ink for them to sign up. Literally, not two minutes had passed before I linked to the member page to see how many had made it in OK and found that three or four of them had not only navigated to their member page, but had already set their own template up and had uploaded avatars and music to their member page player. These kids are not internet social newbies. This is their world.
Kids these days know the net backwards and forwards without us. They live and breathe it. It seems kind of silly to me to be so worried about blocking them from sites when in their own free time at home they surf and know the net better than we do. My teens and I discuss the net quite a lot. It is a family passion. They are quite open about the frustrations of image searches that turn up images they find off-search and inappropriate, of site offers that are just spam-list generators, of e-mail that is infuriatingly difficult to weed through because of bot-mailing, etc. They have had to learn the ropes of avoiding the pitfalls of the net -often before I have even been aware of the pitfalls existing myself. I am proud to see maturity in their outlook and handling of the net. We cannot protect them forever, but we can give them a good foundation for judging what is good and safe from what is harmful or a lure.…
"voice" helps a lot there. However, let's see how much we can do that here for @nlowell's sake...
I'm specifically interested in drilling down on:
1) What can we do that would really make the project most useful in a big-picture way? What audience we are hoping to help, and why would we create such a resource? Why not just use our wiki for this? Is there something about being able to download or print or give to others a "book" that would increase understanding and adoption?
2) What is the best form for the ongoing *work* of the project? A wiki? Google Docs? Something else? Do we use one method to create and edit it, and another to dissseminate?
3) If this is a "book," is it possible to create a form for this project that significantly reduces the administrative tasks, so that updating and re-distribution are easy?
4) What would be the best way to get and then manage broad and inclusive participation? Do we create a larger outline and then ask for volunteers to write specific parts, giving them a "chapter template?" How do we feel if certain topics don;t get covered? If more than one person wants to work on a specific topic, do we encourage independent contributions or joint efforts?
5) What licensing choices should we make in advance so as to facilitate contribution but not constrain dissemination?
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5) Is it possible to…
weekend when I conference with others (kill two birds with one stone).
EFL Classroom 2.0 is a busy place filled with many teachers who are the technology sparkplugs of their part of the world. Fully non profit and funded through my own pocket and belief in technology to make a difference in this world. It would be great if Scribblar could provide a solution for us and in return we could offer main page advertising. We get enough traffic to promote.
The problems I've had have been finding something "stable" and also simple enough. On the face of it scribblr seems so. I've been using a gchats room and while good, it just is too big a learning curve for many. Others like elluminate or the veraconference room we have -- have other drawbacks.
I'd love to discuss but also a related matter. I note your expertise in flash/flash video and I'm busy designing with partners a commercial job advertising site (for English teachers/employers -- nobody as yet offers a web 2.0 solution in this area) which will be integrating video recording. I am looking for some advice or consultancy about what is the best solution (teachers would record on their page a 30 sec. video / employers could view). If you have any ideas about the best way to do this and integrate, I'd love to find out.
Thanks for lending me your ear. Wishing you a happy new year,
David…
ation. This could be in the form of a wiki or a downloadable PDF file, or both, and would involve the outlining of the the book's contents, then working together to write it. We would want chapters introducing Web 2.0 principles and pedagogies, specific technologies by category (blogs, wikis, social networks, etc.), and give lots of practical examples of their actual use both for classroom application and professional development.
Of course, the content will need to be updated and/or changed with some regularity, but if this idea is a good one, we could schedule to do minor changes every 6 months and major changes every year.
If we were to have a print version (Lulu?), or if a publisher (dreaming?) wanted to pick it up, we could use any revenues to help sponsor the free workshop series.
There are a number of questions we'd have to answer if we decided to do this: how do we delegate and oversee contributions, who would do final edits, what platform would we use to write it (wiki, Google docs, other?), what license to release it under, and many more I'm sure you will think of that I haven't. I'm going to propose that we hold an Elluminate session to talk these through and do the initial organizing, but before we do so I thought it might be good to get some feedback from you first.
Do you like the idea? Do you have any initial thoughts?…
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And here's the information:
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern / 1:00 AM GMT (on Friday). FIXED TIME LINK. Links to video and audio recordings of the session will be available here soon afterwards.
Maggie Tsai, co-founder of Diigo and her special guest, Jennifer Dorman, will demo and discuss the first phase of "Diigo Educator Account:" a suite of features that makes it easy for teachers to get their entire class of students or their peers started on collaborative research using Diigo's web annotation and social bookmarking technology. For reference: Peggy Steffens - "Diigo ~ 21st Century Tool for Research, Reading, and Collaboration" http://www.amphi.com/~technology/techtalks/online/nov08/bestpract.htm
To join the event at the time, click on the following URL:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.48E63F72A6B22156092010DFDE4A1F
To test your system in advance for compatibility with Elluminate, visit this Web page:
http://www.elluminate.com/support/…
ssions in elluminate open to anyone, anywhere – local, national and global
A ning has already been set up on the theme of “guide to innovation” in education, with members already registering. Goto Knowledge Bank if you wish to particpate in the online sessions. The organizers want people to stay connected after the conference, especially with the presenters whose ideas they would like to use in their own school, classroom or other facility (eg Royal Children’s hospital) People will have a range of experiences with various web2.0 tools, ranging from NIL to advanced. One of the conditions of presenting is that we maintain contact with those who wish to learn more.
My questions are:-
How do we get obtain their details to connect them to the presenter(s) (assuming they are not capable of dealing with a ning yet)? I am suggesting a google doc and associated survey form embedded on an appropriate website. Could we use their mobile phones on the day to grab the data? Is there an online collection site somewhere? (Remember we are in Australia). Twitter has been suggested but that could also be way beyond many of them. Do you have suggestions? What have you done or been involved in?…
ce 2 weeks before Google's takeover, the project manager app is marvelous, but what's the point if other people can't join?
Re wikispaces, there is one small problem: no notification if someone else is already editing the same page. I remember an online course (TappedIn or Elluminate, not sure which) where the instructor sent us all to practice on a given wikispaces page. The chat of the course platform filled with angry protests at people's seeing their edits disappear. So I used the discussion part of the page to create a new page just for me ;-)
Another wikioid useful tool, not yet mentioned in this thread: Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Wikioid because the history is rather imprecise, but it's nice if you want to collaborate privately on a project. With 2 colleagues in Kinshasa, we used it to translate 2 tutorials (70 pages) on ePortfolios last December. We had a table of content page with the description of and links to all parts and names of who was translating which, and a glossary spreadsheet to unify terminology. The glossary is public - not the translation itself, for copyright reasons.
On the whole, though, if privacy is a requirement I would prefer to use a private real wiki and a spreadsheet on Google Docs & Spreadsheet if we needed one for the project, cross-linking them. The "table of content" Google Docs page is a possible work-around, but a rather awkward one.…
nly technology available. Online, it never is, but go with your comfort level here. All *I* ask is there there are multiple ways to contribute and that voice isn't the only channel.
1. If our mission is to illuminate "the uses and impact of Web 2.0 in education" then I think we have at least two if not three audiences. Teachers, administrators, and legislators. I'm not sure if we go with students. My contributory question on this part is "which teachers?" pK-12? pK-20?
As for the distribution questions, if we want the broadest adoption, we write it as a book and submit the manuscript to somebody like St Martin's Press for actual deadtree publication even tho it'll be obsolete by the time it ever gets a galley proof. Personally, I think there are enough people online to make it worth doing electronically, but I also we should be pretty frank in the assessment that we'd be lucky to get even the 13000 members of CR20 to read it. Compared to the 8-10million "educators" in the US alone, thats a drop in the bucket, but it's still a start. In a certain sense we'd be preaching to the choir where a dead-tree version would be available to those who've heard that there's kool-aid but haven't tasted it yet. (My verbosity reflects my ambivalence here)
2. I'm partial to wiki's .. specifically mediawiki. It has what I think are the right levels of protection, history, format, and discussion. It's also what I'm most familiar with and I can work with google docs, if needed.
3. I think we need to define "book" before we can answer this.
4. Det--Devil--ails.
5. My vote: CC-BY-AT…
ts will be at the Math 2.0 wiki: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/July+29th+2009+Engaging+students+in+online+math+courses
This week's meeting, about discuss engaging students in online math courses, is hosted by Maria Andersen, or @busynessgirl on Twitter. Maria Andersen is a college math instructor at Muskegon Community College (in Michigan). She is also the CEO of Andersen Algebra Consulting LLC, an educational consulting business. Through the business, she does some contract work for textbook companies, educational software companies, and schedule speaking engagements. You probably have seen Maria's awesome site "Teaching College Math": http://teachingcollegemath.com/
If you want to receive more news about Math 2.0 interest group happenings and events, and talk about issues of mathematics and social media, we have just started a mailing list for it: http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/subscribe
Each host selects his or her online meeting venue for the evening. So far, we had "field trips" to Twitter and Elluminate, with Tapped In, WizIQ, Second Life and other interesting venues coming up soon, too. If you are interested in hosting a session, please let me know, or add yourself to the Event page: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events…
ts will be at the Math 2.0 wiki: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/July+29th+2009+Engaging+students+in+online+math+courses
This week's meeting, about discuss engaging students in online math courses, is hosted by Maria Andersen, or @busynessgirl on Twitter. Maria Andersen is a college math instructor at Muskegon Community College (in Michigan). She is also the CEO of Andersen Algebra Consulting LLC, an educational consulting business. Through the business, she does some contract work for textbook companies, educational software companies, and schedule speaking engagements. You probably have seen Maria's awesome site "Teaching College Math": http://teachingcollegemath.com/
If you want to receive more news about Math 2.0 interest group happenings and events, and talk about issues of mathematics and social media, we have just started a mailing list for it: http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/subscribe
Each host selects his or her online meeting venue for the evening. So far, we had "field trips" to Twitter and Elluminate, with Tapped In, WizIQ, Second Life and other interesting venues coming up soon, too. If you are interested in hosting a session, please let me know, or add yourself to the Event page: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events…