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Warlick's CoLearners

Backchannel Chat for Waterloo Presentation on
Contemporary Literacy

May 1, 2009

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:04:18
Hello all!

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:06:03
I'm excited to get going!

David Warlick (NC) • 2009-05-01 12:06:36
Me too!

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:06:57
Isn't it your show?

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:07:05
:P

David Warlick (NC) • 2009-05-01 12:07:07
ok here we go

David Warlick (NC) • 2009-05-01 12:08:47
blah blah blah

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:08:56
be nice

Chris () • 2009-05-01 12:10:49
Hi w'all!

Kim (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:14:41
multi-tasking! love it!

Clovis (NC) • 2009-05-01 12:15:13
I'm looking forward to reading your conversation...

Laura (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:15:16
Hi David

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:15:22
Exciting!

Chris () • 2009-05-01 12:15:31
Hi David

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:15:46
http://davidwarlick.com/handouts

Todd (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:16:06
thanks rick

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:17:28
his presentation is done online at http://prezi.com

Actually, they have a desktop editor now. That's what I was using, the desktop version. Early on, you had to be on the web to edit presentations, which was tough when I'm accustomed to be working on presentations on the plane.

What I find interesting and useful about Prezi is the way it makes you plan. Rather than working sequentially, from one idea to the next, Prezi is one document that you drill down into. It forces you to remain connected to the basic idea of the presentation.

Jason (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:17:50
thanks for the sites

Kim (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:19:31
blog tags were....warlick, redefine....and ????

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:19:46
@kim literacy

warlick
redefine
literacy

Kim (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:20:01
thanx

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:22:49
http://secondlife.com/

Phil (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:27:17
I think I need close supervision still.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:29:30
Always with aloe!

I have no idea was aloe is!

Chris () • 2009-05-01 12:29:55
Keep focused phil. Im watching you

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:31:36
What's an xo bit?

michelle (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:32:26
exabyte

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:32:46
=About 185x the volume of the Library of Congress

I didn't share this one, that according to another study, we generated 161 exabytes in 2006. It is the rise of multimedia -- YouTube...

Todd (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:32:48
it's kissy huggy bit

Laura (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:33:38
Ahhhhhh...... an xo bit...how sweet.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:34:53
slick

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:35:13
I will need shoes to match that wearable Tech stuff

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:35:14
don't wear it during a thunderstorm

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:35:36
Ohh Corriander

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:36:13
can you chew gum at the same time?

Only if you're ears are aligned to the east and west. It's a magnetic thing ;-) I'm at the airport now and a bit gitty. Got through customs with no complications.

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:36:47
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_dem os_the_sixth_sense.html --TED video on wearable technology.

I didn't know about this one. Will have to check it out...

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:38:08
cloud computing is growing

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:38:28
RON? I would like 20 Netbooks PLEEEEASE...

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:38:35
We will need a policy when kids want to start bringing netbooks to school.

I wonder if that's where it's going. I was talking with a tech director of a private school in northern California a while back. The required students to come to school with a computer. They didn't care what kind -- Mac, Windows, Linux. The only stipulation was that you could word process, work a spreadsheet, create presentations, make video, and make music.

I liked the set up because the focus was on the application, rather than the technology.

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:39:05
and wireless networking

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:39:16
AT this time we are disallowing electronics, e.g., mp3 players and cell phones.

We use to disallow calculators. What's interesting is how they have changed the nature of the questions we ask -- much higher on the Bloom's Taxonomy...

What questions do we start asking on our tests when students are walking into the classroom with Google in their pockets.

Kim (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:39:56
how do we monitor what comes in from home?

I don't think that we can. It seems that we sould restructure what we have our students do in their learning so that it takes advantage of their connections.

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:40:33
"Help our students leverage unpredictability". -D.Warlick

But how do you teach creativity and innovation? Can you teach it? I don't know, I'm struggling with that one. I like the term "inventiveness" better than "creativity."

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:40:58
teach them- to teach themselves to monitor it?

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:41:19
it's much more expensive for a student to lose a netbook than a pencil

This might actually be a good thing. There is a very poor, rural district in eastern North Carolina, that gave MacBooks to all of the middle and high school students. These were very poor and very hard to teach students. The year before the initiative, only 29% of the graduating seniors went on to a post-secondary institution. At the end of the first year, it was up to 79%. After the second year, it was up to 84%. It was partly because the district was trusting the students with expensive technology -- respecting them.

Ron () • 2009-05-01 12:41:48
Kate - I have 20 old iBooks that don't work anymore. Would that work for you?

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:42:39
I already have a Portable full of them!!

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:46:34
I have kids coming up to me to verify their website information.

Well, at least they're asking. But why are they asking you? Why aren't they doing it themselves.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:46:47
I don't know that much!

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:49:30
thinking critically...

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:50:29
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist_prin t.html

I need to look at this. If it's a check list for evaluating web-based information, I don't really approve of them. I think that the evaluation has to depend on the purpose of the information.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:51:37
anyone else use google reader?

It's actually my aggregator of choice.

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:51:45
in class the other day, a kid noticed that some information in the textbook contradicted information on a website (history), and the website seemed more authoritative -- an interesting teachable moment, but I'm not sure which way! :)

Interesting situation. What made the web site look more authoritative?

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:54:35
google reader... looks great! never saw that google app before

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:55:08
google reader=RSS?

Ron () • 2009-05-01 12:55:54
I like Google Reader because it's so easy to link RSS feeds to it.

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:56:31
I agree

Ron () • 2009-05-01 12:56:32
I like Google Reader because it's so easy to add RSS links

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:56:53
You can use it offline now - you can have it d/l last 2000 links and let you peruse them offline

Phil (CA) • 2009-05-01 12:57:16
How do you get Google Reader?

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:57:36
Just need a google account (like a gmail account)

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:57:45
then you can set up the reader

Harry (ON) • 2009-05-01 12:58:08
There also is a RSS link in Google Reader so one can use another RSS reader to collect your feeds from Google Reader

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 12:58:52
I have been experimenting with yahoo pipes (pipes.yahoo.com) - and combining the two seems to be very powerful

"Pipes" is a very cool concept. I haven't been able to devote the time to it yet.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:00:50
You can rss search feeds in many things (twitter, google blog search)

j (on) • 2009-05-01 13:01:00
where is the aggregator?

Phil (CA) • 2009-05-01 13:01:31
Train the information to find us. Brilliant!

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:02:28
looks like pageflakes.com

They are very similar. I like Netvibes better, because it's what I started out using.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:04:36
Can you publish netvibes so that others can follow?

I believe that you can't but I havn't tried it before. When I want to publish feeds, I use a Wiki. That way you can wrap text or content/context around the feed. Works very well with PMWiki (what I use for my online handouts) and Wikispaces.

j (on) • 2009-05-01 13:06:51
where is the aggregator?

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:08:09
Which aggregator are you looking for j?

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:09:29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feed_aggregat ors

Phil (CA) • 2009-05-01 13:11:39
How long before each kid has a laptop?

It's a good question -- and I think you're right. It is a matter of "when" not "if."

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:13:20
good labeling is powerful - bad labeling makes me pull my hair out (what's left of it anyway)

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:13:26
labeling = tagging

Kristan (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:13:54
Do we have access to flickr at our schools or is it blocked?

Kate Webber (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:15:23
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518405,00.html

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:16:18
@kate I read that this morning - read some responses that basically refuted what was written

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:18:56
The "think tank" assumed that technology will stay static over the coming two years

Interesting notion. What's unusual about Netbooks, is that they are a couple of steps backward for the technology.

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:22:42
...import the data into tinkerplots and play away with earthquake data

Oh My! Looks like candy to me.

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:25:11
cool beans indeed...

Phil (CA) • 2009-05-01 13:36:19
What are fakewolverine...

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 13:37:33
spoilers to the movie "Wolverine" that are fake

kate (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:38:15
...http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Fake-Wolverine-P oster-7992.html

Susan Watt (HI) • 2009-05-01 13:48:04
can you publish with lulu in canada?

Hmmm! Good question. Amazon also has a self-publishing service, and there are others.

Susan Watt (HI) • 2009-05-01 13:50:32
found the answer - Lulu is available in 7 languages and 3 currencies. You can change your language and currency on the bottom of most pages. In addition Lulu ships to most locations.

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:52:18
very interesting... no need to pay any money up front or make any committment to buy/sell any # of books on lulu, just upload and see if it sells

Rick Budding (CA) • 2009-05-01 13:52:41
lulu.com isbased in Hamilton

kate (ON) • 2009-05-01 13:56:59
so there is no upfront costs?

I payed $99 USD up front to have my books appear on some multiple listings service that made it available through Amazon and Borders. The $99 also provided an ISBN number.

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 14:00:18
nope, from what I see, they take 20% commission publishing costs (from http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=f9f914fb -ab28-4595-bbe1-b20697e41967

kwatt (ON) • 2009-05-01 14:00:56
that is, 20% commission as well as publishing costs

kate (ON) • 2009-05-01 14:04:39
Thanks David!!!

Kim (CN) • 2009-05-01 14:05:12
yes, thank you....interesting and scary all at the same time!

Brian Smith (CN) • 2009-05-01 14:05:44
Ditto...