7 Fun With Flickr Creating, Publishing, and Using Images Online

Flickr.com, which has become the Web-based digital

photography portal of choice for many educators.

Flickr is free as long as you don't publish more than 1 00 MB of images and more than two 500 MB videos (about 90 seconds each) a month.

You need to register with Flickr in order to publish photos or

take part in discussions.

How can teachers use Flickr in the classroom?

*Teachers could create one login for all of them to share or have them create their own accounts. 

*Adding images to your Flickr folder is easy; just click on the upload link, find tbe image on your computer that you want to publish, and click "Upload." If you like, you can also upload images using an e-mail function that you set up in the "Your

Account" section.

*You can restrict access to what you publish by selecting from three different options:

1.Friends

2.Family

3.Public.

*Flickr allows for comments and connections to be made around photos, you can tum off discussion on any or all of the photos that you submit.

*Students can create their own personalized collections of photos that they themselves
have taken or found on the Web, complete with annotations and discussion with others.
* Flickr  is useful to connect students and teachers during their summer vacations, posting pictures of their travels.
* It is great resource to use to teach all sorts of other skills and literacies.

Did you know?

Flickr allows you to annotate certain parts of a picture and

also provides a way for people to discuss the picture in detail.

5 RSS The New Killer App for Educators

What is the meaning of RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. In RSS you have the news and ideas of the day come to your aggregator. For example: Reader will actually help you find RSS feeds at your favorite sites if they are available. For instance, just click on "Add Subscription" and type in "NASA". When you click "Add," you'll

see all sorts of  feeds that the space agency provides.

How can you start using this in your school and in your classroom?

Well, there are a number of different ways that RSS feeds can add to your knowledge base, help you communicate, and make your teaching better:

*RSS Feeds With Student Weblogs
Instead of checking out all 25 (or 30, or more) student Weblogs every day,You could just collect their work in your aggregator using their RSS feeds.
With some Weblog packages, you can even subscribe to feeds that show new comments on the various sites.

*RSS Feeds Without Student Weblogs
If your students don't have Weblogs, you may want to have them set up their own Google Reader account.
It can be an excellent tool for them becuse they can have more information about news and it could be an beginning to investigate.

*RSS Search Feeds
It could be a very important tool for students to search or feed more information about any topic.

*RSS Feeds for News Searches
Google News and Yahoo News
*Google. Just go to News.Google.com and click the "Advanced Search" link for search new page and at the same time you look for them to agregate what you prefer.
*Yahoo News Just go to tinyurl.comlnlp, put in your search terms, and copy and paste the address into your Google Reader to look for new pages and to agregate them.

*RSS Feeds for News Group Searches
If you are thinking in agrgate any group ,you can also search Internet news groups and get an RSS feed of the results. you can use Groups.Google.com, do a search, and in the results, click on the link of the group where the posting came from.

Chapter 4: Wikis Easy Collaboration for All

Did you know .....

         What is the meaning of Wikis?

         Where does Wikis come from Wikis?

 

Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995, who was looking to design an easy authoring

tool that might spur people to publish. And the key word here is "easy,"

because, plainly put, a wiki is a Web site where anyone can edit anything anytime

they want.

Did you know ...?

  Wikipedia is one of the most important sites for educators to

understand. It represents the potential of collaboration on the Web.

Wikipedia is the poster child for the collaborative construction
of knowledge and truth that the new, interactive Web facilitates. It is, to
me at least, one of the main reasons   the transformative potential
of all of these technologies.

Why we need to teach Wikipedia to our students?

Threre is much to learn in
the process of using Wikipedia that can help our students become better learners-narnely, collaboration and negotiation skills. 
Like blogs, wikis are beginning to make inroads in just about every area of life. Corporations like Disney, McDonalds, Sony, and BMW have started using wikis to manage documents and information. The city of Rochester, New York, is using a wiki to let people share

resources, experiences, and favorite diversions (Rocwiki.org).
So, there are a fundamental reason that as professors, we need to teach Wikipedia and others wiki such as Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikispecies, and Wikiquotes. If in their context is very commun to use wikis Why they cannot do the same? It is in their life we as a profesor, we have the responsabilty to teach them how to use that important tool into the class and outside of the class.

Are you ready to begin thinking about how a wiki might
work in your classroom?

*Students might use it to create their own class Wikipedia.
*They could add graphics and links,annotations and reflections.
*They could also post PowerPoint presentations, video and audio files.
*Introduce them to the concept of a wiki.
*Show them how it works, have them pick an entry to edit, review their edits with them, have them share the link when their work is posted, and then have them track their edits to see how others might edit them.

EXAMPLES OF WIKIS IN K-1 2 EDUCATION

Louise Maine's wiki work at her school in Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania. She and her freshman biology students are tracking their work from class, sharing links, posting results to experiments, and basically building a text for their course (tinyurl.comlnr9 l yr). More importantly, her students are learning the literacies of collaboratively constructing content as
they work with her to add value to the site. While only her students can edit it, the wiki is open for anyone in the world to view.


Jason Welker at the Zurich International School uses a WetPaint wiki for his AP Economics course. His students use the wiki to create a year-long study guide for the AP exam.
there is PlanetMath.com (tinyurl.com/90rxf), "a virtual community
that aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible."
This is a dynamic community of math educators that is collaboratively creating a mathematics encyclopedia (il la Wikipedia), and anyone can participate.

Jason Welker uses wikis to teach math in a dynamic way. There are a lot of people that hate math, then, that was the principal reason for what Jason Welker and others teachers thought in how those students  could change that idea and they start to see math in a friendly way. 

"Operation Katrina 2009" site(tinyurl.comlc62ja2) is at once a diary, photo album, and video record that allows parents and community members (and other readers from around the world) to share in the experience. It's a great use of a wiki site to chronicle and archive all of the good work those students are doing.

The site "Operation Katrina 2009   is an original way to relate a real event for the purpose you want to achieve the teacher which is students write about those difficult moments. 
          

WIKI TOOLS FOR SCHOOL

Creating your wiki is as easy as filling in the form on the page linked
above, a process that takes maybe 45 seconds if you're a fast typist. (A
minute if not.) Enter a username, a password, and a working e-mail address, click the "yes" button to make a wiki, give your wiki a name (no spaces allowed, by the way), select the type of wiki you want (most educators pick "protected" to start), click the box to certify that you're using it for educational purposes, and you're up and running. All you need to do is click the "Edit This Page" icon when your wiki site appears and you can start creating the content on your site.

Did you know....?

Wikispaces has provided over 1 80,000 free wikis to educators.

Chapter 3: Weblogs Get Started!

If we want our students to learn from blogs, we have to experience that learning firsthand or, as Ganley says, "get into their shoes."

*The first step is to take some time to just read some good Weblogs.
*In fact, posting on other people's blogs before you start
your own is a great way to get the feel of publishing your thoughts. Just wait
until that first person responds to something you've written; that's when
you'll truly start to understand the power of the ReadlWrite Web.
*Be a public blogger.
*Put your name on your work.

These types of posts should form the foundation
of your blog work. That's not to say keeping a blog is all work and no
play.
BLOGGING WITH STUDENTS
First, get students reading blogs. Prepare a list of Web logs with appropriate
content and look at some of those sites with your students.

Next, you may want to try letting students respond to the posts on your
class blog. The first time I used Web logs with one of my classes.
Having small groups of students actually start creating posts to the same
Weblog is a great way to introduce them to blogging (in the "connective writing"
sense) and to help them understand the process.
Finally, you may want to consider giving each student his or her own
blog.
BLOG SAFETY
To make publishing to the Web a part of our Acceptable Use Policy that parents had to sign
To communicate to parents what safety precautions you have in place to protect student privacy.
safety also means having in place a way to consistently monitor the activity on
whatever blogs your students are using.
As you read what students write, try to respond by commenting back when appropriate.

BLOG SOFTWARE
You will want to make sure you have adequate tech support on hand to
address any problems that may arise. Depending on what you choose, you or
your support people may need to learn how to maintain the installation, back
up the files on the server, and stay current on the latest updates.

BLOGGING STEP BY STEP

1.Use this link (www.Blogger.com). which is owned by Google to make your blog.
2.You can create as many blogs at Blogger as you want from your one account.
3.The address of your site will be "whatevernameyouchoose.blogspot.com,"
4.you can always create another site by using the"Create a Blog" button on the dashboard that comes up after you login.
5.Just hit the "New Post" button to, well, create a new post to the home·page.
6.to give your post a title, enter in your content.
7.and then choose to either"Save Now" as a draft for editing later or publish it directly to your blog.

Did you know...?
Blogger also makes it easy to add pictures to your post.

Chapter: 2 weblogs, Pedagogy and Practice

Chapter: 2 weblogs, Pedagogy and Practice

What is a weblog?

It is an easily created, easily up able web site that allows an authors to publish instantly to the internet from any internet connection.                                               

Two-thirds of all blogs go for made than two months without being updated.

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      Weblogs in schools 

There are four tools that teacher can use in the classroom:

Class portal

 *  To communicate information about the class.

*To achieve course materials.

* To publish the course curriculum, syllabus, class rules, homework, assignments, rubrics and handouts.    

                           E-portfolio  

*Students collect the work they might want to consider highlighting in

their portfolio.                        

                                                                              *Include links to videos podcasts, presentation and more.

                                                                                         

                 Collaborative space

-It is a space where students can collaborate with others online

                 School Web Site  

Weblogs can be used as a building block for a school web site.

* Clubs and activities.
*  All the sports teams.
* Teachers post weekly “classroom notes.

THE PEDAGOGY OF WEBLOGS

*Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning because they allow students think and create text, write comments etc.

*Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom blogs archive the learning that teachers and students do because teachers and students can express their ideas and also they can comunicate their ideas. Teachers and students are not strange between them and there is a mutual and constant communication.

*The Weblog is a democratic tool that supports different learning styles because  all students could understand easily what they have to do. Students learn easily because they are more interested in how function the new technologies.


*The use of Weblogs can enhance the development of expertise in a
particular subject.

*Blogs can teach students the new literacies they will need to function
in an ever-expanding information society.

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What is the URL of the blog?          

The Url of the blog is http://thejosevilson.com/

What is the title of the blog?       

 The tilte of teh blog is JLV The Jose Vilson: Educator, activist, writer,father   

Does the title of the blog provide information about its contentt?      

 Yes, the title  of the blog  provides information about its content becuse the title is the name         of a educator and I think he writes about education.  

What is the name of the person maintaining the blog?

 The name of the person who maintaining teh blog is Jose Luis Vilson.

What subjects does the blog author teach?

       

 José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood.

What is the main purpose/function/objective of the blog? 

       

In his collection of multifaceted essays, he provokes discussion on issues of race, gentrification, and the teaching profession from the eyes of a Black-Latino educator with a mix of research and first-hand experience.

he said :"This education book is not to be missed"

How does the blog make the learning experience more effective?

José Luis Vilson writes many essays in which everybody (not only his students) interchange  ideas and learning more about those topics.

I think when people read the learning  is more effective because they are analysing by themselves  and they don't repeat as parrots what others said.   

Is the blog written in a readable manner--free of grammar or spelling issues, etc? 

Yes, the blog is written in a readable manner.

What can learn from this blog to apply to the creation and maintenance of your own blog? 

Well, this blog has many interesting texts  but  I like how the blog organizaed the information, the menu and the cover.

I would like to create a menu most beautiful and a cover more showy. 

What did you learn by exploring the blogs of others and evaluating the quality of blogs? 

I learned that there are many diferent styles of blogs. I think, as a future teacher, blogs are fundamental to teach and interchange ideas. Blogs are excelent tools and if teachers know to use them, traditional class can be more dinamic. 

I can improve my blog because those blogs have excelent images, texts and a beautiful menus.

The teachers use the blogs to show their essays and I like it because we can do the same.

The Read/ Write Web

The Read/ Write is changing our relationship to technology and rewriting the age-old paradigms of how things work.

So, Education has been slow to adapt to these new tools and potentials. In order areas of our lives, however, we can see some of these trnasformations happening right now, right in front of our eyes.

Technology has become "an indispensable tool in the education of today's students ". The survey showed that 81 perent of students in Grades 7-12 have e-mail accounts, 75 percent have at least one instant Menssenger (IM) screen name, and that 97 percent believe strongly that technology use is important in education.

Toolbox

1.Weblogs or blogs are easily created, easily updateable Web sites taht allow an author (or authors) to publish instantly to teh internet from anny internet connection.

2. Wikis. A wiki is a collaborative Web space where anyone can add content and anyone can edit content that has alrady been published.

3.Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a technology that alows educators to subscribe to "feeds" of the content that is created on the internet, whether it's written in a Weblog or in a more traditional space such a a newspaper or magazine.

4.Aggregators.An aggregator collects and organizes the content generated via the RSS feed.

5.Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites like Diigo.com and Delicious.com allow tachers and students to build subject-specific resource lists that they can easily share when using RSS.

6.Online Photo Galleries.It means adding another dimension to what teachers and students can do with digital images in the classroom.



             

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