one thing leads to another

via a link found within this tweet http://twitter.com/NCLAdvocacy/status/20854826766172160; a useful reminder of what good readers do.

vimeo video school

recently received email:
Vimeo Video School

We launched a school! Vimeo Video School is a new section of Vimeo where anyone, from any skill level, can learn how to make better videos. For free.

We've crafted a series of fun, original videos to teach you about the basics of making better videos in an entertaining way. We've also written a variety of lessons that gather tutorial videos from across the site and help break down the details into bite-sized nuggets of wisdom. If that's not enough, we organized almost a thousand tutorial videos made by other Vimeo members covering almost every topic you can imagine.

Want to make a sweet time lapse video? Want to learn tips about editing in iMovie? Video School has lessons and tutorials about all sorts of cool stuff. Check it out frequently for new lessons and show your friends who might be interested. There's something for everyone.

doing good.social media

via NCL: 75+ Ways to Do Good With Social Media

overly simple? useful vehicles?
discuss

hmm: the one compelling application, One Day's Wages, is no longer available. boo

http://mashable.com/2010/07/12/non-profit-iphone-apps/


also: this comment seems to rub at the nub of the issue:
eric1000 5 months ago
So not impressed. These are prime examples of the shallowness of most smart phone ap's. Great to waste some time playing a game, no so great for real, meaningful engagement with the world.

and this

also, via twitter





all sorts of ways to consider using this data, integrating into teaching, professional development, discussions about data, about counting, census, voice, representation...

another useful thing about social media

this, this morning, via Mary Kim Arnold

something useful about social media

Facebook first came to me, or I to it, three or four years ago when a student group at Brown told me they were posting photos from an event on line. As their supervisor, it felt important to be able to see those photos, but In order to see them I had to join facebook. Fast forward, facebook (for me) has gone from sort of interesting time chewer, to occasional way to find people I want to 'see' or know about, to largely providing opportunities to read about and share information of an often (but not always) political nature.

Case in point: came acrocss this article this morning: How Do Successful School Systems Treat Teachers?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sabrina-stevens-shupe/successful-schools-treat-teachers_b_793559.htm; saw the article because of this group, Not Waiting for Superman, which also lives on facebook,

So there's that.

Interesting piece about PD, teacher education and 'success.'

stay in school

form, content
(click on the image to enlarge)










via http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/2145776470/stay-in-school-kids

online networking tools

my last post may have inadvertently served as a segue from consideration of multimodal tools to this week's theme of tools for online networking. Certainly twitter, facebook, tumblr, myspace, livejournal - all platforms that I use - have great potential for use by adult learners in different ways. While similar in many ways, each also serves a particular, sometimes only slightly different, sort of function.

For our purposes, twitter and facebook are the more obvious choices for use with people new to social networking - they're relatively easy to use (relatively), are fairly clear visually and, once one has poked around, fairly intuitive. (fairly).

Security issues need to be addressed, of course. But what about a scavenger hunt on facebook, for example, to get folks started? What if clues to the scavenger hunt were posted via twitter?

Am I actually suggesting this?

purpose, tool. purpose, tool.

just one more

way more on the social media side of the house than the education side, but taken from world-shaker's site:

http://www.carriecstern.com/post/1730498155/twitter-facebook-comic

irritatingly true

i love charts

and, a blog i actually do follow

http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/

who wouldn't love a site that can deliver this?

(I now learn, via here. attribution is almost everything)










well someone, probably.

inevitably

world-shaker

tumblr was down today.
it's back online now, but its absence made me think about the fragility of the internet, at least as I understand it.

14 months of my life are documented there, for myself, mostly, and for some of my invisible friends.

nothing I want to share here.
(aside from this random thought about the nature of invisible friends and social networks.

meanwhile, this site - maybe of interest. looking at educational resources outside the usual places, beyond the usual suspects.

World-Shaker, Exploring tech and social media in education

have a look

another blog

because I have a couple of blogs on blogger.com, and because I tend to follow a number of other people (some related to education work, many not), I find myself trying to catch up, saving/bookmarking sites - with and without success.

Sometimes I do get back to something I've bookmarked, other times not.

This one site is something that might be of use or interest to others in the NE online group and in the TEAL cohort.

http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2010/12/complicated-vocabulary-make-cartoons.html

integrating technology

Larry Cuban writes about clickers and other technology; integration of technologies, tools for the purposes, and student-centered learning.

Colleagues at the RI AE PDC have used clickers - in large group meetings, in STAR trainings - in ways that make sense, in ways that enable them to get information from participants so that participants can see a range of answers/responses at once.

Common sense with batteries, some may argue, but likely a bit more intentional than that.

linked in groups

another source of information via online communication - groups organized through linked in.

these conversations are particularly germane to our current conversations

maths

via http://sniffyjenkins.tumblr.com/post/2050685679/doodling-in-math-class-snakes-graphs-stop

another instance of something compelling posted on tumblr, where art, life and work more than occasionally intersect.

untried, untrue

via our colleague Sean McKenna
http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_distance22_11-22-10_F1L1039_v11.3f6b850.html

what have

you done online to further your work today?

- email

- reading an article I downloaded (heard about through email, lost the attachment, went to the author's website and found it there)

- working through two online courses

- reading student drafts

- added a subscriber to my bulletin list

media, technology

Viriginia Heffernan on technology in the NYTimes: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/h/virginia_heffernan/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=%22virginia%20heffernan%22&st=cse

so, twitter

still a little ambivalent about twitter, generally, although I have a twitter account, but only have it because a friend's boss asked me to follow her, maybe, when - over a year ago?

one thing led to another, led to following, making lists, sorting stuff.

initially, I found myself following people who would make me laugh out loud.
then, some other media things, especially the NY Times headlines feed.

then some education people, but they'd take up ALL the screen with their many many posts, so now I sort them into different lists (ed, tech, media, telling and so on) and then sometimes I check them, but often I don't

and now I'm trying to see how or why or if this is a useful medium for learning.

more stuff to read, think about, do. fewer letters. Squeezing responses to twitter length - or replies on other platforms - does force me to think about how I write, forces me to small down, be concise, use only some of my words, sometimes for the better, sometimes unimportantly.

waiting to see.
what's next?

working world

minimum wage.

here

web world 2.0

lovely to be in a room full of practitioners.
16 people, 15 of us women.

sitting with Michele at the back of the room.
grateful for our community.

wondering how we help ourselves, work with adult learners and others in the broader community to use technology to gain access to information and resources we want and to utilize resources to help us with the technology we need.

mid July

new thoughts, comments, responses, ideas via "comments" here for the coming week (July 19-25)

week of June 28th

hello all
Here's the space for posting information, questions, comments, work reports to one another. Please use the comment space to contribute.
thank you

moving on

as it stands with this format, i appear to be the only one who can post 'new' messages - but all of us can respond using the comments feature.

so, for the moment, I'm opening a 'new' window here for us to comment on. I suspect that IF we like this blog thing, we'll need to find a different server - or somehow get a new identity for the blog so that anyone can go in and post new comments.

the big question, I think is whether or not this will be a useful interface for us..

getting started

Here's a first post. Hoping that we'll be able to use this to share work - we may/may not still keep running tallies in grid form so that Jess and Jill can disaggregate the numbers, but let's see how this goes.

Trying to get some work done around the feedback from the NIFL/LINCS meeting last week and also wanting to ask BB if there might be a way that she could sit in on one of my reading sessions with Donald. I'm not making much progress and pretty much lack discipline with him in terms of working on any writing. Mostly our sessions are him reading aloud from kids' books that we choose together.