Thursday, December 8, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Social Networking and Bookmarking and Professional vs. Personal
Social networking allows people to come together around an idea or topic of interest. http://www.edutopia.org/how-use-social-networking-technology
One way that social networking can be used in the classroom for collaborative purposes is through a site, named, Delicious.com, where students can store, organize and share links with one another. For example, an annotated resource list you can use on a project.
Social bookmarking is collecting a set of resources that can be used to share with one another. Social bookmarking can be used in the classroom for collaborative purposes because this process allows like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities of users. It may also lead you to explore new directions.
After reading the article on the teacher that was forced to resign http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24670937/detail.html for her comments on the residents she serves, I went onto my facebook account and changed my setting to custom. I immediately added my principal to that list, as well as, a teacher from my school because I'm her daughter's teacher. As a professional, the teacher from Cohasset should of kept her comments to herself or at least not make them public for the residents she serves to read them and be offended by her remarks. Teachers need to keep their online presence Professional. Being professional means knowing how to separate your online personal life with your online professional life. Comments made in a public ,social networking site, like, facebook.com can cause you a lot of unnecessary repercussions.
Another teacher in Florida was suspended for comments he made opposing gay marriage.http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/8690-florida-teacher-suspended-for-facebook-comment-gay-marriage. Teachers need to uphold a reputation and appease to the majority. Therefore, your professional online presence may not be exactly what you really feel or represent but at least it can save your job. Your personal online presence should be just that, personal , and don't mix "business with personal."
Bohan, D.(2011). Florida teacher suspended for facebook comment opposing "gay" marriage, New American.
(2010). H.S. teacher loses job over facebook posting, The Boston Channel.com
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24670937/detail.html
Smith, F. (2007) How to use social networking technology for learning, Edutopia, http://www.edutopia.oeg/how-use-social-networking-technology
One way that social networking can be used in the classroom for collaborative purposes is through a site, named, Delicious.com, where students can store, organize and share links with one another. For example, an annotated resource list you can use on a project.
Social bookmarking is collecting a set of resources that can be used to share with one another. Social bookmarking can be used in the classroom for collaborative purposes because this process allows like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities of users. It may also lead you to explore new directions.
After reading the article on the teacher that was forced to resign http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24670937/detail.html for her comments on the residents she serves, I went onto my facebook account and changed my setting to custom. I immediately added my principal to that list, as well as, a teacher from my school because I'm her daughter's teacher. As a professional, the teacher from Cohasset should of kept her comments to herself or at least not make them public for the residents she serves to read them and be offended by her remarks. Teachers need to keep their online presence Professional. Being professional means knowing how to separate your online personal life with your online professional life. Comments made in a public ,social networking site, like, facebook.com can cause you a lot of unnecessary repercussions.
Another teacher in Florida was suspended for comments he made opposing gay marriage.http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/8690-florida-teacher-suspended-for-facebook-comment-gay-marriage. Teachers need to uphold a reputation and appease to the majority. Therefore, your professional online presence may not be exactly what you really feel or represent but at least it can save your job. Your personal online presence should be just that, personal , and don't mix "business with personal."
Bohan, D.(2011). Florida teacher suspended for facebook comment opposing "gay" marriage, New American.
(2010). H.S. teacher loses job over facebook posting, The Boston Channel.com
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24670937/detail.html
Smith, F. (2007) How to use social networking technology for learning, Edutopia, http://www.edutopia.oeg/how-use-social-networking-technology
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
New Literacies and Nets
What are New Literacies?
After my readings, I found that this is a hard question to define. According to Leu. O'Byrne, Zawilinski, McVerry, Everett-Cacopardo (2009) "New Literacies means many different things to many different people" (p.265). New Literacies are hard to define because they are always changing. http://ctell.uconn.edu/canter/canter_video.cfm?movie=la_new_technolgies.mov
To me, New Literacies refers to new forms of literacy through the use of technolgy. Some of the New Literacies include: instant messaging, blogging (what I'm doing right now), social networking like facebook.com, and emailing. What are NETS for Students and NETS for Teachers?
To me, NETS is intergrateing technology into the classroom in order to transform how our students learn and to give them the skills they'll need to learn effectively in the digital world.
I can develop nets in my classroom by having my students take their written stories and give them a voice through a site like ,www.voicethread.com which allows them to choose how to tell their stories, whether it be through video, voice, or text commenting.
I can help cultivate and develop New Literacies in my classroom by setting up a classroom blog. In this blog, students can respond to an assigned to read piece of literature via the internet and get feedback from their classmates, as well as, other 2nd grade classrooms in the building and myself.
After my readings, I found that this is a hard question to define. According to Leu. O'Byrne, Zawilinski, McVerry, Everett-Cacopardo (2009) "New Literacies means many different things to many different people" (p.265). New Literacies are hard to define because they are always changing. http://ctell.uconn.edu/canter/canter_video.cfm?movie=la_new_technolgies.mov
To me, New Literacies refers to new forms of literacy through the use of technolgy. Some of the New Literacies include: instant messaging, blogging (what I'm doing right now), social networking like facebook.com, and emailing. What are NETS for Students and NETS for Teachers?
To me, NETS is intergrateing technology into the classroom in order to transform how our students learn and to give them the skills they'll need to learn effectively in the digital world.
I can develop nets in my classroom by having my students take their written stories and give them a voice through a site like ,www.voicethread.com which allows them to choose how to tell their stories, whether it be through video, voice, or text commenting.
I can help cultivate and develop New Literacies in my classroom by setting up a classroom blog. In this blog, students can respond to an assigned to read piece of literature via the internet and get feedback from their classmates, as well as, other 2nd grade classrooms in the building and myself.
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