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Three things I learned in Summercore today
July 7, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Konnichiwa! Here we go…
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Monday, Day 1 :
Things are off to a chilly start here in the A/C at Horace Mann.
Despite the necessary frigidness, my brain has been cooperating and assisting me in gathering information.
In the morning, we got going with this very site: edublogs. This blog is being hosted for free, which is nice. Did you know that blog is a shortened version of ‘web log?’
My teachers are going to love this free tool…I know of several faculty off of the top of my head already who will feel competent and confident enough to integrate a blog into his or her curriculum. Excellent. And the students will love to communicate by writing and posting. Score.
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YouTube has some fantastic resources, how-to videos and explanations of just about everything. I now feel better equipped to allay some of my teacher’s fears and combat reticence to use YouTube.
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How cool is this? My del.icio.us isn’t as cool as say, Lynne’s yet but now that I know how to bundle, baby, it’s only a matter of time (and searching). Great idea from the chap in the back of the room to make individual department del.icio.us pages (and then have the individual faculty members use their name as an additional tag.)
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Monday Evening (ok, ok, Tuesday morning) Homework:
Read and summarize Chapter 14 of the Summercore handbook on our blog.
Chapter 14 recaps our day’s work on blogging, then goes on to chat about wikis (quick/what I know is) and RSS feeds and aggregates. Although I’ve been using Google Reader on my iGoogle, I didn’t know that it was called an aggregate. I need to investigate the aggregator Bloglines mentioned as well. It’s definitely useful to know how to search for RSS feeds that one might enjoy by using sites such as Techonorati.com. I would like to see a teacher have a class use aggregates to assist in researching a topic. I’ll get on that… I also need to investigate a few other web 2.0 sites such as Bubbleply and bubbleshare to facilitate a smoother way to incorporate YouTube videos into presentations. I’ve been doing that the hard way.
