Thing 17 - One new thing
A former student came back to ask me (after school) to help him with his taxes. Forgetting for a moment about "reliable resources" and hopping onto Google to find the government forms I entered what I thought would be a website with government docs.
Much to my surprise and to the student sitting next to me, came up a very pornographic site and buried in my memory I recalled some mention of such a site masquerading in some innocent wording such as gov docs.
My shock at having it open up and quickly closing it and explaining to the student that you should be careful to use reliable web sites with both of us crimsoning a little, it was definitely "one new thing."
I can't remember the web site due to the confusion surrounding it but you're welcome to explore it on your own....maybe not at school even though it obviously wasn't blocked there!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
These are a few of my favorite things (maybe not)
Thing 3 revisited. Not being entirely sure how it happened, I subscribed to two different RSS Feeds and the one I found was actually not Aggrivating; it looked interesting.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Teaching with Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia of over two million articles that is open to anyone to edit. It does well in Google search results and is one of the most heavily used sites on the Internet. Students are increasingly using Wikipedia to conduct research. The fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia has raised concerns from many academics and some of them have banned the use of Wikipedia in their courses. Despite this, recent research reports in Nature and the Journal of American History have found the accuracy of Wikipedia comparable to the Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta.
I was looking for "information literacy" as a topic and found Information Literacy in the Land of Confusion....it seemed match made in heaven for me. Actually the above article snippet was taken from that and I liked it. A lot of our Humboldt students use Wikipedia.
Here's the site from which the italicized part is taken: http://www.information-literacy.net/
Friday, February 15, 2008
Teaching with Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia of over two million articles that is open to anyone to edit. It does well in Google search results and is one of the most heavily used sites on the Internet. Students are increasingly using Wikipedia to conduct research. The fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia has raised concerns from many academics and some of them have banned the use of Wikipedia in their courses. Despite this, recent research reports in Nature and the Journal of American History have found the accuracy of Wikipedia comparable to the Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta.
I was looking for "information literacy" as a topic and found Information Literacy in the Land of Confusion....it seemed match made in heaven for me. Actually the above article snippet was taken from that and I liked it. A lot of our Humboldt students use Wikipedia.
Here's the site from which the italicized part is taken: http://www.information-literacy.net/
These are a few of my favorite things
Thing 3 - RSS & Newsreaders
While we did this in class, it seemed to go too quickly for me to really "get it." It seemed to make sense at the time - a little bit; but waiting too long to practice it doesn't help. For this reason I think of the RSS Feed Aggrigator as more like a RSS Feed Aggrivator. With a little help from a couple of friends, I have used the RSS Aggrivator to set up two feeds to the Mili Blogs: one in Google and one in Bloglines; the more recent one is Bloglines and I used it because I couldn't find the other one.
I read some blogs and was surprised to find there was actually someone with less blogs than I had. That made me happy.
While we did this in class, it seemed to go too quickly for me to really "get it." It seemed to make sense at the time - a little bit; but waiting too long to practice it doesn't help. For this reason I think of the RSS Feed Aggrigator as more like a RSS Feed Aggrivator. With a little help from a couple of friends, I have used the RSS Aggrivator to set up two feeds to the Mili Blogs: one in Google and one in Bloglines; the more recent one is Bloglines and I used it because I couldn't find the other one.
I read some blogs and was surprised to find there was actually someone with less blogs than I had. That made me happy.
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