October 2007 Blog Posts (12)

My wife and I produced a video for the Interwrite Learning contest and lo and behold we are in the finals! This is a $15,000 contest to get her some badly needed technology for her classroom. Problem is we are in the public voting stage of the competition and up against much larger districts with a lot of voting power. If you have liked my videos I ask that you go register and vote for her video. I admit that I am biased in this case, but I know how much she needs this equipment and her…

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Dear All,

Follw the link of online news papers of the world.It contains allmost all the newspapers of every part of the world

Regards,

Naveed

Link: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com

The new job has really usurped all the time I was spending blogging and reading on the web. I'm slowly starting to get back into the swing of things, though.



Just a head's up for anyone who is interested. Yahoo is looking for beta-testers for some super-secret new tool they're working on. I was a beta-test for the new Search Assist tool they use; it was fun and didn't take much time. Anyway, they want more librarians, so if you're intersted, here's the link.…



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These sites are web-tools that you can build with. If we can tame the 800 pound gorilla of time and apply our vision and creativity, there are hundreds of opportunities to connect curriculum with the dynamic world on the highly interactive Read/Write web. Picking up the tools offered by Web 2.0…

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So many of our professional publications and courses talk about collaborating with classroom teachers. From a listserv I am on I recently received a message asking how to get teachers to collaborate. I could have responded:

Last year I attended a workshop on collaboration. The presenter talked about her experiences with collaborating with teachers, but didn't say how she got the teachers to collaborate with her. During a discussion session in small groups she came over to my group and sat… Continue

I will be attending this conference which has already begun with a preconference session with David Warlick. I signed up for audio podcasts which I thought would help me decide which video sessions to attend. I've listened to David Warlick who demonstrates the lack of boundaries to communication that now exist, yet also the need to create new…

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I had the opportunity to participate in a Webcast sponsored by Focus on the Family a couple of nights ago. The theme was "Family Protection" and they featured the author of "Plugged in and Tuned Out', Vicki Courtney.

This is one of many resources available to educators and parents on Internet safety and usage issues. One of the concerns I have as an educator is that some parents react by wanting to disconnect the Internet! This was not the advice given in the session by the author and…

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ADVANTAGES OF TAGGING AND FOLKSONOMY

Tagging takes away the decision-making process of choosing the right category and risk the possibility of ending in a poorly defined sub-category. Tagging allows you to include associated concepts without wondering whether you have categorized the item in the correct folder or not.

Applying structured taxonomies is frustrating because some items do not fit comfortably into any category. This…

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Six and a half years ago I arrived in my current media center. The collection was old and short on accreditation numbers -- I remember 1974 as an estimate of average, but it surprised me that the age was that young! It is now up to 1984 after some weeding and using every penny I could on print purchases. Next Tuesday afternoon the media specialists from our county will meet here and I am supposed to do a program on weeding. To end the presentation we will weed the 900s. I am going to "remind"… Continue

I'm taking the FL Teacher Certification Exam for Ed Media Specialist in 10 days! As the lucky 13th of October approaches, I'm freaking big time! Help! Has anyone in the state taken the test recently and can share some words of encouragement?? Is there anyone near Orlando who's looking at that date and is available to study with me??

Just read a good article on tech literacy -- the chart at the end that describes a "digital native" - our students - is a good one.

Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation The digital native is constantly evolving. So how can educators keep up?

How do we educate these "digital natives"? I still think that good keyboarding skills are an essential basic, as well as applications such…

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