Check out and download the lastest evolution of the classic Bloom’s Taxonomy at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom’s+Digital+Taxonomy

Presentation given at the K12online 2007 Conference

Keynote Link: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=149

Duration: 53 minute

Authors: Brian Lamb, Alan Levine, D’arcy Norman

Review: Nicely done! Just when I was beginning to think I had a good grasp of all the good current free tools online they gave me a list to check out. They also did an elegant job of describing some of the the classics like flickr, digg, and delicious. I especially liked how they used the verbs: embed, connect, socialize, share, collaborate, remix, liberate, filter, and disrupt to define and describe the web2.0 phenomenon. An excellent introduction for educators to the new read write web.

Download the video:
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/K12Online_MoreThanCoolTools_ipod.mp4
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/K12Online_MoreThanCoolTools_full.mov
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/K12Online_MoreThanCoolTools_full.mp3

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Tutorlinker has a nice google map mashup to search for tutors in your area.

Tutorz searches the web for tutors located in the U.S. across every subject. To begin searching, enter subject of study and your city and state.

Tutor Match acts as a broker and sends the student information to the tutor

An excellent presentation by Will Richardson, who most call one of the founding fathers of edublogging, recorded by Wesley Fryer, at the National Educational Computing Conference entitled, “From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classroom”

Will raises the questions:

How are our schools responding to the new informational and global landscape?

What does it mean to be in the interconnected, transparent, and collobartive world?

This podcast is a must for any professional teacher and concerned parent to understand the cutting edge of education. This episode goes up on my all time top 3 most influential educational podcasts!

To listen to the post click here

To read the show notes click here

DESCRIPTION:
They did it again with just a marker board. The guys at Common Craft break down and explain the definition of a wiki and how it works faster and more clearly than I have ever seen.

LENGTH:
4 minutes

VIDEO:

EDUCATIONAL RATING:

Pass it on so we can get wikis mainstreamed into education

OVERALL GRADE:
A+

AUTHOR & SOURCE:
by leelefever
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

RELATED POSTS:
Video Review: RSS in Plain English

OBJECTIVE

To introduce digital immigrants to the new web’s social media and get you quickly started with social bookmarking.

WHAT

Social bookmarking allows users to save, classify, share, discover, and vote on their favorite links publicly or privately on the web.

This new web2.0 service replace the old process of adding to your “favorites” by saving them onto one private computer. Not only do you now have access from any computer you also get more information saved and attached your link such as:

*title and address
*when you saved the link
*notes you can attach about website to the saved link
*how many other people also saved that site and what tags they used
*set privacy sharing settings-if you want to keep private or make public
*some services even offer social annotation tools such as highlighters and stickynotes that get attached to your save web pages.

Besides saving your links, social bookmarking has become a knowledge mangement tool for organizations and networks of people to organize and share their web information. The second utility these bookmarking services provide are they can be used as a powerful social research and annotation tool.

WHY

Ericka MenchenTrevino created a efficient visualization that provides “Three Ways to View Social Bookmarking Systems” that helps to illustrate how it all works.

Above: You have one web page with multiple users saving or “favoriting” the link under multiple tags. This first scenario demonstrates the social web2.0 principle of folksonomy. When a community is classifying and making meaning it gives a common concept or label for others to rally around and collaborate on (see Part 4: What is Folksonomy - Why & How to Tag). Another benifit is that instead of saving your link in one folder of a sub-folder you can save a link to multiple different tags which makes it much easier to find later.

Above: Here you have one tag (a popular name for a category used to label), and multiple users finding links related to that tag and sharing their filtered research to a public network. Each time some one saves a web page it also counts as a vote of popularity that creates a buzz around what members of a community find interesting. This allows the members to nominate and vote up the blogs, articles, news, video, links that they recommend and rather than having an editor at the top choosing what the consumers will be exposed to in a magazine. This principle in the web2.0 world has been named the long tail where the minority in a distribution graph can cause a “tipping point.” Social bookmarking also provides a good example of how the wisdom of the crowds principle works. When you have multiple users searching, filtering sharing, and tagging their web research a collective human intelligence builds and evolves. It is this social meaning making that will eventually push us to the web3.0 the Semantic web. This community of collaborated knowledge allows other members to tap the human research rather than mathematical algorithm computer google search. For example, for this blog I did most of my research by browsing under the “bookmarking” tag in the delicious social bookmarking community. I was able to sort through an already human filtered list of all the most popular, current, relevant, and interesting websites related to bookmarking. Furthermore most major social bookmarking services allow you to subscribe via RSS (see Part 2: What is RSS - How and Why to Subscribe) to particular tag and track in real time what the people in the live web are finding most interesting and relevant.

Above: Here you have one user with all their tags, called a tag cloud, storing and classifying all their favorite links. These tag clouds - a list of all your tags in alphabetical or most popular order - give you a reflection of your interest and a sense of how you think.

Not only do these tags provide an opportunity for self-learning but they also allow you to see tag clouds of other members in the community in which you can join their network and subscribe to their links so you can track what they are searching and saving on the web. Rashmi Sinha best illustrates this interaction with her diagram from her post A social analysis of tagging.

HOW

Choose a social bookmarking service. To right is a picture listing the names and the icons of some of the major players. Social Bookmarking Top Sites is a good blog post that lists, ranks, and describes.

For me I have been using delicious for over a year and I swear by it. A couple months ago, I added diigo which can sync with delicious and adds advanced social annotation features (highlighting and sticky notes). Recently I stumbled on edtags a social bookmarking started in Harvard specifically for the education community - very new and I am still evaluating it see Digg + Delicious + Educators = Edtag.

Once you choose and register for a social bookmarking service you will have to add a bookmarklet. This bookmarklet is normally dragged and dropped into your internet browser tool bar. This link acts as shortcut button that you click on when you have a webpage open that you want to save to your account.

Social bookmarking can be used as a knowledge management system for individual and powerful social remendation research and annotation tool that is searchable, shareable, and accessible from any computer.Now you can join in the sharing and discovery of the web’s best and lastet buzz. I promise your web browsing experience will never be the same.

EDUCATIONAL DISCUSSION

1) Imagine if the teachers, parents, and students began collaborating with their web research with social bookmarking services. Do you think mainstream education is ready?
2) If so, how can we promote and spread social bookmarking?
3) Which social bookmarking sites are you using and why?

EXTRA CREDIT HOMEWORK:

1) Video: For a great 8 min long tutorial on all the basics to get you started with delicious social bookmarking service watch- Getting Started with Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking
2) Blog: For additional information read- Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web
3) Wiki: Check out this wiki organized by an educator- Social Bookmarking Tools
4) Links: Now that you understand how social bookmarking works browse through this tagroll, a collection of websites with the same tag shared publicly, “bookmarking” tag in the delicious to see the lastest buzz on this topic in the social bookmarking community.
5) Comment: Participate in the discussion.

RELATED POSTS

A Teacher’s Tour Guide into the New Read/Write Web2.0 - 10 Part Series
- Part 1: Visual Definitions of Web2.0
- Part 2: What is RSS: How and Why to Subscribe
- Part 3: Setting Up Your New Home(page) in the New Web
- Part 4: What is Folksonomy - Why & How to Tag

IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Ericka Menchen Trevino, “Three Ways to View Social Bookmarking Systems”, http://blog.erickamenchen.net/2005/11/15/three-ways-to-view-social-
bookmarking-systems/, viewed on 5/21/07
2. Rakesh, “Getting out of hand,” http://godproposes.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet, viewed 5/21/07
3. Rashmi Sinha “A Social Analysis of Tagging,” http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/06_01/social%20tagging.html viewed 5/25/07

DESCRIPTION:
This site is a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us with voting features like digg for educators - K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Professors, Grad Students, and Librarians - sponsored by a Harvard grant and using the open-source project Scuttle,

WEBSITE:
http://edtags.org

TAGS & CATEGORIES:
bookmarking, tagging, folksonomy, social media, education, networking

SCREENSHOTS:

PROS:
*It’s a social bookmarking specifically for educators to network and colloborate
*Has all major del.icio.us features plus digg voting!
*You can import/export bookmarks from your favorites or del.icio.us
*Has RSS subscriptions, so others can subscribe to your links and research.
*Can upload documents and videos

CONS:
*Still very new, not a lot of users yet.

COST/SET UP:
*free, just need to sign up for an account
*web-based no downloads required
*Has a bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar for a button to add links to your account quickly and easily

EDUCATIONAL USEFULNESS:

“READ/WRITE SOCIAL WEB2.0″-NESS

OVERALL GRADE:
B+
Still to early

DESCRIPTION:
The best and fastest introduction to what RSS is and how it works, done with a marker board and a hand.

TAGS & CATEGORIES:
rss video

LENGTH:
3.5 minutes

VIDEO:

EDUCATIONAL RATING:

Understanding RSS is foundational to empowering digital immigrants into the new Read/Write Web2.0

OVERALL GRADE:
A+

AUTHOR & SOURCE:
by leelefever
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

“Web2.0″ pronounced “Web Two point Oh”: can be used as an adjective, noun, verb, adverb.

Stop right here, remember, I am not a techie, I will leave the written definition to the experts. So, I will save you some keystrokes, when you first type in the term “Web2.0″ in google the first two hits you get are: an inadequate, but necessary start, definition wikipedia definition of Web2.0″ and a very deep article by Tim O’Reily’s Arictle “What is Web2.0
The problem is when I try to pass these definitions on with other nontechies, like other teachers, administrators, and parents at my school, I have had an extremely difficult time trying to articulate the essences. So I have put together a collection of visual diagrams, webs, charts, tables, and time lines that may assist you in quickly absorbing some of the essence.

Here we go:

The first set is a collection of time lines that effectively show you an evolution of where we came from, to where we are, and were we are going.

Source: Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0 and Portable Profiles

Source: O’Reilly — What Is Web 2.0

Source: Nova Spivack and Radar Networks

Source: Jurgen Schiller Garcia

These next few give you a sense of how “it” works.

Source

Here are some webs that do a nice job mapping it out.

If I haven’t overwhelmed you enough already I leave you with this to chew on.

Here is my tentative itinerary to help you rediscover the web:

Intro: A Teacher’s Tour Guide into the New Read/Write Web2.0 - 11 Part Series

Part 1: Visual Definitions of Web2.0

Part 2: What is RSS: How and Why to Subscribe

Part 3: Setting Up your New Home(page) in the New Web

Part 4: What is Folksonomy - How & Why to Tag

Part 5: Social Bookmarking & News

Part 6: What, Why, and How to Blog

Part 7: Wikis

Part 8: Podcast

Part 9: Videos & Screencast

Part 10: Webware & Office2.0

Part 11: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

I have been a citizen in this Web2.0 for almost a year now. Prior to, embarrassingly, the extent to which I utilized the web was:

* yahoo.com for email

* amazon.com for online shopping

* travelocity.com driving directions and plane tickets

* google.com for basic random and lucky research for academic papers and lesson planning.

Last April I randomly fell into this hidden underworld and it has completely changed my life: socially, intellectually, professionally, financially, productively, and even my marriage. In every area, my life has dramatically improved. It has become my mission to share this new technology primarily in the field of education to the average to below average computer user.

See Also:
“Step by Step- Building a Web2.0 Classroom”: Excellent presentation from the K12 Online Confernce. It maps out a easy to understand 10 step plan that can be easily implemented by virtually any teacher.