Talking about homecoming for his house. T-shirts as sign of passion, embodied history. Hunter S. Johnson
Sports Death (like “carpe diem” w/skull (Thompson T-shirt that’s famous). Remixed it to celebrate Henry’s last year-14 years. Sign can be scary w/o knowledge but if you engage with them about it you can find out a lot underneath thiat [...]
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Michele Honeyford from UIndiana working w/Becky Rupert from Aurora Alerntative HS and Rafi from Global Kds working w/ guy form SOmerville
Why Wikipedia: embodies participatory culture (all must believe htey are
Rheingold: “Wikis allow for collaboartive comms that can share knowledge nad ideas w” low tech. barrier
Contested in classroom spaces so brings otgther ?s about content, authority, [...]
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Worked w/Dianne ? to integrate Zooey’s Room (http://www.zoeysroom.com/) into classroom (particularly Fail & Fail Often module from Learning Library) at Esperanza Academy-all girls middle school in Lawrence MA. Zooey’s Room is STEM & media class in school
ZR is online comm and offline after school program; girls learned better in group collab environment so ed site
Begun [...]
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Overview:
Assessment & testing as participation (treat as discourses)
Multiple levels of assessment & feedback (align through immediate, close & proximal activity)
Standards & skills as formalisms (must enlist b4 enlisting appropriately or correctly)
Close-level reflection guidelines
Rationale: Participatory assessment
Teaching to the test is as useful as the tests are meaningful (NCLB showed external tests aren’t meaningful for teachers); bigger [...]
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First session (hashtag #nml09)
Participatory culture
Low barriers for engagement
Strong support for sharing creations w/others
Members believe contributions matter (Classroom 2.0)
Care about others’ opinions of self and work
Project NML
Learning Library (launch today)
TSG Reading (strategy guides)
TSG Mapping (strategy guides)
Project Good Play
Share and engage with above (prof dev, case studies, and working w/amterials above)
NML
Judgment
Negotiation (entering into different spaces w/different norms)
appropriation [...]
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Multimedia Use in Academy panel with Jeff Ubois from intelligent TV, Dru Zuretti from CCC, Gary Handman from UC-Berkeley media center and Judith Thomas from UVA media center (missed this last presenter because I had an appointment)
Context: changing landscape (13 hrs of video uploaded to YouTube daily?). They did Intelligent TV/CCC 2008 survey and faculty [...]
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I spent a lot of Thursday and Friday catching up with folks and work so the first real session I attended was the tail end of Reeling in the Faculty: Baiting the Information Literacy Hook on Friday. Here are my live notes from the end of the panel and the Q&A:
Final suggestions:
Putting links to IL [...]
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Came late (but better than not at all). Ira Glass DJing, audio storytelling
Came in at part of him playing things about race and Obama election. Guy talking about friend who was racist
Iraq War vet who joined Muslim student association to deal with war feelings. First greeted as liberators then oppressors/evil. In war dealt with it [...]
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Basic explanation of Twitter
Microblogging; blogging in 140 characters
Post from multiple places: phone, browser, web, etc
TinyURL to shrink links and hash tags to tags
2K plus apps for Twitter
Users: median 31 yo mobile users (often urban dwellers)
Twitter in the library: Marketing (events, useful info, did you know, etc); news & reviews (retweeting stuff from other places NYT [...]
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Facebook personal pages vs. others
Blogs-more general advertising, has to be visited or RSS has to be pulle dinto Google Reader
Facebook fan page-still kind of general, institutional
Facebook personal connection-more personalized, rarely inactive, can visit as much as you want
Can set up group just for faculty friends (who would you go to coffee with or who would [...]
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