Ch. 12 Notes

Chapter Twelve
Education and the Net

The internet and distance education can level the field for students because distance, personal appearance, physical disabilities, and special needs are not or are less important. This type of technology either eradicates the shortcomings or extends the users capabilities. Learning can take place anywhere, anytime, with anyone.

Evaluation of Internet Information
CRAPP Test: (Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose, Point of View)
Integrating net based tools into curriculum:

1. Email:

• Can communicate with teachers, add attachments.
• “Key-pals” (epals.com)
• Writing tool

2. WWW:

• Research/Info retrieval
• Communication tool w/ experts
• Blogs/Wikis. Social collaborative tools
• Games/Entertainment
• Augment Learning - Learn Alberta Username: LPS22 Password: 8441

3. Web 2.0 Tools:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• My Space
• Google Docs
• Smart phones
• Texting
• Wordle
• Mixbook
• Glogster
• Animoto
• Bubbl
• MindMeister
• Mixbook
• Flickr
• SlideShare
• StickyBits
• VoiceThread
• Webs.com
• WikiSpaces
• Zoho

Cyber Safety

How STRONG is your #&*! Password?!

How I'd Hack Your Weak Password offers tips on how to make your password stronger. If you are using any of these top 10 commonly used passwords, stop now!

1. Your partner, child, or pet's name, possibly followed by a 0 or 1 (because they're always making you use a number, aren't they?)
2. The last 4 digits of your social security number.
3. 123 or 1234 or 123456.
4. "password"
5. Your city, or college, football team name.
6. Date of birth – yours, your partner's or your child's.
7. "god"
8. "letmein"
9. "money"
10. "love"

see the 500 Worst Passwords

Location Location Location

Please Rob Me raises awareness on the perils of location-awareness apps like Twitter, Google Buzz, and Facebook. They say that...

The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you're definitely not... home.

Cyber Safety in the Classroom

These websites have a lot of good info for K-12 teachers, including games, research, and lesson plans on media violence, privacy, copyright, security, and more:

Media Awareness Network, a Canadian non-profit organization
Stay Safe Online from the National Cyber Security Alliance

Mindmeister

Very cool Web 2.0 mindmapping tool!

A Tour of MindMeister from MindMeister on Vimeo.

Ian Jukes - Understanding the Digital Generation DVD

Couldn't Resist

Chapter 12 - Podcast

Chapter 12 - Smartboard Notes

20+ Ways to Use Flip Cameras in the Classroom

Okay..., Now I'm Diggin' Animoto!!

Chapter 11 Part 2 - Podcast

Chapter 11 Part 2 - Smartboard Notes

Fact of Folly?

Fact or Folly is part of the Media Awareness Network. It offers K-12 teachers some great resources, games, and lesson plans on:

• evaluating online information
  
• copyright
  
• internet safety
  
• privacy
  

Check out the Media Awareness Network website!

Also, find more on evaluating info on the Library Education Guide.

(cartoon from bLaugh)

Ch. 11 Notes

Chapter Eleven - Learning with Internet Tools

The Internet
• A collection of computers and computer networks on a global level
• ARPAnet: exchange of ideas and information
• The internet is as important to human history as the Gutenberg Bible (printing press).
• The internet was originally intended to help with the free exchange of ideas and info in a military and scientific context.

Internet Pros:
o Access any information anywhere, anytime
o Access to entertainment
o Links people/communicate
o Primary source material
o Convenient/Speed
o Makes things easier when it works.
o Increases Efficiency
o Awareness – global
o Greener
o Can buy anything

Internet Cons:
o Have to be really specific in searches
o Very little privacy and secrecy
o Distracting/addicting
o Too much information can be overwhelming
o Information accuracy (CRAP test)
o Crime
o Viruses Spam, etc.
o Deception
o Lazy/Impersonal
• The internet is not the WWW. Internet is the roadway, WWW is the car.
• Web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc): allows you to get onto the highway. Software that decode *html/htm. (Hypertext Mark-up Language)
• Web Pages have a unique address eg. www.facebook.com
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator (an address).
• http: (comes before the URL) hypertext transfer protocol.
• Index page is the homepage (.htm)

CRAP Test

Chapter 11 Part 1 - Smartboard Notes

Chapter 11 Part 1 - Podcast

Chapter 10 - Podcast

Chapter 10 Notes

March 19/2010
Chapter 10 Notes
Multi-media Tools
Ex. Ipod, video camera, overhead projector (power point), television, printer, smart board
-Involves text, sound, graphics, animation, and video.
Multi-media involve students directly in learning and problem solving.
- Is constructivism
- Uses all multiple intelligences
- Appeals to the learning modalities (visual, auditory, kinestetic)
- Increases learning & retention of concepts
HYPERTEXT- is a non-linear way of representing text (events).
HYPERMEDIA
- Multi-media’s grand poppy.
- Ex. Apple, Hyperstudio, Hypercard
Refer pg. 309- Advantages of Multi-media
Computer is a tool
- Extends human capability >Multi-media

Forcier's Book - eTextbook

Check This out!!

Richard C. Forcier; Don E. Descy, The Computer as an Educational Tool: Productivity and Problem Solving, Fifth Edition, http://www.coursesmart.com/givecoursesmartatry?xmlid=9780132081238&__instructor=2013479

iPad? How about Roll Top Computing??

Chapter 8 Complete - Smartboard Notes

Chapter 8 Complete - Podcast

Jerry Dee Video

From class today!

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.html?id=1405154311

Awesome link for Web 2.0 Ideas

Thanks to Joanne for this link.

http://bit.ly/bl8NML

Chapter 7 - SmartBoard Notes

The first half are missing:( Sorry it was a technical glitch.

Chapter 7 - Podcast

Chapter 7 Notes

Chapter 7 - Word Processing

Word Processer is a tool (Extends human capabilities).
The computer is the medium.

Tools are split into genera – Word is a Productivity tool.

- Learn better
- Learn More
- Helps teachers with repetitive tasks
- People are more willing to edit, rewrite and redo

Features
- Columns
- Footer and headers
- Formatted
- Spelling and Grammar checker and Thesaurus
- Wraps lines
- Adds pages
- Helps create outlines
- Allows us to preview before printing
- Allows us to save in different formats

Functions
Editing function using key board

START LEARNING
CTRL –Z UNDO CTRL – Y REDO CTRL – X CUTS CTRL – C COPIES CTRL – V PASTE CTRL B – BOLD CTRL A –SELECT ALL CTRL S – SAVE CTRL D – FONT AND DUPLICATES ON AN IMAGE CTRL K – INSERTS HYPERLINK CTRL – U – UNDERLINES CTRL – I – ITALICS CTRL- O – OPENS CTRL P – PRINTS ALT - PRINT SCREEN – CAPTURES WHOLE SCREEN

Lettering
Different fonts for different effects
Size, Style, Type, Color,

Lettering Guidelines
- Use universal fonts
- Limit choices and amount of fonts
- 18 – 24 font size MINIMUM -> 36 ideal.
- Use appropriate spacing

A. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

Is better learning a click away?

An article on clickers in the classroom!!

Very interesting!

Is better learning a click away?

Chapter 4 Part 2 - Smartboard Notes

Chapter 4 Part 2 - Podcast

Chapter 4 Part 2 - Notes

Chapter 4 (Part 2)

Computer access and equity
Pen vs. computer/word processor

• Who has the advantage?
• Computer: Spell-check, neater, reference library, faster
• Whose work would be better?

• Pen: plagiarism, more creative, diagnosing learning disabilities
• Computer: faster, more likely to complete work
• Depends on skills that are to be taught

Who would be more willing to make changes?

• Computer: easy to change
• Gender equity

• Bias – boys are better than girls – is rooted in 17th century thinking
• Boys and girls have superior abilities at different stages of maturity and development
• Most of these biases are based on data collected when girls were restricted on the amount they were allowed to do

Intellectual Property

• “something conceived in the mind of an individual and made available to others”
• Copyright – protects financial interests

A.U.P. – Acceptable Use Policy (Network Agreements)

ICT Curriculum

• Communicating
• Foundations
• Productivity

Chapter 4 Part 1 - Notes

Chapter 4 March 5, 2010

Legal and Ethical Issues
Social Context for computers in the class:
· All types of people use computers!
· IPP Individual Program Plan
Are educ. Plans set out how a child with special needs will have their instruction and or curriculum modified.


Students with disabilities
· Computer(Technology) can help meet the needs of these students
· Technologies that help these kids are called adapted or assisted technologies
· All of these are hardware or software


Talented + Gifted
· Talented + Gifted kids are at risk
· Bored = beh. Prob
· No recognition
These kids will drop out
· Technology can enhance the learning of all groups/types of students if used correctly
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Chapter 4 Part 1 - Podcast

Chapter 4 - Smartboard Notes

Copyright or Copywrong?

Copyright Turning Point Edition

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