Back with Alice, Jose, and Matthew for more thoughts on the CUE Conference from Palm Springs, CA. James Sigler and Matt Montagne also stop by to join the conversation.
We welcomed Mathew Needleman who discussed Video in the Classroom.
Maria was unable to join us due to her mother's birthday (happy
birthday to you!), Alice discussed attending Mathew's presentation at CUE last
week. Her blog post is here it includes links to his presentation. We touched on...
Our guest, Jennifer Dorman, gave lots of great information about using RSS in education.
We defined RSS feeds (sorta like a magazine subscription, but online);
We discussed why you would want to use it as a teacher, and in your classroom;
We shared examples of how we use it (sometimes for ourselves and
our professional development, sometimes to automate information given
to and from students); and
One issue that came up was the lack of RSS on content pages geared towards students. We've used feeds from Highlights, and Discovery Science.
If you have other elementary-age content that has an RSS feed, please
share it on in our Diigo group, or here as a comment. Thanks!
With our Guest Steve Hargadon. Steve shares his insights about tagging with us.
Our discussion included use of tagging in blogs, pictures, in social bookmarking, at conferences, and with our students.
Steve talked about the purpose and structure of tagging. We use
tags on content we produce so that it is useful to others on the net.
The use of tags in social bookmarking such as del.icio.us and diggo
are examples. We are able to see how others tag content on the web.
We can tag our own content using similar taxonomy or create our own.
Steve reminded us that there is tension between using standardized tags
versus a more independent free flowing tag system. We can use
technorati and or Blog search engines like google to make sense of all
the content.
At NECC 2007
session specific tags were proposed and adopted by the community. This
standardized form of tagging allowed for aggregation session specific
content. The same system is also used in classroom 2.0 to standardize the way blog posts and other content is tagged.
Our next show will be on January 14th, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific / 7:00 p.m. Eastern. at Edtechtalk
Our guest for this show is Aimee Bissonette whose legal practice
focuses on copyright and trademark law, as well as rights licensing
issues. Alice presents a case study to inform teachers about copyright
and how it affects multimedia projects that you post on the web.
This week we discuss the subject of homelessness, and I play a clip from an interview that I during a social services fair in Victoria, BC as part of Homelessness Action Week.We also talked about the self-advocacy work being done by and for homeless individuals at Homeless Nation
I was joined by Dave Cormier, Alice Mercer, Jeff Flynn and Arthus -- thanks to them and all who joined us in the text chat.
35:01 minutes (16.04 MB)I'm joined by Alex Ragone, Cheryl Oakes, Cathy Evanoff, Lisa Durff, Susan Ettenheim and Alice Mercer as we consider some questions that Alex has for edtechtalk webcasters ahead of a k12onlineconference presentation he has coming up.
Come and listen as we talk about our projects. This is our Back to School Special. The It's Elementary Team; Lisa Durff, Maria Knee, Alice Mercer and Jose Rodriguez. As the Webcastathon begins to wind down the Chat Room was buzzing. We had some of our regulars and special visitors from New Zealand. Hope you enjoy the show!
46:22 minutes (21.23 MB)It was another great show with James Gates of Tipline - Gates? Computer Tips
taking us through Moodle, and it's features. Jim was excited and
passionate about this subject as you'll be able to tell from the show
audio.
Our Diigo links
for this show include some school sites using moodle. Many have guest
sign-in that will let you look at pages without editing privileges.
Please join us on September 24th, 2007 for a discussion of social networks in Education with John Pederson.
Our next show will be on Monday September 10 at 4 p.m. PDT/6 p.m.
CDT/8 p.m. EDT, on the subject of the use of Moodle in the elementary
classroom with our guest, James Gates of http://eduspaces.net/jamesg/weblog Join us then, at http://edtechtalk.com/chat!
Our Diigo links which include more podcasting resources than we could cover in a 30 minute show. Check them out if you'd like more information.
Our next show will be on Monday August 27 at 4 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. CDT/8
p.m. EDT, on the subject of essentials for Web 2.0 in the elementary
classroom with our guest, Christopher Shively, from On the Trails to Teaching and Learning. Join us then, at http://edtechtalk.com/chat!
We had a great show discussing Webquests in the elementary classroom.
First, we shared the wiki that we used to plan this show. Then we defined what a Webquest is and talked about Bernie Dodge, who is the "father" of Webquests.
Lisa shared a Webquest template and Jose Rodriguez, shared the Webquest he is using with his summer school class. We then went through some resources, which can be found on our Diigo list.
Here is a great slideshow on Webquests:
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We were then joined by Lisa Parisi who discussed work she had done with her students using the internet for inquiry based research.
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