If you have a Model U.N. group at your school, here's a screen shot of the iGoogle tab I created as an example.
Of course, students could create similar tabs for each of their classes, not just MUN. Click on the image to view if full-sized.
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Showing posts with label iGoogle. Show all posts
Monday, June 28, 2010
Organizing students (and your!) online life
This is one of those Duh! moments. I have given workshops at school on using iGoogle to create personal learning spaces. While trying to organize my Model UN students as they researched, it never occurred to me to show them how to use iGoogle to create an up-to-the-minute organizational space for their research and resolution writing. It should have been a no-brainer. And something else to fall into the "next year" category.
If you have a Model U.N. group at your school, here's a screen shot of the iGoogle tab I created as an example.
Of course, students could create similar tabs for each of their classes, not just MUN. Click on the image to view if full-sized.
If you have a Model U.N. group at your school, here's a screen shot of the iGoogle tab I created as an example.
Of course, students could create similar tabs for each of their classes, not just MUN. Click on the image to view if full-sized.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Re-Thinking Libraries: Are We Obsolete?
Christos, our History Department Chair (I blog about him a lot, don't I?) taught a research class over the summer. He wandered into the library one day, griping about how he taught the students all these skills, they nodded in agreement, then proceeded to jump onto Google. I laughed, commenting "Welcome to my world!"
But it did get me thinking: I spent hours last year re-designing the school library site, creating pathfinders and newsletters and all sorts of nifty little information tools.
To what purpose? The older students are, the more they ignore the pathfinders and just start Googling. They want to be in control, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I found two books on the LMC Source that look promising: David Loertscher's The New Learning Commons and In-Command (both are co-authored). The first is a comprehensive re-thinking of libraries as a combination of the computer center and library, with both a virtual and a physical learning environment. Sounds interesting, though I'm not really sure how that' s different from what we do now.
I'm very interested in the In Command book, which has students create their own learning environments with iGoogle. They divide their home page into three sections: Personal Space with assignments, calendars, etc; Group Space for collaborative projects/learning, and Outer Space, with controlled access to the internet at large. Intriguing idea. I'll write more once I've read the book!
But it did get me thinking: I spent hours last year re-designing the school library site, creating pathfinders and newsletters and all sorts of nifty little information tools.
To what purpose? The older students are, the more they ignore the pathfinders and just start Googling. They want to be in control, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I found two books on the LMC Source that look promising: David Loertscher's The New Learning Commons and In-Command (both are co-authored). The first is a comprehensive re-thinking of libraries as a combination of the computer center and library, with both a virtual and a physical learning environment. Sounds interesting, though I'm not really sure how that' s different from what we do now.
I'm very interested in the In Command book, which has students create their own learning environments with iGoogle. They divide their home page into three sections: Personal Space with assignments, calendars, etc; Group Space for collaborative projects/learning, and Outer Space, with controlled access to the internet at large. Intriguing idea. I'll write more once I've read the book!
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