Daily Bookmarks 05/10/2008
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FactCheckED: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy
Lesson plan for teaching logical fallacies using political and commercial advertising, plus Monty Python. Aligned to National Social Studies standards and NETS info literacy.
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Let Your Online Learning Community Grow (pdf)
3 Design Principles for Growing Successful Email Listservs and Online Forums in Educational Settings. Even though the technology discussed is a little dated (the paper was written in 1998), the principles for online learning communities are still relevant.
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Working with online learning communities
Best practices for working with online learning communities, including how to work with lurkers who may still be learning even if they aren’t actively participating.
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- online learning communities are grown, not built
- online learning communities need leaders
- personal narrative is vital to online learning communities.
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He gives a set of mantras for teacher/leaders in any online community:
- all you need is love
- control the environment, not the group
- lead by example
- let lurkers lurk
- short leading questions get conversations going
- be personally congratulatory and inquisitive
- route information in all directions
- care about the people in the community; this cannot be faked
- understand consensus and how to build it, and sense when it’s been built and just not recognised, and when you have to make a decision despite all the talking.
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The Connected Classroom: A Lesson on Reflection: MORE Copyright Confusion…
A teacher’s reflections on using images from Flickr. Although she encouraged the use of Creative Commons images, the nature of the student work clearly fell under fair use. Even so, she got complaints from photographers about the fair use of their work. She wrote a really thoughtful response to the Flickr users and had a great discussion with her students about copyright.
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Student projects showing trigonometry concepts through annotated Flickr images. The pink sweater is my favorite.
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What to do with a visually noisy blog » VisualsSpeak Blog
Christine Martell explains blog visuals with some usability and color theory. First in a series where she will help a blogger work on making his content easier to find.
Kia Ora Chirsty!
Gee am I stoked that you found that article by Caleb Clark useful stuff. Y’know it’s almost last century research and Marcy Bauman’s was even earlier than Clark’s. I’ve had some amazing responses from people over that article – not that many got in contact with me, but I stumbled across an article in Spanish by
Gabinetedeinformatica
authors Sheryl Naussbaum-Beach and Fernado S. What a hoot! DOn’t bother trying to translate it – apparently they translated the whole of the article that Futurelab posted for it obviously caused a bit of a stir! Hee-hee!
Ka kite
from Middle-earth