 1995 as a way for programmars to share information. Wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick. Cunningham was referring to the quickness with which a wiki can be edited. Wiki is also interpreted as "what I know is" but this is a "backronym."

According to Cunningham, the use of wiki can be traced back to a HyperCard stack he wrote in the late 1980s. In the late 1990s, wikis were increasingly recognized as a promising way to develop private- and public-knowledge bases. This potential inspired the founders of the Nupedia encyclopedia project, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, to use wiki technology as a basis for an electronic encyclopedia: Wikipedia was launched in January 2001.

Main Characteristics and Features

Users can:

Read and navigate through pages like a regular web site.
Modify any page (that is open to edit) by clicking the "Edit" link on that page. Click "Save" and your changes are INSTANTLY published for others to see.
Watch Wikis in Plain English, or See How It Works for more information

Features:

A wiki allows documents to be written collaboratively. This is done by allowing multiple people to contribute to the wiki via the internet or via hyperlinks.
Wikis remain up to date due to their pages being updated with ease through the collaborative process. Updates are almost instantanious.
Most wikis are open to the general public, while others require a user name and password to view and alter its contents.
When page changes have been made, there is a email sent of notification for any members who have request as such.
Changes to wikis are documented, and an author can revert to an older version, thus eliminating the need for control!

Two Popular Wikis

Things to Remember About Wiki Content (and things to teach kids about!)

Not all wiki's have accurate information.
Only secure wiki's have more reliable information.
Other sources should be used to confirm information found on a wiki.

General Wiki Uses

This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.

To share documents with anyone on your server or over the net.
In business settings for file sharing and other helpful hints for coworkers.
In the classroom for students to work collaboratively on projects.
For teachers to share lesson plans, activities, ideas and much more.
More Uses

Wiki Ideas for Educators

Examples for emementary, middle and high school wikis
Wikis in the Classroom

An example of how a 'teacher' uses a wiki for the 'classroom' (it's like blackboard...just not).
In the Classroom

Examples from PBWiki

Wiki's used for 'parent-teacher sign-ups'.
http://613signup.wikispaces.com/home

Wiki used like an 'agenda', letting the class know what they are going to be studying, chapter reviews and review questions.
http://hwpsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/6th+Grade+Topics+and+Links

Wiki used for 'class discussions'.
Class Discussions

A Multi Purpose link to using wikis for:

video presentations.
share your wiki.
upload files/pictures.
and much more.

Wiki Resources

1. Where to Create A New Wiki: JotSpot, OddWiki, PeanutButterWiki, SeedWiki, Wiki.com, Socialtext, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Wikispaces are nine such services.

2. How to Edit a Wetpaint Wiki: http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/page/EasyEdit?t=anon

3. How to add a page to a Wetpaint Wiki: http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/page/Add+Page

References

(2000). What is a wiki. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from Wiki Web Web site: http://www.wikiweb.com/intro1.shtml/

Rose, S. (2006). Uses for wikis. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from Participatory Media Literacy Web site:
http://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/index.cgi?uses_for_wikis

(2007, January 28). Wiki. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from Wikipedia Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIKI

Wikipedia:Tutorial. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from Wikipedia Web site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

Garnet, (2004, June 2). Garnet 's 30 second wiki tutorial. Retrieved January 30, 2007, from 30 second wiki turorial Web
site: http://www.chat11.com/Related_To_30_Second_Quick_Wiki_Tutorial

(2002). Project forum. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from Course forum technologies Web site:
http://www.projectforum.com/pf/wiki.html?ref=googlewiksea11

How to edit a page. (2007). In Wikipedia Web. San Diego: Retrieved January 29, 2007, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Examples