Archives for October, 2006
This may or may not be a problem in the future, but for now I am getting great tools for my students and teachers with great support, for basically nothing.... I can work around this a bit by using Google hosted GMail, but still it would be nice if they created an education version that allowed a teacher to create and edit accounts.
It also can take advantage of Apple's Bonjour/Zero Configuration networking, so that a MoinX wiki set up on a teacher's computer can be set up to be automatically seen by students using the Safari or Camino browers (both support Bonjour).... MoinX gives you a full blown and unmodified MoinMoin wiki without forcing you to run a full blown web server.
Stewart Mader and several other co-writers have published a book, Using Wiki in Education , detailing 10 case studies written by teachers describing how they are utilizing wikis in their course work and classrooms. The introduction and first chapter are available for free download, with access to the entire book, including a PDF copy, available for a fee.
John points out some educational uses including dumping your list of search links into Google Co-op and making the list of vetted web sites into a custom search tool using Google as the front end. For example a teacher who has researched and found appropriate sites for her students to visit could create a Google Co-op search tool that returned search results from those specific sites only.
It includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and to export that as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways. Using its unique ability to sense when you are viewing a book, article, or other resource on the web, Zotero will—on many major research sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for you in the correct fields.
The Google Spreadsheet interface is pretty spartan, and since it is saved to my Google account, I can not only share it with the individual teachers, I can also share the sheets with our reading support teachers. I plan to build some community behind the spreadsheets using WordPress so that we can discuss the results we are seeing and make and note plans for individual students based on the results we are seeing.
This morning I went to Google Spreadsheets and see that Google has changed the interface a bit combining the spreadsheet function and the Writely word processing function into something called Google Docs.
Log on, Learn to Play (Without Reading a Note):As informal online learning democratizes the musical experience, it also challenges the norms of musical education and raises questions about creativity itself.Ths Sunday Times has a report on the changing face of music instruction and how people interested in learning an to play music are turning to online and electronic sources of instruction.
His stories of the game and of the Negro Leagues introduced many to the story of the Negro Leagues and to that period in our history. It is sad that the special Baseball Hall of Fame Veteran's committee that recently considered additional inductees to the Hall overlooked his contributions to the game both on the field and off.
Code Search crawls and indexes publicly hosted archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip) and CVS and Subversion repositories, making them searchable in one place.... One example included WordPress config files that were left in open directories complete with logins and passwords exposed.
Tom Hoffman points to the new interface for Google Reader, Google's answer for Bloglines.... I normally use NetNewsWire as an RSS feed reader but also have my OPML file in Bloglines and also Google Reader.
>Google Earth is one of those tools that has countless applications in education. Below is another good example.Declan Butler, an editor for Nature Magazine, has come across some GIS data related to world poverty that has been published by Columbia University.
Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing: An art teacher was suspended after one of her fifth-grade students saw nude art in the Dallas Museum of Art. Sometimes you read something in the paper and you just shake your head. If there is to be blame for a field trip to an art museum, (as crazy as that sounds...)
