Thursday, July 10, 2008
Boog-Phil Summarization
YooHoooooooooooo!!! I'm finally here. Done! Finished! I think if you cracked my head open right now there would be about a million little number 23's run out! I'll admit that I've sortof been obsessed with working on these lessons and I really did enjoy the experience. I've learned much more than anticipated and expected. However, ultimately, it did confirm for me how computer deficient I am. I was pretty clueless about all of the tools that are available to us on the Internet. Some of this stuff is over my head somewhat but most of it is so great and is quite useful to anyone that is familiar with the tools and understands how to use them. I've been Flickr'd, Google'd, RSS'd, Zoho'd, Doc'd, MindMap'd, Wiki'd, Tada'd, Del.icio.us'd, YouTube'd, Animoto'd, Podcast'd, and CC'd. I have learned so many new things that I honestly believe that I should receive 3 College credit hours for this class. I know I spent allot more than 24 hours reading, researching, and doing application assignments for the information distributed to us in this program. 23 Things should definitely be worth more than 24 PGH's (35-40 perhaps). It certainly wasn't boring and well worth my time, energy, and effort. I'm the kind of guy that needs hands-on experience with tools like this, so the more I use something the better I will get at it. There's tremendous beneficial information within 23 Things, now it's just a matter of putting it to good use!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Thing #23 - Creative Commons
I really enjoyed the creativity of the Disney Video clip "A Fair(y) Use Tale". It looks like that probably took a long, long time to edit all of those scenes into a piece of work as a teaching tool about Creative Commons. Speaking of which, Creative Commons gives us the freedom and right to use copyrighted work as long as we don't take credit away from an original author or creator of a product. We are allowed to use said work under 3 conditions:
1. Attribute - give credit to the original copyright author or creator
2. Noncommercial use - we can't sell or profit from the work
3. Share alike - we may alter, transform, add to , copy, and distribute as long as it is marked with a (cc) mark.
I think this is a wonderful tool for Librarians and Teachers alike b/c we are always worried about breaking copyright laws and Creative Commons gives us a way to work with the copyright laws without breaking them.
By the way . . .
The Disney video clip by itself is an example of Creative Commons the way that actual Disney movies were duplicated, altered, transformed, and edited to create a teaching tool.
1. Attribute - give credit to the original copyright author or creator
2. Noncommercial use - we can't sell or profit from the work
3. Share alike - we may alter, transform, add to , copy, and distribute as long as it is marked with a (cc) mark.
I think this is a wonderful tool for Librarians and Teachers alike b/c we are always worried about breaking copyright laws and Creative Commons gives us a way to work with the copyright laws without breaking them.
By the way . . .
The Disney video clip by itself is an example of Creative Commons the way that actual Disney movies were duplicated, altered, transformed, and edited to create a teaching tool.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Thing #22 - Podcasts: no iPods needed
http://www.donateyourweight.com/show/show_index.html
For this project on Podcasts I went to PodcastDirectory.com and searched under the "Health" category since I'm a Health teacher. I ended up at Trumix.com where I looked under the subtitle Health: Fitness & Nutrition - I found the podcast, "Donate Your Weight", Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. I listened to this podcast that was (8:32) 8 minutes/32 sec. in length about the rising obesity problem we have here in America. This was a very interesting podcast about how Americans eat unconsciously throughout each day. This lady issued this statement, "The rise in obesity rates are simply due to a net caloric imbalance of 100 calories per day. A calorie imbalance of this amont generates an average weight gain of about 10 lbs. a year". It's a snowball effect over time, 10 - 15 years. Her example was with Hershey's kisses. Four (4) Hershey's kisses are 100 calories. People at work with a bowl of Hershey kisses generally, unconsciously eat 5, 10, 15, 20 a day; 2 oreo cookies = 106 calories; an 8 oz. cola = 162 calories. Her point is that we as Americans mindlessly and unconsciously overindulge ourselves on a daily basis and over the course of time it adds up.
Anyhow, I thought PodcastDirectory was very simple and easy to use. It's just a matter of searching through and finding topics of interest. For this particular podcast I opened an RSS subscription to my Bloglines account for easy access. I also bookmarked it to my firefox bookmarks toolbar. I do believe that there are many, numerous podcasts that are Health related and could benefit my students to varying degrees. Creating our very own podcast would be a very interesting project. I don't know if I'm creative enough to produce my very own podcast, but there sure are plenty of topics to surf through and listen to. It's just a matter of finding topics relative to you and your subject area. The negative side is time constraints in the classroom. I'm not sure how efficient we can be with this tool in a classroom environment regarding time managment.
I'm certain with time and more research, I will find a podcast that will interest me enough to subscribe to and become a regular listener. I found one about the Dallas Cowboys that was pretty interesting, so i'm sure that as I surf through and listen to some of them I will eventually find one that really piques my interest.
Podcasts - new to me, but a very interesting concept!
For this project on Podcasts I went to PodcastDirectory.com and searched under the "Health" category since I'm a Health teacher. I ended up at Trumix.com where I looked under the subtitle Health: Fitness & Nutrition - I found the podcast, "Donate Your Weight", Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. I listened to this podcast that was (8:32) 8 minutes/32 sec. in length about the rising obesity problem we have here in America. This was a very interesting podcast about how Americans eat unconsciously throughout each day. This lady issued this statement, "The rise in obesity rates are simply due to a net caloric imbalance of 100 calories per day. A calorie imbalance of this amont generates an average weight gain of about 10 lbs. a year". It's a snowball effect over time, 10 - 15 years. Her example was with Hershey's kisses. Four (4) Hershey's kisses are 100 calories. People at work with a bowl of Hershey kisses generally, unconsciously eat 5, 10, 15, 20 a day; 2 oreo cookies = 106 calories; an 8 oz. cola = 162 calories. Her point is that we as Americans mindlessly and unconsciously overindulge ourselves on a daily basis and over the course of time it adds up.
Anyhow, I thought PodcastDirectory was very simple and easy to use. It's just a matter of searching through and finding topics of interest. For this particular podcast I opened an RSS subscription to my Bloglines account for easy access. I also bookmarked it to my firefox bookmarks toolbar. I do believe that there are many, numerous podcasts that are Health related and could benefit my students to varying degrees. Creating our very own podcast would be a very interesting project. I don't know if I'm creative enough to produce my very own podcast, but there sure are plenty of topics to surf through and listen to. It's just a matter of finding topics relative to you and your subject area. The negative side is time constraints in the classroom. I'm not sure how efficient we can be with this tool in a classroom environment regarding time managment.
I'm certain with time and more research, I will find a podcast that will interest me enough to subscribe to and become a regular listener. I found one about the Dallas Cowboys that was pretty interesting, so i'm sure that as I surf through and listen to some of them I will eventually find one that really piques my interest.
Podcasts - new to me, but a very interesting concept!
Thing #21 - Animoto
Thia is crazy! What fun! Animoto took some time to upload the images but the steps were just Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 simple. I don't know how they could make it any easier. This was a really fun project and I think of the 23 things, this might be my fav!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Thing #20 - Video & Audio sites/YouTube
Michael Jordans top 10 greatest highlight video clips/SpaceJam - "I Believe I can Fly" - take your pick: Since I'm a basketball coach and MJ is the greatest player to ever play the game, I thought it would be interesting to share this clip on my blog. I think YouTube is "greatness"! You can have so much fun with it and I think it's success is well documented and speaks for itself. You can do a search for any topic or subject and find almost any category you are looking for.
As for school or library use, I believe that students can use YouTube as a tool for classroom assignments or projects by preparing a curriculum based or content related video clip to share with the entire class. See ictbailey's blog - she posted the video clip that our son Cole uploaded onto YouTube for a Science project on the Everglades in Florida at The University of North Texas.
YouTube is "GREATNESS"! There are allot of worthless, fruitless videos on it but there are also allot of fun, interesting, and often educational clips. We have viewed many useful, informative educational video clips throughout this course, 23 Things.
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