June 30

From LIS 460 Summer 2007

1 Theme: Technology & Collaboration/Technology Behind Technology

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Theme: Technology & Collaboration/Technology Behind Technology

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Podcast

Listen to this week's podcast

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Readings

Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Tools for the Classroom. Chapters 4, 6 and 7.
Brisco, Shondra. Which Wiki is Right for You. School Library Journal, May 2007.
Howard, Linda and Max Anderson. RFID Technology in the Library Environment. Georgia Library Quarterly 44 no1 17-20 Spr 2007
Oberstein, Karen B. Invisible Access: Innovative School Library Programs in a Wireless World Knowledge Quest 34 no3 12-13 Ja/F 2006
Ross, Jan. Video Streaming: Why to do it, how to do It, where to get it. Multimedia and Internet @ Schools. Sep/Oct 2005.Vol.12, Iss. 5; pg. 9

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Weekly Activities

Watch the screencast on Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Along with watching the screencast make sure to investigate the collaborative opportunities that the web-based software provides. Find out how you can work on a document with your partner. Test out the collaboration opportunities with your partner. Jointly create a document in Google as a team that discusses your thoughts on technology as a collaboration tool. Jointly create a document that discusses your thoughts on using a web-based word processing collaboration tool for student collaboration. When you and your partner have completed your document email me the URL of your document so that I can access it and grade it. Post the name of you and your partner below:

 Google Docs Collaboration Partners (There should be 8 groups of 2 and 1 group of 3)
1)Amy Bloom, Elisabeth Zimmer
2)Breigh Ann Menza, Sara Ross, & Paul Orzech
3)Kate Covintree and Erin Daly
4)Erica Braverman and Maryrose Little
5)Becky and Amanda Pegg-Wheat
6)Kris Foti and Eileen Parks 
7)Tina Sherlock and Elizabeth Rey
8)Jennie Simopoulos and Amity Johnson
9)Janet Frasca and Anna Jubito

Browse through Wikipedia and look up topics that you know something about. Think about how you would change these entries. Go ahead and make a change if you feel comfortable doing that. Look at at least three of the wikis mentioned by Richardson in the wiki chapter of the textbook. Think about how these sites could be used by and with teachers and students. The wikis mentioned by Richardson are:
Look up the following on wikipedia:
- Server
- Client
- Router
- Hub
- Memory (RAM)
- Hard Drive
- RAID
- RFID
- Linux
- Streaming
- FTP
- Domain Name
- Web Host
Post every question you have about technology behind technology on the discussion board for the week. Answer any of your classmate's questions. Feel free to ask questions based that relate to your classmate's questions. If you have a related question make sure to include it underneath the original question. Add questions throughout the week and answer questions throughout the week. Feel free to edit answers as you learn more.

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Skype Calls

Monday, July 2, 10:00 AM - unedited recording of the call.

Links we talked about - BookLovers Wiki, Rundlett Middle School Wiki, Ioda Promonet.

Linda
Amy Bloom
Becky
Janet Frasca
Name here

Monday, July 2, 7:30 PM - unedited recording of the call.

Linda
Kris Foti
Amanda Pegg-Wheat
Amity Johnson
Kate Covintree

Tuesday, July 3, 10:00 AM unedited recording of the call.

Linda
Paul Orzech
Sara Ross
Erica Braverman
Jennie Simopoulos

Friday, July 6, 10:00 AM unedited recording of the call.

Linda
Elisabeth
Anna Jubilo
Maryrose Little
Erin Daly

Friday, July 6, 4:00 PM unedited recording of the call.

Linda
Tina
Eileen
Breigh Ann
Elizabeth Rey

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Assignment Due

Podcast due at the end of this week. Post your name below with a link to your blog post on podomatic that links to your podcast and includes your criteria.

Elisabeth's podcast and podcast criteria

Sara's podcast and podcast criteria

Janet's [http://lis_460.podomatic.com/ and http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dfszg3dx_3c25crb&hl=en_US

Erica's podcast and podcast criteria

Breigh Ann's podcast and criteria

Amity's podcast and podcast criteria

Paul's podcast and criteria

Eileen's podcastand criteria

Kate's podcast and her criteria too and here's how I put it on my blog

Becky's podcast and podcast criteria

Amanda's podcast and podcast criteria

Tina's podcast and criteria