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Hometown:: Long Beach, CA

School / Work Affiliation: K12 Handhelds

About Me:: I work with schools and education organizations across the country to integrate technology. My areas of particular interest are one-to-one computing, mobile technology, and open education.

My open ed site: http://www.k12opened.com
My open ed blog: http://www.k12opened.com/blog

Blog:: http://www.k12handhelds.com/blog

Website:: http://www.k12handhelds.com

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Mashup, current events, and the elections

My latest mashup is on news-related podcasts and the upcoming elections. I hope some of you can use these resources. Please encourage everyone in your sphere of influence to vote this Nov.!

Posted on October 16, 2008 at 4:16pm —

Hard policy questions about student blogging

I have been having some interesting discussions in the last couple weeks about a challenging, but important, policy question for you: Should all student blogging (in a school environment) be moderated? I invite you to think about this and post your comments here. Thanks for the discussion. ---------------------------- [cross-posted from Mobile Musings] A question for you: Should all student blogging… Continue

Posted on October 7, 2008 at 4:00pm —

Vocab ideas I'm excited about

I have been thinking a lot about vocabulary lately. It seems to me that it's such a fundamental part of academic success and something that lends itself to technology and potentially building some great reusable resources. Then I read Marzano's "Classroom Instruction That Works," a must-read if you haven't read it (though I mi… Continue

Posted on September 8, 2008 at 4:57pm — 1 Comment

Huh?

I got this in an email today: "Come see the launch of Edubook 2.0 in the Educational Publishing Pavilion (EPP), Hall 4.2. EduBook 2.0, the next generation textbook from MindPicture Institute of Technology features revolutionary technology. In our books, every abstract point is visualized by a unified image that exactly reflects its essential abstract meaning. Through reading these integrations of images and text, the audience will intuitively understand and easily remember the abstract content.… Continue

Posted on August 27, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Wanting the education world to change faster -- we're in a funk

Many in the edublogger community are in a funk this summer. The enumerated reasons vary, but for many, it seems to have to do with trying to change the world and then watching it pretty much stay the same. After NECC, I personally am left with a strong sense of “preaching to the choir.” The vast majority of people who go to ed tech conf… Continue

Posted on July 10, 2008 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

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At 5:25pm on December 2, 2008, Chris Lambert said…: thanks, i enjoyed your class today i learned some things that i can further explore

At 8:01am on December 2, 2008, Faye Shaffer said…: Thanks for the Web 2.0 workshop. I feel ready to start.
Enjoy,
Faye

At 8:19pm on October 7, 2008, Kevin said…: I appreciate the conversation you started and enjoy your thinking very much!

At 3:12pm on October 1, 2008, Steve O'Connor said…: Wow--thanks! I really think that point gets lost in the Web 2.0 education world.

Steve

At 2:38pm on October 1, 2008, Steve O'Connor said…: Yes, this is difficult for me too as I am absolutely passionate about this. I am so passionate, that my biological children 9 and 12 year old have had their own domain names and web presence without my moderation for a couple years. They ask before they do something anyway, but they have the ability to put up whatever the want. They can install any software that they like.

This is what I am lobbying for my fifth grade:

Everything moderated
Parent choice on access to content
Use of pseudonyms

And I will lobby my parents passionately to consent to "open to the world." I did it last year and it went great. Not one problem.

I like the website and wonder how it is that I have not run into it sooner!

At 1:56pm on October 1, 2008, Steve O'Connor said…: Regarding the policy issues:

I have come to the conclusion that there needs to be a formal school board approved policy on this matter that has been drafted and approved by the technology committee.

Without going into details, for political reasons--really nothing to do with technology, some of what I have been done was called into question-- even though it was well known what I was doing and had the approval of our superintendent.

While there were no real problems as a consequence, it led me to come to the position that I would not leave myself vulnerable in the future. Nor should anyone else in my opinion.

We are in the middle of drafting a policy in a subcommittee. It's tough because there really isn't much out there. I plan on blogging more about that real soon as I need to present something to discuss next Wednesday.

I agree that teaching responsibility is important. What is your school and community willing to accepts? How do the parents feel?

I plan on offering a range of options to parents, but I'm not sure that I could get the school to accepts unmoderated posts and replies.

Regarding Administration and moderation:

Yes, it can get to be a load. I think it best to start small with a few teachers who are highly motivated, and they in turn, start with one class. In our school, teachers who wanted their students to blog were responsible for moderation.

Make sure you have good spam mechanisms in place because if you don't, you will have a lot more to deal with.

Let me know if I can help. Perhaps I should set up an Elgg community so we have a place to toss these ideas around. It something that I'd like to see more collaboration on and I have been frustrated by lack of resources.

At 7:54pm on September 30, 2008, Mike said…: I agree there are a number of inappropriate widgets available for a starter page. I've mentioned this in some of the feedback I've given on Google Apps for Ed. but nothing has changed yet. The administrator can turn the feature off pretty easily - so I think it's best to just not have an iGoogle starter page.

At 11:44am on September 23, 2008, Michelle TeGrootenhuis (aka "Mrs.TG") said…: Hi Karen,
My kiddos are using 21classes.com. I did not have to enter email addresses and I could set it up so that I approve everything that gets published. I DID end up going with the PAID subscription, because they kids really wanted to be able to add pictures, and with the free version, there's just not enough memory to add more than a handful for the entire site. So far I am pleased with the site. It's been down only once late at night when I wanted to review entries from home. You can view our class blog front page by going to www.mrstg.com and clicking in "student blogs" right in the middle.
Good luck!

At 8:29pm on September 9, 2008, Karen Maginnis said…: Hi, Karen - I answered you about the Voki on MY page! Oops - I don't know the etiquette for these things! Here's the link, let me know if it doesn't work!

At 3:46pm on September 4, 2008, Tim Bedley said…: Hi Karen!
Yes, almost neighbors. In fact, I'm originally from LB. Thanks a TON for all of the valuable information. I may be contacting you about doing a partnership on a grant. That sounds really cool.
Thanks again!

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