We just got my son a new/used car today–a VW Beetle. While we were waiting to pick up the car, a sign in the dealership caught my eye. “On the road of life, there are passengers and there are drivers. Drivers wanted.” It struck me that this is a perfect analogy for web 2.0 tools. [...]
Entries from January 30th, 2007
Challenges of using web sources
January 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · EthicsChallenge
On his blog 2 Cents Worth, David Warlick posts a question for teachers for an article which will appear in May’s issue of Cable in the Classroom. What is your greatest challenge in teaching appropriate, ethical use of web-based media to your students?” Since we have discussed that question here frequently, I would be interested [...]
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The human network
January 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
[youtube]x60pWzJvb9Q[/youtube] Cisco’s new ad campaign, “Welcome to the Human Network,” beautifully captures the myriad of ways our students can now connect with the world. Cisco also provides a place to contribute your own “network” story at http://www.cisco.com/web/thehumannetwork/index.html. I love their slogan–”On the human network people decide what’s possible.” This is what the new web tools are all about and what appeals to [...]
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Favorite poem project
January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
Students seem naturally attracted to poetry, and yet studying it sometimes has negative connotations for them. One of our teachers, Nancy Donaldson, shared with me a great site for engaging students with poems in a more personal way. It’s called the Favorite Poem Project, begun by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The feature that most [...]
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Tracking your own library
January 20th, 2007 · No Comments · libraries, Web 2.0
Will Richardson, (who by the way is coming to speak here on February 6!) shared two great sites for those of you who love books or want a way to keep up with your books. Library Thing and Shelfari both allow you to easily catalog and share your own book collection, but with the [...]
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Connecting the dots (pt two)
January 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Future students, Research
Home for yet another ice day, so I am catching up on my reading! Another item in the Columbia Journalism review article I mentioned yesterday struck me as interesting for research. As one effort to change the Times-Herald paper, “When (editor)Levine took over, his paper began a ‘sourcing project,’ designed to force reporters to [...]
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Connecting the dots
January 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Research
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Mitchell Stephens writes a fascinating analysis of how the availability and immediacy of news on the web is changing mainstream newspapers. It strikes me that many of his findings have implications for our teaching and our students. “News now not only arrives astoundingly fast from an astounding number of directions, it arrives free of [...]
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21st century skills in the workplace?
January 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Future students, Uncategorized
Text messaging while in class, listening to an iPod, and skimming through Google links, the behaviors our students are demonstrating in the classroom are the ones they are also carrying into the workplace. This post on Assorted Stuff drew my attention to the Pew Internet study, Digital Natives Invade the Workplace, (among other studies on Pew’s site). The study [...]
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Greatest thing since sliced bread?
January 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Tools
I was talking with a group of teachers yesterday, and one remarked, ‘I just love the internet.’ Everyone sitting there concurred immediately. Another teacher commented now when her students ask her something, she can just turn to her computer and immediately find the answer instead of telling them, she doesn’t know or isn’t sure. Now, [...]
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A tribute
January 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · libraries, Uncategorized
On a personal note, I would like to pay tribute to Beth Rogers. For those readers outside our campus, Beth was the librarian at our ninth grade center, a facility which is attached to my library. She passed away this morning after a several year struggle with cancer. She was vivacious, spirited, and smart. I hate [...]
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