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My friend Bruce Dixon pointed out to me a few weeks ago that if you do a search for “lesson plans” in Google you get almost 9 million hits, which, when you think about it, is a pretty amazing number. Not saying that they are all great plans, mind you, but when you think about the scope and variety of classroom related content that we can mine these days as opposed to just a few years ago.
Yet this concept of sharing content online still seems problematic for a lot of educators. As I travel around talking to teachers, very few of them argue when I suggest that this is still an isolated profession, and I get the strong sense that there is very little articulation around plans, practice or classroom experiences using online tools much less any local digital databases of documents or what have you. When I ask teachers to talk even in general terms about the experiences their students have had previous to arriving in their classes, most sit quietly and scrunch their shoulders. I know, I know…there is a time factor involved in doing this, or least a perception of one. But it just seems amazing to me that at this point there is no realy shift towards publishing more of what we do, more of what our kids do, not only to expand our own knowledge base but to model for our students that potentials of sharing.
All of this was brought to mind, once again, in an by Issac Mao titled “Sharism: A Mind Revolution.” While I think the ideas may wax a bit too poetic at times, the thesis is powerful: in this world, the less we share, the less power we have. It’s an interesting discussion of the challenges to intellectual property and copyright and to the still ingrained perspective that to own and keep private our own best thinking is in some way protective and sustaining of our cultures.
Non-sharing culture misleads us with its absolute separation of Private and Public space. It makes creative action a binary choice between public and private, open and closed. This creates a gap in the spectrum of knowledge. Although this gap has the potential to become a valuable creative space, concerns about privacy make this gap hard to fill. We shouldn’t be surprised that, to be safe, most people keep their sharing private and stay “closed.” They may fear the Internet creates a potential for abuse that they can’t fight alone. However, the paradox is: The less you share, the less power you have.
Mao discusses a lot of the benefits to blogging and sharing, the rewards we can potentially reap, and the positive consequences for the world. And he touches on the implications for education in terms of at least giving our students a leg up in “communication, collaboration and mutual understanding.” Not to mention the idea of helping our students to create a digital portfolio that can not only serve to help their teachers get to know them and their passions more effectively but that can connect them to other teachers and mentors who share those passions. And that is power, not only in the knowledge that we gain but in the learning relationships we foster.
(Photo “Sharing” by Kymberly Janisch)
Jolene Anzalone has been asked to give a 20 minute overview on blogging to 100 Principals and School Technology Strategists. She sent me a tweet to ask if I had any tips or advice.
Since many of us face similar situations I thought it would be better if we all provided our advice. Better still we could use this post to demonstrates how blogs connect us to a global audience where we can engage in conversations that lead to more ideas and greater innovation than each of us working individually.
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Moodle forums have RSS feeds--too bad the Resources don't--but I want to be able to offer subscribers ONE feed to rule them all. How to blend all the feeds into one? And, since I have multiple forums per course, one could easily be overwhelmed trying to subscribe to each.
Lots of tools available, as this blog post will attest...10 Tools to Combine, Mix, Blend Multiple RSS feeds.
Here are the feeds I'm blending and what it looks like:
I suppose my only concern is that when I have a new feed to add, i'd have to copy-n-paste all these in again. I'll have to try FeedTwister, which seems to offer the account option.
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Web whacking a site is rife with copyright violations, etc. However, some folks find it useful...for example, you want to show off a web site you've made to grandparents who lack Internet access (and don't want it! ). In the past, I've recommended tools like SiteSnagger for Windows (which, BTW, Kathy Schrock recommended to me many years ago when I worked at an education service center) and SiteSucker for Mac.
A new approach I hadn't heard of includes this one:
On linux I use wget, and I just googled and found that there are Windows binaries for it. It's a command line app but very easy to use. To mirror a site, you'd just type
wget -mr http://site.com
The -m is for mirror and -r for recursive, meaning it'll follow links on the site and download everything. If you google for "wget windows" you'll be able to find the binaries.
Anyone have fresh suggestions? Some other ones that came up include:
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I was finally doing a bit of reading via my Google Reader, when I came across RefSeek, written up by Jane Hart on her very handy blog.
Ref Seek is a website for students and researchers that accesses articles from web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. The idea behind the site is to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. I did a couple of searches on topics for Australian audiences (Ned Kelly and Kevin Rudd) and it didn’t come up with really brilliant results, but it did source a couple of more specialised sites that were useful. Below is a screenshot of what you see when you click on directory at the top right hand side of the screen.
Click on the links to the available sources of information and you will get an idea of the types of resources they are searching. Below is a screenshot of some of the encylopedias used in the searches conducted.
RefSeek is an interesting alternative for our students and makes me think about what the future may hold. I’m wondering how long subscription databases will continue as resources that schools pay for. Will they eventually become free resources and rely on advertising to generate income? At my school we subscribe to databases like eLibrary, World Book and Newsbank. We’ve made decisions in the last year to cut some of our subscriptions because we didn’t feel usage warranted the outlay of money required to sustain them. As we see the net evolve and semantic search engines like Mahalo generate pages of rich relevant results, we may see subscription database services feel the pinch. Already Brittanica offers bloggers access to widgets that can be embedded allowing your readers full access to articles on topics you write about. I have a feeling that we will see scholarly articles become more accessible as knowledge becomes more widely available.
Maybe I’m wrong. I’d be interested in hearing what others think.
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Just wondering if this will work. Today, my students begin their Heroic Journey Project, using Google Maps, Picasa and other platforms. Here is the handout that I gave them last week that will guide them on their project (they should be done with a rough draft of their journey for today).
The Heroic Journey Project for Students
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