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Trailfire in the classroom
Madeline Brownstone will talk to us more about how she has begun using Trailfire in her classroom.
and one of the co-vounders of the company, Pat Ferrel will be joining us to consider what educators need and want from Trailfire. I have only begun to explore the possibilities of Trailfire. My 7th graders have begun trails on their personal interests and/or hobbies. In one class period they proved able to master the task of registering, creating a profile, and starting a trail. Here are links to some: Trailfire Needs and Wants - Google Docs & Spreadsheets
docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajb5fn8ht3sw_126gs2mbg
Hi Madeline, I am a co-founder of Trailfire. I noticed that you have been using Trailfire for teaching. As a matter of fact, we are currently focusing on the education market for Trailfire. Recently, we added some features that you might find useful. Would you mind answering a few questions for me regarding your use of Trailfire? It appears to us that you have already discovered 'wiki' trails. I see you added a mark to the TV 9-1 trail. Did you have any trouble figuring out how to add a mark to someone else's wiki trail? What would have made it more obvious?
Have you discovered the new 'Contacts' tab where you can now add your class as contacts? Also, its now easier to invite your class to join. Just click on the link above the 'contacts' list. When you students join in this way, they will automatically be listed as one of your contacts. Also, you can now form your class as a group. If you do this, you can share wiki trails publicly or privately with them. Any comments they leave in your marks will be reported on the new 'Activity' tab. By using contacts, groups, activity, share (wiki trails with group) you can more effectively collaborate.
Did you notice these new features? Have you tried them? What do you think of Trailfire as a collaborative learning tool? How do you think we should improve it? How do you think we can promote it to other teachers?
Thank you for taking the time to read through my rambling list of questions. >>I am working with my co-teacher to use Trailfire as a presentation tool, rather than as a classroom tool. In combination with our SmartBoard, we want to use Trailfire to share with our students web content that is related to the book we are reading in class at the moment. Nancy, High School English Web 2.0 Show - Episode 33 - TrailfirePosted by Josh Owens Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:56:29 GMT Chris and I sat down to talk with John O’Halloran from Trailfire. Listen to us chat about the fall of the USSR, the original intent of the web, and other interesting topics. Show Notes:
Trailfire Inc. is a Seattle-based software and services company. Trailfire was founded in February of 2005 by John O'Halloran and Patrick Ferrel. Management TeamJohn O'Halloran, CEOJohn is a software industry veteran. Prior to co-founding Trailfire, he was the CEO of Netpodium, a web conferencing company he co-founded and sold to InterVU, which was subsequently acquired by Akamai (AKAM). Prior to Netpodium, John was the CEO of MediaLink, a private networking company funded by Vulcan Capital. John was also part of the executive team that sold Aldus to Adobe in 1995. Pat Ferrel, CTOPat was a senior engineer at Aldus. He later founded Daily Planet around the notion of aggregating online content based on a user's personal interests. While it was still in the seed stage, he sold the company to Microsoft, where it formed part of the pre-launch MSN team. At Microsoft, Pat was the Director of the MSN Tools and Applications Group. He was responsible for MSN authoring tools, content server, search, and e-commerce. InvestorsWashington Research Foundation A private group of angel investors August 15, 2006The Social WebTrailfire launched a public beta today. It is something that we have been working on for almost a year. We let you mark pages with annotations that can be either plain text or HTML (including dropped in widgets like those from YouTube or Google). Then the next time you mark a page (using the same trail name) they are linked together in a trail. It is a fairly simple idea that has some similarity to social bookmarking and annotation products but with more far reaching implications towards creating a user generated meta-web, a Social Web.
So here is some of what I mean. Soon after our launch my wife bought a Treo and was trying to synch it with her schedule. She searched on Google where she found a product page describing a synch program. On the page was a mark (unusual so early after product launch). The rest of the trail The Social Web will grow to link up individuals’ ideas into something greater than the sum of its parts.
Posted by Pat Ferrel at 09:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | JSTOR: The English Journal: Vol. 73, No. 5 (Sep., 1984), pp. 20-23
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8274%28198409%2973%...  Middle School students blog about the VT shootings
VT shootingPersonal Learning SpaceIt seems that the only thing everyone is talking about is the shooting. I live in New York and many of us feel bad and are sad that this happened. We feel pain and sorry for them. But I don't mean to be rude but it didn't affect me at all. I have no friends or family that go there and I don't have anyone planning to go of course after this. But it makes me think what if I was there? What if my friend died? I know that I am surely not going to make fun of Asian people anymore. And not like I mean it in a bad way, they're always the quite smart ones that no one really pays attention to. But I think differently now, and they are pretty cool if you talk to them. I think that there shouldn't be any difference in people.Posted by a Student at BSGE, NYC | 0 comment(s)
Many people mourn beacuse of the shootings of students going to
Virginia Tech, consuming the lives of 30+ people and wounding many
more. The gunman was a 23 year old senior who many people describe as a
person with a really twisted mind and a loner, who wrote plays that had
a lot of violence. I think that he was probably bullied by society and
was a loner, and didn't have any friends. I feel bad for him but the
fact is what he did was wrong. In my opinion a grade in a school has at
least one loner, who nobody wants to talk to and no one wants to be
friends with. These people probably think deeply about people and how
he/she hates some people. I think that the guy who caused such a
tragedy had a whole bunch of hate just boiling up inside him because of
how much he was bullied that he just couldn't take it and felt the need
to kill those people.
Keywords: bullying, friends, gun, loner, massacre, shooting, virginia tech Posted by a Student at BSGE, NYC | 1 comment(s) omments
April /16/ 2007,
That's when a student decided to take the lives of 32 other students and
his own at Virginia Tech University. The V-tech community was scared
for life from this horrifc event. How could the parents and families of
all 32 students ever live again? It must be heart-breaking. Not only
did Virginia see how bad this was but also the nation, and all around
the world from Pakistan to Russia. This event was truly the worst
massacre in American history and i really hope that it could be the
last.
Posted by a Student at BSGE, NYC | 1 comment(s)
On april 16, 2007, a 23 year old asian student by the name of Cho Suing hui went on a shooting rampage in virginia tech college. His first and main target was his self-proclaimed girlfriend named Emily Jane Hilscher. His second victim was a man named Ryan Clark who heard the shots and went to see what happend. After the first shooting, Cho sent a packege to NBC witch contained a bunch of pictures of him with both murder weapons, A video of him alking about why he did it and a 180 letter manifesto. After that, he went to another part of the school and killed more than 30 people and wounded 29 before killing himself.
I think that this incident happend for no apperant reason. The killer was apperantly mentally disabled. He said that it could have been avoided. He blamed his misery on rich kids and snobs. He said that now we have spilled blood on our hands that we will never be able to wash off. This was a tragic event that people will remember for a very long time. I want to know how he wasnt caught in the 2-hour gap between the first and second shooting? I also want to know what his true motives where. His video didn't prove anything. Keywords: mentally disabled, motives, video, Virginia Tech, worst day Posted by a Student at ESCHS, NYC on April 20, 2007 Comments
I think that the Virginia Tech massacre was one of the worst massacres that I ever heard about. I think that just because the guy was all stressed out and depressed about college, he didn't have to go and kill other people, instead he could have gone to get some mental help or even go and ask the teachers to help him with his work. I also think that the teachers should of sent him to get some help before he killed all those people because the teachers alredy suspected that he had some issues before he killed the people. For example, in his English class he had to write a scprit and he wrote about a guy killing someone else. The teacher suspected him at first and was thinking wheater or not to make him get some help but then she decided to wait a while. I'm not saying that it was the teachers' fualt but they should of sent him to get some help before he killed all of those people. I also think that if the cops would of arrested him after killing the people in the dorm then he wouldn't have killed some many people. Instead of killing 32 other people, he only would of killed 2 people which is also bad but killed 32 people is even worse. I hope that the people in Virginia Tech will be able to recover from the massacre.Posted by a Student at BSGE, NYC | 1 comment(s) comment: I agree with what your saying but there were a lot more things wrong with the kid than depression and stress. He was scarred from bullying and also had mental disorders.
April /16/ 2007,
That's when a student decided to take the lives of 32 other students and
his own at Virginia Tech University. The V-tech community was scared
for life from this horrifc event. How could the parents and families of
all 32 students ever live again? It must be heart breaking. Not only
did Virginia see how bad this was but also the nation, and all around
the world from Pakistan to Russia. This event was truly the worst
massacre in American history and I really hope that it could be the
last.
Posted by a Student at BSGE, NYC | 0 comment(s) On April 16, 2007 there was a shooting at Virginia Tech University, in Virginia (obviously), and I don't
Keywords: death!, shooting Posted by a Student at ESCHS, NYC on April 23, 2007 | 0 comment(s) Well, the topic that I would like to focus on is the incident that happened in Virginia Tech. One thing that concerns me is that the head people in charge did not really respond really well to the first incident when two people were shot and died, on the other side of the campus. The students were given an email two hours later, which can have led into more deaths. These head people did not take in consideration of the other students. The buildings should have been evacuated and soon as possible.
The picture to the top left hand corner is the face of the Asian guy that killed 33 people including himself. He is a disgrace to his race! And that is a fact. He should have never did that because he didn't only hurt himself and his family, but other families as well of all the victims dead or a live. Cho had sent the NBC news a video of his confession on the murders that he had done. The murderer had something wrong with him and it wasn't taken care of, and the result led to something horrible, "Cho Seung-Hui, the 23-year-old shooter in the worse school massacre in American history, was thousands of miles from his homeland, South Korea, and apparently and infinitely further from humanity...." I also believe that he was far from humanity, because a decent human being would not do what he has done to those people. Cho Seung Hui aka Question Mark Kid » Netscape.com Image Source: "Always by Himself," by Tidewater Muse Keywords: Asian, Cho Seung-Hui, disgrace, murder, students
Posted by Nadine at ESCHS, NYC | Comments
PRAY FOR THE ViRGiNiA TECH. SHO0TiiNG.I think that instead of talking about what happened and what could have avoided it, you should pray for the family and hope that they get throught their terrible loss. Even thought what happened was sad and stuff, you can't change what happened in the past so I tihnk all we could do right about now is pray.
-Vidya <3 Keywords: guns, pray, school, shooting, virginia tech Spacecast - The Virgina Tech ShootingsSubmitted by Jeff on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 20:52. 30:48 minutes (14.1 MB)Javi, Cody, Angelica, Ted, Garrett, & Jeff discuss the tragic events of the past week at Virginia Tech and also discuss their likes and dislikes concerning PersonalLearningSpace.com
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I heard that the killer was bullied a lot in school, in Korea,
also. This reminds me of an episode of One Tree Hill, when someone
that was bullied a lot, and he hated everyone, and he just brought a
gun to school and threatened to shoot everyone. This proves that
bullying definitely has a horrible affect on the lives of people. If
someone is bullied, they are affected for the rest of their lives and
it can change how they are. If people had not bullied the killer, then
maybe this incident may have been avoided. Bullies have to realize
that their actions can do a lot of damage. It hurts the person
bullied, and it might cause them to hurt other people so they could
feel the same hurt feeling that they have experienced. If people were
just a bit nicer in this world, things like this massacre could be
avoided.
Posted by a Student at BSGE, NYC | 1 comment(s) Comments
Andrew's Podcast on the Virginia Tech ShootingSubmitted by manager on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 01:36. 16:41 minutes (19.09 MB)
Andrew is one of the hosts for many of the SpaceCast Webcasts from the Shenandoah Worldbridges Studios in the CompTech8 Classroom in Virginia. He was the first student to race in to podcast about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. We are only a couple hours from the University and many students were touched by the incident directly and indirectly. He was also part of the SpaceCast on April 20th with students from NewYork to discuss the blogs which came in by the dozens regarding the shooting incident. »
Teachers' Responses to VT shootings
Weblogs & Wikis & Feeds, Oh My!: How far away?
paulrallison.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-far-away.htm... Tuesday, April 17, 2007How far away?When I first heard of the shootings in Virginia, I thought about Lee. How far away was her school and her students? I looked at her students' markers on a CommunityWalk map that we had been working on together. As I was working, I zoomed from place to place, noticing -- as we often do -- how close we all are. Here's a Google Earth map that shows where the shootings took place, but it also has all the markers on it from our bloggers in the Personal Learning Space and Youth Voices. I don't know why distance matters to me on this one. I also feel close to the parents who sent their young people away to college, for this? And I'll be sending my sons away just like that in a few years. Posted by Paul Allison at 12:45 PM
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In the beginning Tim Berners-Lee invented two things—a format for electronic pages and a way to link them together. He invented HTML and URLs. From these two simple ideas the early web arose. In those days publishers held sway. You had to be one of them or you weren't invited to the party, you were a mere consumer, a reader to be herded around by the publishers. We consumers were not satisfied with a web controlled by organizations we demanded the right to have our say and so arose user controlled content hosting sites. Blogs led the way and were followed by image, audio,and movie hosting. We can create our own "spaces" to network with each other. But the web was still a bunch of silos with fixed boundaries.
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But it gets really interesting if you think about two trails from two people intersecting. This is where it gets Social. The collection of all trails becomes a way to discover what other people find interesting and it gives us new ways to connect to those people. The Social Web is about people making their own connections and having their say anywhere on the web. 
