Week 5 - March 28 - Sharing / Borrowing / Remixing: Copyright in the 21st Century

Copyright in the 21st Century

Please watch the following three videos so we can discuss them together and so that I can answer any questions you may have.

Introduction to Creative Commons (CC Video A Shared Culture)

CC video Get Creative

Wanna Work Together?

we will look at ways to find different Creative Commons Media and how to give proper attribution.

Tech Thursdays March 21 - Google Forms

Using Google Forms

Google forms can be used for a variety of purposes. They can be used for surveys, to collect documents (via links), for quizzes, to signup for events...

Google forms can be embedded into Google Sites. Here's an example.

How to create Google Forms.

Overview Video



You can use the Flubaroo script to auto-grade quizzes. Watch the video below to learn how.

Tech Thursdays - Social Bookmarking

Techniques and tools to easily capture, store, organize and share information you find online and offline.

Big Ideas: 

• In order to produce good ideas and to be creative, it’s important to capture information and organize it in a way that allows the collected information to collide and create new knowledge. 
• Being able to easily collect and organize information will help you and your students learn.

The idea in the first bullet point above is explained in the following video:
“Chance favors the connected mind.” by Steven Johnson

Please watch the video below before you come to the lab.

Connected ideas:
Distributed Cognition
Social Bookmarking (Explanation video; same as above)

Connecting of your own ideas as well as the connecting the ideas of others. Delicious example of someone I follow.

Tool: Diigo: Bookmarking, Annotation, Highlighting, Sharing and More

(Diigo Tools)

Diigolet, Various Diigo Plugins
Diigo on iOS , Web highlighter for iPad Safari
Diigo on Android  is called PowerNote
Sharing linkrolls

Tool: Delicious: (Social Bookmarking; delicious.com)

Tool: Evernote (Link)
Web Clipper

Platform: Kindle (kindle.amazon.com)
Highlighting, Annotating, Social Reading

Tool: bookmarks.google.com

Tool: Twitter  #hashtags What Are Hashtags?

Tech Thursdays - Week 2: March 7 - Using an Electronic Portfolio

Using An E-folio

Reasons you might want to use an electronic portfolio system:

• Allows for more feedback (from teachers, peers, parents...), increasing learning
• Summative assessments in a portfolio show student performance; they are not a proxy of student performance (grades)
• Provides students with a place for self-reflection
• Creates a place where people can see growth over time (possibly years)
• Allows for better conversations to happen around learning/performance, as opposed to the limiting conversations about grades
• Allows for easy sharing of various media (audio, video, text, images...), organized into pages, by need. Each portfolio page can be created and shared independently, tailored to meet specific needs. (For example a student might want to share their acting portfolio page in order to apply for a summer theater institute.)
• Helps students take ownership of their learning. They are in charge of building their portfolio pages; they are in control of their pages and they decide when and with whom to share these pages.

About the Mahara efolio system (the system we're using):

Students have one portfolio. This portfolio is made up of student-created pages. They can create as many pages as they need. These can be organized and searched with the use of tags. Pages can be shared with people in and out of the efolio system. Students are in full control of their portfolio which means they control the sharing of pages. A student does not necessarily share a whole portfolio, but instead, shares pages.

Pages can contain external content, like a YouTube video, Prezi or VoiceThread, for example. They can also contain content that is in the students’ Files section of the portfolio, such as an image or audio file.

You can log into the system at https://aisb.lunsvle.co.uk/ or from start.aisbudapest.org (last link above second video). Ask Bill if you need an account.

Help videos can be found on the MS Tech Site Home Page, in the Resources area (bottom, center) where it says E-folio Help Videos. (You need to be logged into the Google system to view these videos).