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Confessions of a Digital Hoarder

Confessions of a Digital Hoarder | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it

"Curation, reflection, and contribution are all equal components within this model. Curation requires learners to evaluate information and organize it. Reflection encourages learners to unpack their learning in public spaces, such as blogs. Contribution demands that learners “give back” to both digital and face-to-face communities either through discussion or production. By engaging in all three parts of this model, educators can ensure that they adequately synthesize and consider important artifacts. This process is a far cry from simply storing and organizing “cool stuff.” 


     After engaging in the User Generated Learning process for almost a year, I [Kristen Swanson] can attest that it results in rich, social learning. I only save that which is aligned to my goals and the goals of others with whom I connect. I have fewer links, videos, and interactive sites, but I have more conversations and perspectives to consider. I’ve joined this course as a way to increase my focus on community, not content."

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GroupTweet | Pages

GroupTweet | Group Twitter Accounts Made Easy

 

"GroupTweet enables 2 to 100,000+ contributors to tweet from the same account. No longer is the burden of content creation on one person's shoulders. Contributors' names can be hidden or displayed at the beginning or end of each Tweet. Whether you have a small group powering a company account or thousands of people powering a group account, you can leverage the power of the crowd with GroupTweet!"

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How do you build community when the number of participants is 1000+ from across the planet?

 

#etmooc will be using this digital tool as one way to facilitate community for the people participating in this 2013 course.

 

To see the site in action, you can go here: http://goo.gl/V3e7l

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10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship

10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it

"YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy’s videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there’s a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship. A topic obviously quite close to Google’s heart.

Google (which owns YouTube) built the lessons to educate students about YouTube’s policies, how to flag content, how to be a safer online citizen, and protect their identities.

Below is a list of lessons, and the recommended flow for delivery. Lessons are designed to fit within 50 minute classes, but can be adapted to fit your schedule:"

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Digital Citizenship Poster

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Go way beyond Internet safety. Turn students into great digital citizens.


Get all the tools you need with our FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and Parent Media Education Program. The relevant, ready-to-use instruction helps you guide students to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world where they live, study and play.

 

Every day, your students are tested with each post, search, chat, text message, file download, and profile update. Will they connect with like minds or spill TMI to the wrong people?

 

Will they behave creatively or borrow ideas recklessly? Will they do the right thing or take shortcuts?

 

Read more here: http://goo.gl/kGNMZ

 


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Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it
The veteran technology commentator argues that a better understanding of how we connect our attention and intentions online can help individuals and society.
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Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules

Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it
Exactly what a “like” means played a part in a case in Virginia involving six people who say Sheriff B. J. Roberts of Hampton fired them for supporting an opponent in his 2009 re-election bid.
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Internet Safety Project

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Is this your first time visiting the Internet Safety Project? Don’t worry we were once new too.

 

Here are a few tips to get you started! Just look for the phrase that best describes you.

I want advice from Internet Safety Experts
Read our blogs here. All of our guest bloggers are Internet safety experts who give great practical advice!

 

You can also listen to our podcasts! We interview experts and talk about current Internet safety issues.


Every podcast we record is available online for free. Click here to see the full selection.

You can also access blogs and podcasts using the tabs at the top of the site.

I am an Educator or Parent looking for Internet safety resources
You’ve come to the right place! You can search for articles from the main wiki page here for articles on Internet Safety. Or just use the search bar in the upper right hand corner.

 

You can also look at the resources other Internet safety organizations (See a complete list of Internet Safety Organizations and Products here). Some sites even include curriculum or volunteer programs that you can implement in your community or school. Check out the categories below to get started:

 

- Organizations for Parents
- Educational Organizations
- I want to know what’s going on in Internet and Technology news right now!
- Read some of our Newswire Reports ( The box on the right side of the site). We post a new report everyday on current internet safety and technology issues.

 

You can also follow us on twitter and Facebook. We’ll let you know what’s going on in the Internet world, and when our new blogs and podcasts are up.

 

- I just want to know more about the Internet and the issues out there. Where should I start?


You can search our Internet Safety Project Wiki (search bar in the upper right hand corner), but if you're not even sure what to look for you might want to start by browsing some of our popular pages.

 

Try starting with our list of wiki articles on Internet basics. These are things that you will probably stumble across in normal computer use, such as: acronyms, browsers, e-mail, and search engines.


Here are articles on some of the bigger safety issues we cover:


- Pornography
- Online Games Addiction
- Identity Theft
- Malware
- Viruses
- Social Networking
- Cyberbullying
- Online Predators
- Texting

 

  Link: http://www.internetsafetyproject.org/

 

 


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A Decade of Decline in Online Youth Victimization

A Decade of Decline in Online Youth Victimization | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it

“A new study from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center finds declines in two kinds of youth Internet sexual encounters of great concern to parents: unwanted sexual solicitations and unwanted exposure to pornography. The researchers suspect that greater public awareness may have been, in part, what has helped.

 

The study found that the percentage of youth receiving unwanted online sexual requests declined from 13 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2010. Youth experiencing unwanted pornography exposure declined from 34 percent to 23 percent over the same period.

 

On the other hand, youth reports of online harassment increased slightly from 2005, up from 9 percent to 11 percent.

 

The study, “Trends in Youth Internet Victimization: Findings From Three Youth Internet Safety Surveys 2000–2010,” was published today online in the Journal of Adolescent Health. It is based on national surveys of youth ages 10 through 17 conducted in 2000, 2005, and 2010."

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Accomplishments, Learning, and Reflecting | staciajo's blog

"It is amazing the accomplishments that I have achieved in the last two weeks, while starting two Educational Technology grad courses.

 

MY TOP 10 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:


1. Took part in three ETMOOC sessions.

 

2. Was able to navigate into Blackboard Collaborate.  This seemed to work easier on my Mac laptop than on my IMAC due to some downloading issues with Java.

 

3. Started using Twitter, unlocked my account and began sending tweets.

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#ETMOOC | A MOOC about educational technology & media – Coming January 2013

MOOC = Massive Open Online Course

"This space will act as an information hub for #etmooc, an open, online experience that is designed to facilitate & nurture conversations around the thoughtful integration of educational technology & media in teaching and learning.

Think of #etmooc as an experience situated somewhere between a course and a community. While there will be scheduled webinars and information shared each week, we know that there is a lot more that we will collectively need to do if we want to create a truly collaborative and passionate community.

We’re aiming to carry on those important conversations in many different spaces – through the use of social networks, collaborative tools, shared hashtags, and in personalized spaces. What #etmooc eventually becomes, and what it will mean to you, will depend upon the ways in which you participate and the participation and activities of all of its members. Let’s see if we can create something that is not just another hashtag – and, not just another course.

Some exciting topics will be explored during the #etmooc experience. We’ll be leading conversations around many of the recently popularized technologies, media and literacies including social/participatory media, blended/online learning environments, digital literacies, open education, digital citizenship/identity, copyright/copyleft, and multimedia in education. We hope that this list of topics will grow as we expand our membership and tap into the expertise of our participants. However it is not the topics that we cover, but it is what we discover, create and share together that will be critical to the success of the etmooc experience."

"Topics & Tentative Schedule (Revised as of January 9, 2013)

The 2013 tentative schedule of topics is found below. More detailed information will be provided soon, including exact dates and connection information. Each topic is 2 weeks long so that there is adequate attention and depth.

 

Welcome (Jan 13-19): Welcome Event & Orientation to #etmooc

 

Topic 1 (Jan 20-Feb. 2): Connected Learning – Tools, Processes & Pedagogy

Topic 2 (Feb 3-16): Digital Storytelling – Multimedia, Remixes & Mashups

Topic 3 (Feb 17-Mar 2): Digital Literacy – Information, Memes & Attention

Topic 4 (Mar 3-16): The Open Movement – Open Access, OERs & Future of Ed.

Topic 5 (Mar 17-30): Digital Citizenship – Identity, Footprint, & Social Activism

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Looks like it's going to be a great course.

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  21things4students

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"This site was created by a grant from the REMC Association of Michigan for the creation of an educational resource for students preparing for 21st century skills. Members of the REMC Instructional Technology Specialists in Michigan along with teachers from around the state have created this site to provide project-based activities which are aligned to the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S), and the Michigan Educational Technology Standards for students (METS) as well as the Framework for 21st Century Learning identified by the Partnership For 21st Century Skills."
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Students Cite YouTube, Google, Wikipedia The Most

Students Cite YouTube, Google, Wikipedia The Most | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it
When doing homework, many students turn to the same websites as they do when they're surfing the web.
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Information Liberation: Your Guide to the International Web

Information Liberation: Your Guide to the International Web | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it
The world wide web is supposed to be just that: world wide.

Sometimes it simply isn’t, however:

This Guide, by author Jim Rion,  is a must-have for anyone looking for access to the complete Internet. 

 

This complete guide to the International web will show you: http://bit.ly/Joo3QB ;


**Which governments around the world restrict Internet access
**Whether its ethical to bypass such restrictions, and which tools to use
**Encrypting your web browsing and email for secure communications
**How to find Internet access while traveling by knowing where to look
**Buying a computer while abroad: an ex-pat’s guide
**Setting up your computer to display non-alphabetic languages
**Getting the most out of translation tools
**Accessing media blocked in your country using VPN and more

 

Download Guide [PDF] Here: http://bit.ly/Joo3QB ;


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Creative Commons Licenses and Attribution: How To Embed Them Inside Your Digital Content

Creative Commons Licenses and Attribution: How To Embed Them Inside Your Digital Content | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it

Robin Good: JISC provides a very well documented guide to the use of Creative Commons licences (also referred to as CC licences) which can greatly facilitate the copying, reuse, distribution, and in some cases, the modification of the original owner’s creative work without needing to get permission each time from the original rights holder.

 

In addition to this the correct use and embedding of CC license may greatly help in the effort to make original sources more transparent to the final reader, in many context, including news and content curation efforts of many kinds.

 

Creative Commons licences can be embedded into a variety of resources, such as PowerPoint, images, Word docs, elearning resources, podcasts and other audio visual resources.

 

While specifically prepared for UK public sector organizations this document can be quite useful for anyone interested in the use of CC licenses to distribute digital content online.

 

Key Benefits of embedding CC licences for content curation and attribution:

 

- It can help the user see that the resource is an 'open' resource and licensed under a specific CC licence terms


- It can help reduce the future 'orphan works' (works for which the rights holders are unknown or cannot be traced), and assist in creation of appropriate attribution, citation and potential negotiation for further permissions. By embedding the selected CC licence to the licence details even if the resource gets detached from its metadata. This is particularly the case if the resource is found via a search engine instead of the original website platform which might host specific copyright restrictions.

 

More info: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2011/scaembeddingcclicencesbp.aspx ;

 

(Thanks to Amber Thomas for finding this resource)


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Cyberbullying: How to Stay Safe

Cyberbullying: How to Stay Safe | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it

"It's really important that parents understand how the Internet works and how young people are using it.

 

There's no point to having a conversation with your child about how they use social networking sites if you have no idea what Facebook, MSN or instant messenger is.

 

It's not about taking over their world or spying on them. It's about understanding and appreciating it."


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Twenty Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment

Twenty Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment | Learning, Teaching & Leading Today | Scoop.it
In her work with UCLA's Graduate School of Education, Rebecca Alber assists teachers and schools in meeting students' academic needs through best practices. Alber also instructs online teacher-education courses for Stanford University.

"Twenty Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment

I visit a lot of classrooms. And I'm always fascinated by the variety of ways teachers launch the new school year and also with how they "run their rooms" on a daily basis. From these visits and my own experiences as an instructor, I'd like to offer my top 20 suggestions for keeping your classroom a safe, open, and inviting place to learn."
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