Duration:
8:01 minutes
Video:
Author:
Karl Fisch
Additional Resources:Did You Know? 2.0 - Additional Quotes and Questions
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Beating Blogger's Block: Blog Starters & Styles
Here is a link collection of some useful blog posts about blogging when you got the blogger's block:
The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging... And When to Use Each One Slideshow
Blogging Tips - 29 Topics and Sentence Starters for Your Next Blog Prompt List
The 5 Types of Blogs That Experts Write
Educators See Also:
Transparency and constructivism, etc. (Or five good reasons to blog the research process)
ResearchLogTemplate shows a great example how one could use the category features to work and organize your research into.
The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging... And When to Use Each One Slideshow
Blogging Tips - 29 Topics and Sentence Starters for Your Next Blog Prompt List
The 5 Types of Blogs That Experts Write
Educators See Also:
Transparency and constructivism, etc. (Or five good reasons to blog the research process)
ResearchLogTemplate shows a great example how one could use the category features to work and organize your research into.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Blog Rules & Contract
Update: I created our Class Blogger's Contract thanks to all of the help below
This year I will be starting my first elementary class blog. I want to make sure I am starting this up the safe and . I am currently doing some research on Blog Rules and Contracts for students.
Here is a list of some of my research:
*Blog Rules from a Mrs.Bizzel's 5th grade GT class
*A nice student/teacher Blog Contract from Mark's Edtechblog
* Colorado teacher Bud Hunt created a student's blogging guide
*Class Blogmeister, a blogging service, has a blogger’s pledge that you download here
*A Middle School Blog Contract example
This year I will be starting my first elementary class blog. I want to make sure I am starting this up the safe and . I am currently doing some research on Blog Rules and Contracts for students.
Here is a list of some of my research:
*Blog Rules from a Mrs.Bizzel's 5th grade GT class
*A nice student/teacher Blog Contract from Mark's Edtechblog
* Colorado teacher Bud Hunt created a student's blogging guide
*Class Blogmeister, a blogging service, has a blogger’s pledge that you download here
*A Middle School Blog Contract example
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Definition of a Blog
I decided to stop torturing myself with weeks of writers block to try to tackle the daunting task of coming up with my own synthesized definition of blogs. But then I remembered the "define: " keyword that you can plug into google search which lets google scrap the web of the best definitions. To save you a step click here to see the web's best definitions of a blog.
See Also:
*Wikipedia's def of a blog and their great list of blogging terms.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
What Why & How to Social Bookmark
What
This new web2.0 service replace the old process of adding to your "favorites" by saving them onto one private computer. Not only do you now have access from any computer you also get more information saved and attached your link such as:
*title and address
*when you saved the link
*notes you can attach about website to the saved link
*how many other people also saved that site and what tags they used
*set privacy sharing settings-if you want to keep private or make public
*some services even offer social annotation tools such as highlighters and stickynotes that get attached to your save web pages.
Besides saving your links, social bookmarking has become a knowledge mangement tool for organizations and networks of people to organize and share their web information. The second utility these bookmarking services provide are they can be used as a powerful social research and annotation tool.
Why
Ericka MenchenTrevino created a efficient visualization that provides "Three Ways to View Social Bookmarking Systems" that helps to illustrate how it all works.
Top: You have one web page with multiple users saving or "favoriting" the link under multiple tags. This first scenario demonstrates the social web2.0 principle of folksonomy. When a community is classifying and making meaning it gives a common concept or label for others to rally around and collaborate on (see Part 4: What is Folksonomy - Why & How to Tag). Another benifit is that instead of saving your link in one folder of a sub-folder you can save a link to multiple different tags which makes it much easier to find later.
Middle: Here you have one tag (a popular name for a category used to label), and multiple users finding links related to that tag and sharing their filtered research to a public network. Each time some one saves a web page it also counts as a vote of popularity that creates a buzz around what members of a community find interesting. This allows the members to nominate and vote up the blogs, articles, news, video, links that they recommend and rather than having an editor at the top choosing what the consumers will be exposed to in a magazine. This principle in the web2.0 world has been named the long tail where the minority in a distribution graph can cause a "tipping point." Social bookmarking also provides a good example of how the wisdom of the crowds principle works. When you have multiple users searching, filtering sharing, and tagging their web research a collective human intelligence builds and evolves. It is this social meaning making that will eventually push us to the web3.0 the Semantic web. This community of collaborated knowledge allows other members to tap the human research rather than mathematical algorithm computer google search. For example, for this blog I did most of my research by browsing under the "bookmarking" tag in the delicious social bookmarking community. I was able to sort through an already human filtered list of all the most popular, current, relevant, and interesting websites related to bookmarking. Furthermore most major social bookmarking services allow you to subscribe via RSS (see Part 2: What is RSS - How and Why to Subscribe) to particular tag and track in real time what the people in the live web are finding most interesting and relevant.
Bottom: Here you have one user with all their tags, called a tag cloud, storing and classifying all their favorite links. These tag clouds - a list of all your tags in alphabetical or most popular order - give you a reflection of your interest and a sense of how you think.
Not only do these tags provide an opportunity for self-learning but they also allow you to see tag clouds of other members in the community in which you can join their network and subscribe to their links so you can track what they are searching and saving on the web.
How
Choose a social bookmarking service. To right is a picture listing the names and the icons of some of the major players. Social Bookmarking Top Sites is a good blog post that lists, ranks, and describes.
For me I have been using delicious for over a year and I swear by it. A couple months ago, I added diigo which can sync with delicious and adds advanced social annotation features (highlighting and sticky notes).
Once you choose and register for a social bookmarking service you will have to add a bookmarklet. This bookmarklet is normally dragged and dropped into your internet browser tool bar. This link acts as shortcut button that you click on when you have a webpage open that you want to save to your account.
Social bookmarking can be used as a knowledge management system for individual and powerful social remendation research and annotation tool that is searchable, shareable, and accessible from any computer.Now you can join in the sharing and discovery of the web's best and lastet buzz. I promise your web browsing experience will never be the same.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
1) Video: For a great 8 min long tutorial on all the basics to get you started with delicious social bookmarking service watch- Getting Started with Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking
2) Blog: For additional information read- Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web
3) Wiki: Check out this wiki organized by an educator- Social Bookmarking Tools
4) Links: Now that you understand how social bookmarking works browse through this tagroll, a collection of websites with the same tag shared publicly, "bookmarking" tag in the delicious to see the lastest buzz on this topic in the social bookmarking community.
5) Comment: Participate in the discussion.
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Social bookmarking allows users to save, classify, share, discover, and vote on their favorite links publicly or privately on the web.
Social bookmarking allows users to save, classify, share, discover, and vote on their favorite links publicly or privately on the web.
This new web2.0 service replace the old process of adding to your "favorites" by saving them onto one private computer. Not only do you now have access from any computer you also get more information saved and attached your link such as:
*title and address
*when you saved the link
*notes you can attach about website to the saved link
*how many other people also saved that site and what tags they used
*set privacy sharing settings-if you want to keep private or make public
*some services even offer social annotation tools such as highlighters and stickynotes that get attached to your save web pages.
Besides saving your links, social bookmarking has become a knowledge mangement tool for organizations and networks of people to organize and share their web information. The second utility these bookmarking services provide are they can be used as a powerful social research and annotation tool.
Why
Ericka MenchenTrevino created a efficient visualization that provides "Three Ways to View Social Bookmarking Systems" that helps to illustrate how it all works.
Top: You have one web page with multiple users saving or "favoriting" the link under multiple tags. This first scenario demonstrates the social web2.0 principle of folksonomy. When a community is classifying and making meaning it gives a common concept or label for others to rally around and collaborate on (see Part 4: What is Folksonomy - Why & How to Tag). Another benifit is that instead of saving your link in one folder of a sub-folder you can save a link to multiple different tags which makes it much easier to find later.
Middle: Here you have one tag (a popular name for a category used to label), and multiple users finding links related to that tag and sharing their filtered research to a public network. Each time some one saves a web page it also counts as a vote of popularity that creates a buzz around what members of a community find interesting. This allows the members to nominate and vote up the blogs, articles, news, video, links that they recommend and rather than having an editor at the top choosing what the consumers will be exposed to in a magazine. This principle in the web2.0 world has been named the long tail where the minority in a distribution graph can cause a "tipping point." Social bookmarking also provides a good example of how the wisdom of the crowds principle works. When you have multiple users searching, filtering sharing, and tagging their web research a collective human intelligence builds and evolves. It is this social meaning making that will eventually push us to the web3.0 the Semantic web. This community of collaborated knowledge allows other members to tap the human research rather than mathematical algorithm computer google search. For example, for this blog I did most of my research by browsing under the "bookmarking" tag in the delicious social bookmarking community. I was able to sort through an already human filtered list of all the most popular, current, relevant, and interesting websites related to bookmarking. Furthermore most major social bookmarking services allow you to subscribe via RSS (see Part 2: What is RSS - How and Why to Subscribe) to particular tag and track in real time what the people in the live web are finding most interesting and relevant.
Bottom: Here you have one user with all their tags, called a tag cloud, storing and classifying all their favorite links. These tag clouds - a list of all your tags in alphabetical or most popular order - give you a reflection of your interest and a sense of how you think.
Not only do these tags provide an opportunity for self-learning but they also allow you to see tag clouds of other members in the community in which you can join their network and subscribe to their links so you can track what they are searching and saving on the web.
How
Choose a social bookmarking service. To right is a picture listing the names and the icons of some of the major players. Social Bookmarking Top Sites is a good blog post that lists, ranks, and describes.For me I have been using delicious for over a year and I swear by it. A couple months ago, I added diigo which can sync with delicious and adds advanced social annotation features (highlighting and sticky notes).
Once you choose and register for a social bookmarking service you will have to add a bookmarklet. This bookmarklet is normally dragged and dropped into your internet browser tool bar. This link acts as shortcut button that you click on when you have a webpage open that you want to save to your account.
Social bookmarking can be used as a knowledge management system for individual and powerful social remendation research and annotation tool that is searchable, shareable, and accessible from any computer.Now you can join in the sharing and discovery of the web's best and lastet buzz. I promise your web browsing experience will never be the same.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
1) Video: For a great 8 min long tutorial on all the basics to get you started with delicious social bookmarking service watch- Getting Started with Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking
2) Blog: For additional information read- Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web
3) Wiki: Check out this wiki organized by an educator- Social Bookmarking Tools
4) Links: Now that you understand how social bookmarking works browse through this tagroll, a collection of websites with the same tag shared publicly, "bookmarking" tag in the delicious to see the lastest buzz on this topic in the social bookmarking community.
5) Comment: Participate in the discussion.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Video: RSS in Plain English
DESCRIPTION:
The best and fastest introduction to what RSS is and how it works, done with a marker board and a hand.
TAGS & CATEGORIES:
rss video
LENGTH:
3.5 minutes
VIDEO:
Understanding RSS is foundational to empowering digital immigrants into the new Read/Write Web2.0
OVERALL GRADE:
A+
AUTHOR & SOURCE:
by leelefever
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
The best and fastest introduction to what RSS is and how it works, done with a marker board and a hand.
TAGS & CATEGORIES:
rss video
LENGTH:
3.5 minutes
VIDEO:
Understanding RSS is foundational to empowering digital immigrants into the new Read/Write Web2.0
OVERALL GRADE:
A+
AUTHOR & SOURCE:
by leelefever
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
Sunday, April 22, 2007
What Why & How to Tag
Tagging 101: How To Get Started
What
To understand what tagging is you need to understand what is Folksonomy - a core Web 2.0 principle. I believe failing to understand the power of this new phenomena, is one of the leading causes for new users in failing to adopt many of the new Web 2.0 services.
Why
Four reasons why you need to start tagging:
1. Tagging is easier than categorizing. Rashmi Sinha's post "A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging provides two brilliant diagrams that represent the frustration behind the paralysis by analysis effect when we tried to find the "right" or "best" category to file. Then she illustrates the tagging process which shows you how it cuts off the last step making it easier and more enjoyable to label.
2. Tagging makes it easier to remember and find. Since you can apply multiple tags, you can sort, search, and file under multiple contexts.
3. Folksonomy allows you to tap into the wisdom of the crowds and jump on the long tail of the collective intelligence and emerging trends. Exploring and browsing through tag clouds allows you to discover trends and interests that you may otherwise never have been able to think of to type in google or stumble on.
4. Folksonomy is social and leads to sharing. You have the ability to find like-minded individuals and tap their brains, tastes, interests, and favorite sites.
How
To understand what tagging is you need to understand what is Folksonomy - a core Web 2.0 principle. I believe failing to understand the power of this new phenomena, is one of the leading causes for new users in failing to adopt many of the new Web 2.0 services.
Why
Four reasons why you need to start tagging:
1. Tagging is easier than categorizing. Rashmi Sinha's post "A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging provides two brilliant diagrams that represent the frustration behind the paralysis by analysis effect when we tried to find the "right" or "best" category to file. Then she illustrates the tagging process which shows you how it cuts off the last step making it easier and more enjoyable to label.
2. Tagging makes it easier to remember and find. Since you can apply multiple tags, you can sort, search, and file under multiple contexts.
3. Folksonomy allows you to tap into the wisdom of the crowds and jump on the long tail of the collective intelligence and emerging trends. Exploring and browsing through tag clouds allows you to discover trends and interests that you may otherwise never have been able to think of to type in google or stumble on.
4. Folksonomy is social and leads to sharing. You have the ability to find like-minded individuals and tap their brains, tastes, interests, and favorite sites.
How
Although their is no set standard and controlled vocabulary here are some general guidelines to get you tag clouds started on the right foot.
1) Use keywords.
2) Use multiple tags.
3) If you are going to use multiple words with in one tag use an underscore. Example "professional_development"
4) Be conscious of nouns and verbs when tagging. If I find links that are resources about how to blog, I will tag it them under "blogging." If I find some interesting blogs I tag them with "blogs."
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