It's Elementary

It's Elementary #23 Tech in School- A Principal's Perspective

mariaknee — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:43:38 -0500

We were joined this week by Stephen Lewis, principal of Oak Ridge Elementary. Stephen shared his experiences as principal of a Title One school and how technology is present in the school. Alice Mercer is the tech integrator at the school. Stephen and Alice discussed the issues, joys and challenges of their work. We continued to stream for part of our post show.

Next show - October 6, 2008 where we will talk about the K12Online Conference with the conference conveners.
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It's Elementary Show #11 - Tagging to a New Taxonomy

mariaknee — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:50:06 -0600

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

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It's Elementary Show #10 - Copyright, It's the Law!

mariaknee — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:34:39 -0600

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.

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It's Elementary Show #9 - At the K12Online Conference

mariaknee — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:46:53 -0500

We continue our conversation about the K12 Online Conference. The show includes Jose Rodriguez, third grade teacher in Los Angeles CA, Alice Mercer, an elementary computer lab teacher in Sacramento, CA, Maria Knee, a kindergarten teacher from Deerfield, NH. Lisa Durff, a K12 teacher in Maryland was unable to join us for this show. We share some impressions and reactions to the presentations and discuss what we look forward to viewing during the upcoming week.

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It's Elementary #2 Webquests, Analyze This!

coordinator2 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:55:20 -0500

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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