You can only tell the shape of things by looking at the edges - Ken Price

 Empowering Students with Web 2.0 tools. 

Presentation - asla-2008-august-final1

Bookmark file for use in session - aslabookmarks (zip file, as edublogs won’t upload an HTML file - will need to unzip prior to uploading). You can import this into your delicious site by logging into the deiicious site and going to Settings -> Import/Upload bookmarks

ASLA del.icio.us site.  http://delicious.com/ASLAlinks

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Session - Tues 1 July, DET Lampton Avenue

Presentation is here: presentation-for-distance-ed-june-2008

Pageflakes is a free web2.0 tool that “aggregates’ content from other places. It is sort of a personal dashboard for students and staff, which allows individuals to see the things they want to see via a web interface. Almost anything that has a “RSS” feed can be made to show in a PageFlakes box, as well as many many pre-defined flakes. It now has a “teacher” version which has nice educational “flakes”

Del.icio.us is a free web2.0-based tool to let you manage a collection of “Bookmark” or “Favourite” websites, in a way that generates social networks. It allows you to share them selectively, tag them with your own tags, identify people with similar interests, and of course they are available anywhere you can browse the web. As it is web2.0 it talks to other systems, with RSS feeds.

And here are the notes for the session at Rosny College. Pageflakes and del.icio.us in education (46KB, MS Word)

Presentation is attached - pretty large, nearly 5 MB,  so please be considerate of others when downloading!  TASITE web 2.0 presentation

Where to find free Maths courses online? Why here of course…

The presentation used in the sessions in Launceston 21-22 February is available here.

PowerPoint file from Online Teachers Workshop 21-22 Feb 2008

The MS PowerPoint file is quite large so please be nice to others and download it when your network is not in heavy use.

I’ve licensed most of my work under Creative Commons licensing as non-profit , with attribution, so you can use this anywhere you like as long as you don’t charge for it and you attribute its authorship.

Here are the resources for the session for Rosny College staff, Feb 2008. Feel free to share these under Creative Commons share-alike conditions.

Presentation for Rosny College Feb 2008 (PPT file, approx 4Mb … download when the network is relatively idle)

Grapes of Wrath Google Earth File (either save and open in Google Earth, or save and rename as .kmz instead of .txt)  (from Google Lit Trips)

Pulp Mill for Tasmania kmz file

Podomatic podcast - sample site

Content will be placed here as I create it

An article by D’Arcy Norman on the dismantling of CAREO, U Calgary’s digital repository.

CAREO was important, back in 2001-2004, as a prototype. As a sandbox for trying out some of these concepts. As a place to easily host metadata and content and try the repository model. From that perspective, I think it was a huge success. Without CAREO, I would likely still be saying that we need centralized institutional repositories to tightly manage resources.

But, because of CAREO, I now know that we don’t need repositories at the institutional level. Personal repositories are much more powerful, effective, and manageable. They’re called blogs, maybe you’ve heard of them? And small pieces, loosely joined. Want to manage photos online? Use Flickr. Videos? Use YouTube/GoogleVideo/etc… We don’t need a monolithic institutional repository.

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Sure, we were naive, but we meant well. And now, hopefully, people will learn from our successes, failures, and mistakes, and not be doomed to repeat them.

Google Earth kmz files

Here is a resource that may be useful for Google Earth, or at least as an example of how students could share geospatial ideas

Nuclear reactor KMZ file for Google Earth

There is a story here!  Until last week, KMZ files (the file format that is used by Google Earth) were not able to be uploaded to Edublogs, as they came up as a dangerous file type.  After a few queries, and a bit of investigation, the good people at Edublogs verified that the KMZ  is an OK file type , and they can now be uploaded. And the actual changes took less than 12 hours. Overnight in fact.

This is a quite incredible response for a service that is free to individual teachers. I can’t think of many “commercial” providers that can come close to that degree of responsiveness.  These people deserve congratulations.

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