I’m reading the book, Every Day Anti-Racism; Getting Real about Race in School, edited by Mica Pollock. It is a series of short essays by many great contributors. Part I includes essays that share a core principle that race categories are not biological or genetic realities. They are categories that humans made up. In the first essay by Alan Goodman, his topic is to teach students why race is an obsolete biological concept.
Saturday, June 21, I read the article, “To honor son, Dad donates kidney, kicking off life-saving transplant chain” by Tom Rademacher, Grand Rapids Press. This is a great article that demonstrates the point presented in the essay by Alan Goodman. Take a look at the people donating their kidneys and who they matched, how does race play into it! Race is not biological and this would be a great article to use to demonstrate it. I hope you will share this with other colleagues.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/06/to_honor_son_dad_donates_kidne.html
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Thing 23: The Journey Continues...
WOW what a journey! Thank you Carol and Jacki at Wayne RESA for pulling this together and letting me participate. This was easy to do, easy to understand, great information, great videos, and a wealth of information! There a definite tools that I will use more, a few not so much - but loved the opportunity to learn about all of them. I love Web 2.0 and the potential to inspire educators to use in the classroom, for students to experience, share, and collaborate. The classroom isn't the classroom I grew up with and with these types of tools, it shouldn't be!
I'd love to provide this 23 Things to educators in my district - is there a way to package it up and duplicate (like Moodle)?
I'll continue to seek other Web 2.0 applications through del.icio.us, Macul, conferences, colleagues, publications, etc. For the next 23 Things websites to consider: Twitter, Weebly, Protopage, Ning, Vyew, Voicethread, PictureTrail, Our Story, MyStudiyo, Animoto, 50 Story Tools (blog), Nettrekker, the many things on Google, Top 100 Tools for Learning (contribute your top 10) and the many many more...
Again, thank you for this learning experience!
I'd love to provide this 23 Things to educators in my district - is there a way to package it up and duplicate (like Moodle)?
I'll continue to seek other Web 2.0 applications through del.icio.us, Macul, conferences, colleagues, publications, etc. For the next 23 Things websites to consider: Twitter, Weebly, Protopage, Ning, Vyew, Voicethread, PictureTrail, Our Story, MyStudiyo, Animoto, 50 Story Tools (blog), Nettrekker, the many things on Google, Top 100 Tools for Learning (contribute your top 10) and the many many more...
Again, thank you for this learning experience!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Thing 22: Embed & Download Video
I chose to embed "Last Lecture Revisited" (short version) about Randy Pausch, very inspirational:
I highly recommend watching the full version.
I didn't think the embedding was working, maintenance was work going on at YouTube as I tried to finish up my Things, but after checking the preview they were there!
I uploaded a movie to YouTube that my daughter and I created (using Movie Maker) after attending Hannah Montana concert at Joe Louis in Detroit. She had a blast playing with the transitions.
I had a hard time with this Thing, I kept running into problems with my computer locking up. I've spent a huge amount of time on this Thing - Whew I'm glad it's done!
The right videos can be a great asset and tool in the classroom. Kids can create projects and share with a world wide audience - very powerful motivator!
Thing 21: Online Video
I've been a member of YouTube for awhile. My kids love to find fun or funny videos to check out (so far the tagging has been appropriate). I can see how five minutes of fame can be overpowering on judgment, ex: girls beating on another girl just to post a video on the internet (sure you've hear of it - not willing to provide a link to aid to the insanity). There are awe inspiring videos to benefit from: Last Lecture (I've used to motivate teachers, I recommend watching the full version) or Sportsmanship (other searches NCAA softball) or something for fun Two Guys (a friend of mine's daughter on a spring break trip with some really fun kids), my 7 year old daughter has it posted on her website through weebly.com (free website Web 2.0 site).
Youtube is not banned from my office, but I believe it is banned for teachers. Student safety is primary in a school building. I truly believe kids know and use this site much more than parents and educators could fathom!
I've checked out TeacherTube previously, I think it will become a great resource for educators, as they become training on using the technology available to them to use in their classroom. How do we get them to try these tools? How do we get the districts to invest in teacher training? With 23 Things available, there is not a lot of risk - just try it - this needs to become a benchmark for educators, but is administration and the state willing to support in?
Youtube is not banned from my office, but I believe it is banned for teachers. Student safety is primary in a school building. I truly believe kids know and use this site much more than parents and educators could fathom!
I've checked out TeacherTube previously, I think it will become a great resource for educators, as they become training on using the technology available to them to use in their classroom. How do we get them to try these tools? How do we get the districts to invest in teacher training? With 23 Things available, there is not a lot of risk - just try it - this needs to become a benchmark for educators, but is administration and the state willing to support in?
Thing 20: RSS Revisited
Thank you for thing 20! I haven't checked in regularly...end of the year...blah...blah...blah...
I went to add Mitch Album's feed from Detroit Free Press (one of my favorite authors) and actually forgot I had the Bloglines button on my toolbar! Yes, I did it the long way, cut and paste, yada yada yada!
It was great to reorganize and get feeds placed in folders, which will making my revisits this summer much more conducive to getting information I need (or information that I didn't know existed prior to 23 Things and bloglines).
RSS has not become a habit yet (unfortunately), I expect it to become an obsession over the summer and beyond.
I went to add Mitch Album's feed from Detroit Free Press (one of my favorite authors) and actually forgot I had the Bloglines button on my toolbar! Yes, I did it the long way, cut and paste, yada yada yada!
It was great to reorganize and get feeds placed in folders, which will making my revisits this summer much more conducive to getting information I need (or information that I didn't know existed prior to 23 Things and bloglines).
RSS has not become a habit yet (unfortunately), I expect it to become an obsession over the summer and beyond.
Thing 19: Bookmarking with del.icio.us
My del.icio.us site http://del.icio.us/juliemushing
I began bookmarking items I've found through taking this course, beginning with podcasting. I love that it gives you tags that others have used and also "remembers" tags that I've entered. I really see this as a powerful learning tool. I will more than likely get more than I give! I'm excited to look for other colleagues and the pages that they've bookmarked. It can be a tremendous resource for all content areas.
How powerful this tool can be in the classroom. Creating tags for students to use on research project that you can reference for years to come ~ what a benefit to other students!
I see this as a definite tool to enhance productivity. If I'm looking for an educational resource, I'll now begin here before google! I'll be able to find more specific resources, tools, ideas, and concepts much quicker and I'll get to see how many others felt it was a valuable site.
WOW - I can't believe it took me soooo... long to check into del.icio.us...it's scrumptious!
I began bookmarking items I've found through taking this course, beginning with podcasting. I love that it gives you tags that others have used and also "remembers" tags that I've entered. I really see this as a powerful learning tool. I will more than likely get more than I give! I'm excited to look for other colleagues and the pages that they've bookmarked. It can be a tremendous resource for all content areas.
How powerful this tool can be in the classroom. Creating tags for students to use on research project that you can reference for years to come ~ what a benefit to other students!
I see this as a definite tool to enhance productivity. If I'm looking for an educational resource, I'll now begin here before google! I'll be able to find more specific resources, tools, ideas, and concepts much quicker and I'll get to see how many others felt it was a valuable site.
WOW - I can't believe it took me soooo... long to check into del.icio.us...it's scrumptious!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Thing 18: Social Bookmarking
Tagging a great way to organize websites and find new resources from other peoples tags!
I began using Google notebooks to mark websites. I liked that I could access it from any computer. The problem I have is the same as adding one to my favorites in my browser - the site I want to find is in a file somewhere! Google notebooks doesn't have the tag feature, nor the social networking aspect.
I know many colleagues that talk about del.icio.us. I was curious enough to go look, but didn't have the time to truly investigate it. I'm looking forward to using this service and having all my stuff better organized by tags!
With the work I do, educational technology and diversity, there are many sites that both areas are included. For example, connecting with students from another country to learn about their culture and teach them about ours - e3Links project with MSU is such a site. I'll now be able to tag it with "diversity" and "technology"!
I began using Google notebooks to mark websites. I liked that I could access it from any computer. The problem I have is the same as adding one to my favorites in my browser - the site I want to find is in a file somewhere! Google notebooks doesn't have the tag feature, nor the social networking aspect.
I know many colleagues that talk about del.icio.us. I was curious enough to go look, but didn't have the time to truly investigate it. I'm looking forward to using this service and having all my stuff better organized by tags!
With the work I do, educational technology and diversity, there are many sites that both areas are included. For example, connecting with students from another country to learn about their culture and teach them about ours - e3Links project with MSU is such a site. I'll now be able to tag it with "diversity" and "technology"!
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