Alice Mercer's PD Blog

Recap of Taste of Web 2.0 Training

April 24th, 2008 by alicemercer in web2.0 · No Comments

Here are the links in a more readable format:

http://www.diigo.com/list/alicemercer/web-20-training

Following up, I’m always (pleasantly) surprised at what ends up being popular at these trainings. The application of the hour seemed to be Flickr photo sharing.

Here are the links for Flickr:

http://flickr.com Flickr photo site

http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ Free photos for non-comercial use (and sometime for commercial use)

http://www.flickrbits.com/ Flickr has a number of tools that outsiders have created to make it even better. This is a list of tools to use with Flickr photos.

I will be posting up info about the Summer Institute and next year’s trainings in the next few months, so check back. Once again if you have any questions, concerns, or problems, send a comment to me. I want to help!

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A Taste of Web 2.0 April 24, 2008

April 24th, 2008 by alicemercer in web2.0 · No Comments

My slideshow:

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Educause Handouts:

Wikis
RSS
Social Bookmarking
Collaborative Editing (GoogleDocs)
Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling

Some videos:

Google Docs in Plain English:
Download Video: Posted by leelefever at TeacherTube.com.

RSS in Plain English:
Download Video: Posted by leelefever at TeacherTube.com.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English:

Download Video: Posted by leelefever at TeacherTube.com.

Wikis in Plain English:
Download Video: Posted by edtecher at TeacherTube.com.

Here are the links for the training:

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Preview of A Taste of Web 2.0 Training

April 16th, 2008 by alicemercer in trainings · web2.0 · No Comments

I will be holding a training on Web 2.0 applications on Thursday April 24, 2008 from 4 - 6p.m.

You can preview the materials here: http://mercertraining.edublogs.org/2008/03/27/a-taste-of-web-20-training/

Web 2.0 refers to tools on the Web that allow users to comment, and create. There are many great, free tools for you to use in your classroom with students.

If you are interested, the Course Code is: EDTECH20142 on the Electronic Registrar. Feel free to leave any questions here.

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ETLN Presentation

April 6th, 2008 by alicemercer in presentations · 2 Comments

Hello! It was a fantastic meeting everyone in the ETLN last night, and a really productive group. Your interest and curiousity kept me on my toes (a good thing).

As promised, here are some links on Diigo. These links include YouTubes and sceencasts showing an AP History teacher who is using Diigo for notetaking homework in his class:

Alicemercer's Favorite Links on diigo from Diigo

Next here are note taken by Laura MacDonald (thank you Laura)

and here is the video. The quality of the shots are not great, and due to technical problems, it was cut-off a couple times (hence the four different videos. I think I will be working on the video technique going forward, but I thank you for being part of this learning process for me.

http://www.ustream.tv/search/all/ETLN

Finally, once again, here are is the slideshow that was the bones of the presentation. I will be posting the final presentations from my students here in the next few weeks so you can see how this all turned out for me.

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I look forward to seeing you all in May!

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Preview of CTAP3 - ETLN Presentation

April 1st, 2008 by alicemercer in presentations · web2.0 · No Comments

On Tuesday April 8, 2008 I’ll be doing a presentation for California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) Region 3 at Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE). The meeting of the Educational Technology Leadership Network (ETLN) goes from 4 - 7 p.m. and includes a dinner at 6. My topic will be about using technology to scaffold and structure research projects, and will include some discussion of digital storytelling.

If you can’t make it in person, you can watch it on the web starting at about 4:20 p.m. (PDT) at: http://edtechtalk.com/live

A preview of sites I’ll look at:

ETLN Presentation