Links for the Day 03/30/2008

Diigo and Ripples | Black Diamondtags: connectingpeople, education, hz08, hzmeta, virtualcollabThis teacher is contributing and participating in projects and his enthusiasm is spilling over into class discussions (imagine that) -- Steve has helped us proofread our horizon templates and create a page for internet safety for the students that they will be adding to. It is this type of professional educator that makes projects like...

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Annotated Links 03/30/2008

ABC News: Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key? Annotatedtags: coolcatteacher, digitalcitizenship, edu_trends, educationThis is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.Quotes from the Article:Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, has long studied "the Net generation," the first to have...

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Chris Pirillo talks about Drupal: How did he do this?

I am very impressed with how Chris Pirillo does this video. (I love the video and the chat at the bottom.) I know of several people who really like the Drupal and find it interesting. Of course, for me, for now, Ning is perfect and I don't have to do the upgrades behind the scenes, but I can see a great case for Drupal where you have embedded tech support.This video is literally brilliant! (I've always enjoyed Chris, ever since...

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Links for the Day 03/29/2008

I'm testing the feature that lets me post annotations and links from diigo to here. I know that many of you are getting sick of hearing of this little tool and if you're a beginner, perhaps you should wait, however, for me, I'm finding it useful. Forgive me as I learn to work through the kinks here. It may be bumpy at first, but this gives me a more robust way to share links -- many of you have e-mailed me that you like my link...

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Content Filtration: A little dirt for your health?

This was literally my first post on Tech Learning back in November of 2006 and I forgot to cross post it over here. I find myself referring back to it a lot as content filtration policies come under review and I wanted to share it here. I believe it is still relevant today.Content Filtration: A little dirt for your health? Modern science has...

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The Five Phases of Flattening a Classroom

a simulpost with TechLearningThe Five Phases of Flattening a ClassroomRight now, Julie and I are both doing several things to help duplicate ourselves and help others understand what it takes to conduct a Flat Classroom project or Horizon Project.I've outlined what I believe are the five phases I take my classes through to prepare them for independent, self-directed levels of collaboration. I suspect these ruminations will evolve.Phase...

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Research Proving that Wikis are More Efficient than Email

via Stephen Downes and Miguel GuhlinThose of us using wikis find the latest slide to be added to Don Tapscott's Anthony Williams' arsenal of no surprise. Anthony says:"The model is courtesy of Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I presented this slide during a talk I gave at Nokia today and someone pointed out...

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Overheard today: "We don't live in tents!"

One of my extremely excited and talented assistant project managers for Horizon Project has set up an appointment to instant message the project manager in Doha, Qatar today. They had an appointment for 8 am and 12:30 noon! (Uhm -- we got out at noon for spring break!).As they made their intros and said hello, first she exclaimed to the...

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Is TeacherTube a Bad Idea?

I'm experimenting with posting directly from diigo -- I've annotated and highlighted from the original post from my friend Shmuly Tennenhaus.My friend Smuly is a youtube expert -- he's been on many nightly news programs and in newspapers (see the New York Times article on him.) I'm still turning over the thoughts from his blog post that he shared.. he has made a few good points that I had to go back to teacherTube to see. We have...

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YOU SPEAK: Looking for Current Research on Interactive, Study Focused, Customized Learning Methods of Teaching -- Please Share!

I received this e-mail today. I've edited out who it is from and the author's name who is requesting it for privacy reasons...I have several research topics that I've uncovered for this request but NEED to know what you have. (Don't have time to post the links.) Please share your insights, projects, and RESEARCH! Thanks!" Vicki -Do you have evaluation studies showing the impact of Flat Classroom project or Horizon on academic...

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Yahoo! supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation

Community organization to assure neutrality and longevity of specification for building social applications across the webSUNNYVALE/LOS ANGELES/MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (March 25, 2008) – Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google today announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open,...

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Google Announces Internet Availability of Proxy Materials for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Mountain View, Calif. – March 25, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Internet availability of proxy materials for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule. Google’s proxy materials can be found on its investor relations website at investor.google.com.Pursuant to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule,...

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Going from "It" to "Out": Dealing with network withdrawal

Sunday after going to church and eating lunch with my family, I got to relax by the pond, watch the millows meander and the dragonflies hum as I fished for catfish. I enjoyed being "out" of it.We went home and watched the The Pride of the Yankees, about baseball great Lou Gehrig (which is worth seeing just to see the Real Babe Ruth play...

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This Week at Westwood: Horizon Evolves, Digiteen Begins

Sometimes I just like to share the things that are happening in my classroom. They may seem old hat to me (and my students) but understanding HOW these things work is tough for some people just learning what is happening.1) Computer Science (10th)This is the class that is participating in the Horizon Project. We're continuing the four week "handshake" period before the start of the project on April 15th.Why a handshake?We've...

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