Rip, Mix, Learn
Metaphors
Rip Mix Learn
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
My Three Criteria
- do one job VERY well
- free
- fit into the "Small Pieces, Loosely Joined" paradigm
Build Your Teaching Experience (BYTE).
February 24, 2006.
Metaphors
Rip Mix Learn
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
My Three Criteria
Weblogs in Education Video, from Will Richardson (time: 2:28)
What I do with blogs in the classroom:
What can YOU do with blogs? The Possibilities Are Limitless
Explore Classroom Blogs (time 5 min)
- Pre-Cal 20S (dormant)
- Pre-Cal 30S (dormant)
- Pre-Cal 40S (dormant)
- Applied Math 40S
- Pre-Cal 40S (Winter '06)
- AP Calculus
- Room 208 (Grade3/4 class)
- Grade 7 Math Blogorama at Sargent Park
- Sargent Park's Grade 8 Math Zone
- Secret Life of Bees
- The Write Weblog
- ESL Bullying Blog
- In Need of Coffee (High School Literature)
- American Studies
- Bud's Blogging Experiment
- Excellence and Imagination (Grades 7 and 8)
Explore Teacher Blogs (time 5 min)
- A Difference (Darren Kuropatwa)
- Bud The Teacher (Bud Hunt)
- Blog of Proximal Development (Konrad Glogowski)
- Edublog Insights (Anne Davis)
- Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson)
- Remote Access (Clarence Fisher)
- Mentor Matters (Mrs. Ris)
- The Open Classrom (Jo McLeay)
- edublogs (Ewan McIntosh)
- The Education Wonks (Ed Wonk --
the home of The Carnival of Education)
Your Turn To Jump In (time: 20 min)
Something to take home with you ...
In case you forget how to set up your own account and write your first post at Blogger you can watch this video. ;-)
- What is a "Killer App"
- RDF Site Summary vrs.
Rich Site Syndication vrs.
Real Simple Syndication vrs.
XML
- What is "Atom?"
- Feeds and Aggregators; Magazine Subscriptions and Mailboxes
- Bloglines
- Newspaper RSS feeds
- Recognizing feeds and how to use them
- Subscribe to the Future
- Finding more feeds: Blogrolls; your browser
- screencast tutorial on Bloglines
- Educator's Guide to RSS.pdf (by Will Richardson)
- 50+ RSS Ideas for Educators v1.11 (by Quentin D'Souza)
Let's sign up and find some feeds! (Time: 10 min)
More to Explore
Things you can do with RSS.
Cool things teachers can do with RSS. (Example)
(1) furl
(2) del.icio.us
(3) A Whole Lot More
Create a furl or a del.icio.us account and/or check out these very cool del.icio.us tools! Most of the tools are useful only after you've been using del.icio.us for a while. ;-)
More to Explore
You could easily spend hours on this .... we've got 10 minutes. ;-)
Flickr is a photo sharing site that goes beyond the basics.
(1) It can:
- store photos (upload up to 10MB per month)
- share photos (send invitations)
- tag photos (for easy finding and sharing)
- add notes to your photos
- add and receive comments
- create sets or albums (limit of 3 with the free version)
- creates multiple versions (great for use on websites and blogs)
- upload:
- from your computer
- from your cameraphone
- to your blog
- provide access to other's photos
- set privacy levels to your photos
- assign who has access to your photos
- join or create groups
- create RSS feeds
(2) Creative Commons
(3) Play Time!
Create an account and/or check out these very cool flickr tools!
More to Explore
You could easily spend hours on this .... we've got 10 minutes. ;-)
It's about an hour long. He discusses three things that kids need to learn to be successful members of society in the future.
- Information Literacy
- manage massive amounts of information- Global Communication Skills
- think globally- Self Directed Learning and Work
- be self-directed in their learning
Below, you'll find another vision of the future. Some of its implications are a little frightening but it is based on events and technologies that are current today. If you're not up-to-date with the latest web 2.0 technologies it can be hard to identify the point in the video where the speculation begins -- the item about "Reason Magazine" really happened.
Will Richardson wrote this on August 21, 2005.
Netvibes, a new web 2.0 app, came online on September 15, 2005. It's a customizable web-based desktop run almost entirely by RSS feeds.
The future is here, and it CAN be evenly distributed."
Darren Kuropatwa
One last thing. The list of classroom and teacher blogs in the blogging section omits a great many excellent educators and blogs. My appologies to them. I tried to keep the lists small so as not to overwhelm the workshop participants. If you think there is a glaring ommission please email me and let me know.
Thank you to:
The "Rip, Mix, Learn" metaphor originated with Alan Levine. Alan's work has had a significant impact on my thinking about educational technology. For a more indepth look at these technologies see Alan's "Rip. Mix. Learn." Workshop given on November 16, 2004.
The idea of using a blog as a presentation tool is another one of Alan's original ideas. See:
The "Small Pieces, Loosely Joined" metaphor originated with David Weinberger's book of the same name.