Short, sweet, and the perfect ending!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Thing 22 - Staying current
Well, no need to mention it. I won't have a problem keeping up with the Web 2.0 and the emerging Web 3.0 (didn't you know? They are already talking about that one!) It's part of the job and the reason I love being a 21st Century media specialist. It changes from day to day and every day, week, month there is something new to learn. The Web 2.0 is, like I said before, way too cluttered. Hopefully finances will gradually force some streamlining and the best of the bunch will rise, like the Phoenix, so we can all become... what? Web 3.0 experts?
Remember Lotus 1-2-3? Maybe it was before your time... but other spreadsheets cluttered the market until one, Excel, became the killer app to the point that very few use Lotus nowadays. And so the Web 2.0 apps will fizzle and die, and the survivors will become mainstreamed.
http://www.go2web20.net/ was an interesting page design. Gave me some ideas for my own website - design, that is, although the links are also interesting.
I need to remember about Webjunction - been there but keep forgetting to go back. Definitely a future stop. http://www.webjunction.org/1
Well, so long. I don't imagine I will continue this blog but there is always hope.
Remember Lotus 1-2-3? Maybe it was before your time... but other spreadsheets cluttered the market until one, Excel, became the killer app to the point that very few use Lotus nowadays. And so the Web 2.0 apps will fizzle and die, and the survivors will become mainstreamed.
http://www.go2web20.net/ was an interesting page design. Gave me some ideas for my own website - design, that is, although the links are also interesting.
I need to remember about Webjunction - been there but keep forgetting to go back. Definitely a future stop. http://www.webjunction.org/1
Well, so long. I don't imagine I will continue this blog but there is always hope.
Thing 21 - Student 2.0 tools
I have been looking forward to this Thing because, as a media specialist in a high school, I feel this could be really helpful in my situation. So... I start.
The assignment calculator could be helpful to my seniors in the IB program. It really goes into too much detail for the student who is not college bound, and the thesis/argument focus of the research paper is not one I want to have to discuss or try to explain to a 9th grader. Still, for those students who are serious about research, this could be a great tool - help them write that dreaded extended essay.
The amount of reading necessary to use the calculator, though, is what makes this a self-study course in the research process, almost a class by itself. I am sure professors at universities spend time on the topic, but I am not sure how extensively this is covered in the IB program... a topic of research for me!
I have put a link to the Research Project Calculator in my media center webpage. I will introduce it to the group of students who will be coming in for career research - I like the email feature, but I wonder how many kids will feel they are being nagged first by their teachers and now by their computers!
http://rpc.elm4you.org/date.php
The teacher resources are fantastic! National Board candidates should be looking at these before writing their entries
http://rpc.elm4you.org/support_materials.php
Our district provides similar materials but I like the simplicity of these forms. The 5 step model (as opposed to the Big6) is generic enough that the forms could be used any place.
Well, this was just a bit short. Rewarding, but short. I have put the links to these in my blog just in case the NEFLIN page disappears and I am unable to find these again. Don't want to lose them!
The assignment calculator could be helpful to my seniors in the IB program. It really goes into too much detail for the student who is not college bound, and the thesis/argument focus of the research paper is not one I want to have to discuss or try to explain to a 9th grader. Still, for those students who are serious about research, this could be a great tool - help them write that dreaded extended essay.
The amount of reading necessary to use the calculator, though, is what makes this a self-study course in the research process, almost a class by itself. I am sure professors at universities spend time on the topic, but I am not sure how extensively this is covered in the IB program... a topic of research for me!
I have put a link to the Research Project Calculator in my media center webpage. I will introduce it to the group of students who will be coming in for career research - I like the email feature, but I wonder how many kids will feel they are being nagged first by their teachers and now by their computers!
http://rpc.elm4you.org/date.php
The teacher resources are fantastic! National Board candidates should be looking at these before writing their entries
http://rpc.elm4you.org/support_materials.php
Our district provides similar materials but I like the simplicity of these forms. The 5 step model (as opposed to the Big6) is generic enough that the forms could be used any place.
Well, this was just a bit short. Rewarding, but short. I have put the links to these in my blog just in case the NEFLIN page disappears and I am unable to find these again. Don't want to lose them!
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