Hi!
I can't seem to get my google earth mashup to link onto the class Wiki page. Could anybody explain to me how to do this?
Thanks
Monday, October 15, 2007
Images, Copyright, and Mashup
This week I learned a lot of useful things. One of which was a copyright site called creative commons. It gives you the opportunity to place copyrights on your internet material such as blogs, or pictures that you upload. I think this is really good because then you can let people know what you want to be reproduced and what shouldn't be.
Images, using flickr, was very fun. This is something that I think I will use for my personal use as well as for school use. I love pictures, and having a place to store them all online will be great.
Finally using Google maps and Google earth was fun. I love the sites especially Google earth. I was able to recreate my whole cruise in the matter of minutes. I was also able to load it onto Google Earth and look at it from a different perspective. While I was looking at this I was thinking about all the great Social Studies lessons and learning tools I could come up with from this one easy site.
The best thing about all of this technology is that it is free to use which means that we will be more able to use it in the classroom. I think that the children will be able to use it as well, but the biggest challenge, in my opinion will have to do with censoring. I was just looking up random things in the search on Flickr and when I typed in "cheesecake" a naked woman came up. This worried me, because that is not appropriate for a student in school to end up looking at. A challenge in helping them look at things more critically will be to get them to see the educational value of the image and not just play around with the technology. They also may not understand that they can't just go anywhere and take pictures from any site. They will have to be careful about respecting copyrighted materials.
Images, using flickr, was very fun. This is something that I think I will use for my personal use as well as for school use. I love pictures, and having a place to store them all online will be great.
Finally using Google maps and Google earth was fun. I love the sites especially Google earth. I was able to recreate my whole cruise in the matter of minutes. I was also able to load it onto Google Earth and look at it from a different perspective. While I was looking at this I was thinking about all the great Social Studies lessons and learning tools I could come up with from this one easy site.
The best thing about all of this technology is that it is free to use which means that we will be more able to use it in the classroom. I think that the children will be able to use it as well, but the biggest challenge, in my opinion will have to do with censoring. I was just looking up random things in the search on Flickr and when I typed in "cheesecake" a naked woman came up. This worried me, because that is not appropriate for a student in school to end up looking at. A challenge in helping them look at things more critically will be to get them to see the educational value of the image and not just play around with the technology. They also may not understand that they can't just go anywhere and take pictures from any site. They will have to be careful about respecting copyrighted materials.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Social Bookmarking and Calandars
Both social bookmarking and calendars are useful pieces of technology. For my personal and professional use I would use social bookmarking so I could have all of my favorite sites, or sites that are useful to me in one place to be able to access anywhere. The thing I like about social bookmarking is that no matter whose computer I am on I can access that list, unlike with bookmarking/favorites on my personal computer. I could also use it in my professional life by finding sites for my students to use in one place and allowing them to use them as a reference. Calendar is also a great tool for both my personal and professional life. In a personal aspect it can keep me more organized, which is something I tend to not be all the time. In a professional aspect I can put the homework assignments and announcements all on a calendar and make it public to view for my students and their parents. I can also print these out and place them around the classroom so everybody knows whats going on. Field trips, assignment due dates, students birthdays, test dates are all things I would put on these calendars.
Students will find these tools very useful. They can access my social bookmarks in order to do assignments or they can form their own to show where they got their information for research from, sort of like a bibliography. They will also be able to share information to one another this way. Calendars will allow them to always have access of assignments and announcements. If a student is absent they will not have to worry about what they are missing because it would be right on the calendar for that day. Students themselves can make their own calendars as well. They are very easy to do and they will be able to put their own important schedules and reminders in a calendar. This will help them become more organized and aware of the things they need to get done. It might also be a fun activity to perform as a class if computers were available to the students.
Parents can use social bookmarking to see what types of sites are available to them from their child's teacher. The teacher can put up sites that will appeal directly to parents. Parents can also see what type of work is going on at school by looking at what type of sites are bookmarked on the teachers social bookmark account. Calendars will be very useful to parents. They will be able to always have access to due dates and events at school. The age old question from parents is, "What did you do at school today?", and usually the most common response is "Nothing". We all know this is not true, we all went through school and their was never a day we did nothing. This is a way to keep the parents involved even if the student is not making as much of an effort to.
Students will find these tools very useful. They can access my social bookmarks in order to do assignments or they can form their own to show where they got their information for research from, sort of like a bibliography. They will also be able to share information to one another this way. Calendars will allow them to always have access of assignments and announcements. If a student is absent they will not have to worry about what they are missing because it would be right on the calendar for that day. Students themselves can make their own calendars as well. They are very easy to do and they will be able to put their own important schedules and reminders in a calendar. This will help them become more organized and aware of the things they need to get done. It might also be a fun activity to perform as a class if computers were available to the students.
Parents can use social bookmarking to see what types of sites are available to them from their child's teacher. The teacher can put up sites that will appeal directly to parents. Parents can also see what type of work is going on at school by looking at what type of sites are bookmarked on the teachers social bookmark account. Calendars will be very useful to parents. They will be able to always have access to due dates and events at school. The age old question from parents is, "What did you do at school today?", and usually the most common response is "Nothing". We all know this is not true, we all went through school and their was never a day we did nothing. This is a way to keep the parents involved even if the student is not making as much of an effort to.
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