Posted reflections on More Than Cool Tools

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Maria Rivera
2007-12-02 00:54:50 View
Maria Rivera The takeaways for me is the knowledge about the abundance of new and cool tools now easily available to teachers and students. The definitions of the tools were very helpful as well.
 2007-12-01 23:35:28 View
Mike Skramstad Cool Tools is a podcast about many of the Web 2.0 opportunities available on the Internet. It explores many of the new innovations available for educators. The podcast highlights the "embed tag", RSS feeds, APIs, social networking, Google Documents, and other new ways of applying technology in our classrooms. The best parts of this podcast are some better understanding about the new online resources like Delicious, Twitter, and Flicker. I never truly understood what they point of these websites, and incorporating them in some meaningful way into instruction still remains a question. I will have to explore these resources more and perhaps discover a relevant application. I'm pretty good at using resources in new ways--despite their intended purposes.
 2007-11-28 15:11:59 View
Jose Fuentes The most important point point I was able to pick up during this presentation deals with been able to connet to other websites and bring pieces of informatin you need and display it in your own webpage. In other words, embeding pieces of information. I think it is a great tool for the simple fact that it saves money and time.
 2007-11-27 12:20:09 View
Jose Rodriguez Wow, there were so many tools introduced in this presentation. The biggest takeaway is being aware that there many tools out in the edupodosphere I can find to use in my classroom or as part of my professional development. It is about doing a mashup of the tools that work for you today. This can evolve over time and it's ok. I got some very good times on how to use some of the social networking tools I have already been using.
2007-11-21 20:18:48 View
Janetta Garton By Janetta Garton Summary: Brian Lamb, Alan Levine, and D’Arcy Norman use verbs to describe Web 2.0. • Embedding: new criteria we look for in online tools, want to be able to publish creations on our own blogs, wikis, or websites, not force our readers to visit another site to view our content. • Socialize: share with your network, share your content with others, connect with others with similar interests, use tags • Collaborate: work on one document at same time, as opposed to having multiple copies of the same document to synchronize. • Share & Remix: Learning Objects are resources; Open Content is on the web, with an open license to allow remixing, sharing, and mashing, with URL; Tools for finding open content include: Google advanced search with license option set; Flickr advanced search; OER Educational Resources; Data Literacy combines content from multiple sources (api/mashups). RSS can be used as a mashup tool. For example, a Pageflake with several feeds on a topic. Craig’s list of available housing paired with Google Maps by www.housingmaps.com which is not affiliated with either source is a mashup. We can put together professional web content without programmining skills. • Filter: individually easily publish content on line effectively, able to find resources for any field; so much to make sense of and categorize o Editorial gatekeeper: directory system, gatekeeper controls flow of news, articles must be approved before appearing (Slashdot) o Network concentrator: somebody acts as a bridge between several communities (Stephen Downes: philosophy, education, economics) o Social rating systems: Example is Digg; submit booksmarks to system and others rate it, more popular the rating more prominent on Digg. • Liberate: freedom to do what you need and want; not restricted by a company’s software; free resources online; portability of content; export and import features for moving data to another application; individual in control; freedom of cost, software is adaptable, (moodle wordpress) tools come and go • Disrupt o Bad: garbage online, need to make sense of what is there, deal w/ spam, what can we trust, o Good: it is worthwhile, everyone’s voice is valued, grass roots solutions effect real change, constant work in progress in beta; revise, review, refine, constantly living in a construction zone
2007-10-22 10:18:43 View
CIndy Lane I know realize that I have just chipped the big iceberg...that there are soo many tools to use effectively in the classroom!
 2007-10-20 08:23:57 View
Wesley Fryer
2007-10-19 18:20:03 View