I decided that I would do a little exploration on the web for other forms of instructional videos because of YouTube being blocked by the district. The district already subscribes to UnitedStreaming, and I have spread the good word of that website amongst my staff. I overhear someone in the last session talk about teachertube and figured that there are lots more out there. Here are a few that I found so far.
www.merlot.org
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
The website has a large collection of learning materials made by colleagues from around the world. Membership is free, but you do not have to register to use the website. Most of the video clips were very low tech, but I thought gave a great lesson. I did a search for plagiarism and came away with several ideas and resources to draw on. There were a couple that would involve a fee, but each site is reviewed and the reviewer does disclose this information right up front. Way to many free tools to bother with that.
www.pbs.org
I found this website a little harder to navigate, but does contain some great teaching tools all based on the Standards. I felt that it mainly pushed its products that are for sale. However you can download free Marc Records for PBS Videos that you record off the air. I also liked the link to copyright and fairuse policies for PBS videos.
www.learner.org
Annenberg Media is a distribution of video programs/print materials that are broad casted over the Annenberg Channel, the learner.org website or by purchasing videocassettes, DVD's, or printed media. It was necessary to register, but painless. I really liked the videos. I did a search of civil war material and there were loads of videos.
I know that there are more out there, and hope that someone else in our group also decides to do this activity and share their findings online.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Updating Media Center home page
Today I had success in uploading photographs on to the Henry Media Home page. I invite you to take a look at our celebration that the media center held on February 14th. Not only did we celebrate I Love To Read Month, but the finial completion of the last item in the construction process for the new Media center. I have had various amounts of success with uploading pictures. I finally figured out that I have to be careful to watch the way that I save the photo's on the desktop.
I am please to begin to hear more teachers caution students on plagiarism, my comments, and those of my fellow teachers are beginning to get through to the students. Before we would hear comments, "it doesn't matter," "who's going to know," etc. With more staff using TURNIT IN students are beginning to recognize the importance. Now if we can just reach our CFL students. Many of the students in this program see nothing wrong with copy, paste, or just printing the article without citing sources. This can only be addressed by the teachers accepting this in the assignment. But I won't give up.
I am please to begin to hear more teachers caution students on plagiarism, my comments, and those of my fellow teachers are beginning to get through to the students. Before we would hear comments, "it doesn't matter," "who's going to know," etc. With more staff using TURNIT IN students are beginning to recognize the importance. Now if we can just reach our CFL students. Many of the students in this program see nothing wrong with copy, paste, or just printing the article without citing sources. This can only be addressed by the teachers accepting this in the assignment. But I won't give up.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Activity 13 Subscription Databases
In class on Wed We had the opportunity to explore four different subscription databases. Each one could have easily devoted the whole two hours for exploration. I know we barely touched the surface, and I look forward over the next few weeks to using my intern time to become more familiar with the offerings of each. I am not sure how much I will use the web page we created under EBSCO but it does allow me to present additional resources to my students. I really liked ProQuest, this is a database I haven't properly made use of in the past even though our district had this link available. We tried to set up an RSS feed to my reader account, but no luck so instead we set up an email alert. So far no new messages to report. I also set up an account on NetLibrary.com and WorldCat. I want to further explore NetLibrary as this is a new database for me. At this time I do not see me using WorldCat with students.
Our instructors were great. I found them to be very helpful and my only complaint is that we tried to cover way to much in the two hours. No fault of theirs, just a time restraint. They were very knowledgeable.
My intern started last week. She has been a great help in working on switching our SSR books from the textbook view on Destiny to the library view. This will give us a better handle on titles available in both the media center and SSR section. We are looking forward to being able to view statistics to back our claim that there is an increase in the use of the media center for pleasure reading. The statistic portion of Destiny will also show us the top 10 titles which will give us an indication of the type of book that is currently popular. It will take us several weeks to switch over all the books, as we are pulling slowly so that there are plenty of choices always on hand. We are also on the look out for locating how many books have grown legs and trained themselves to walk out the door. Sandy is also helping students who come in with questions. Hopefully we can provide her with an experience that will benefit her in her coursework. I have asked her to let me know if there is anything she needs to have experience in that is required in the class. The students seem to really like her, and that is half the battle on the high school level. She treats them like the young adults that they are, and not children.
I am glad I was finally able to log on to my blog today. Last week I tried and all I received was a blank page after typing in my user name and password. Was very frustrating.
Our instructors were great. I found them to be very helpful and my only complaint is that we tried to cover way to much in the two hours. No fault of theirs, just a time restraint. They were very knowledgeable.
My intern started last week. She has been a great help in working on switching our SSR books from the textbook view on Destiny to the library view. This will give us a better handle on titles available in both the media center and SSR section. We are looking forward to being able to view statistics to back our claim that there is an increase in the use of the media center for pleasure reading. The statistic portion of Destiny will also show us the top 10 titles which will give us an indication of the type of book that is currently popular. It will take us several weeks to switch over all the books, as we are pulling slowly so that there are plenty of choices always on hand. We are also on the look out for locating how many books have grown legs and trained themselves to walk out the door. Sandy is also helping students who come in with questions. Hopefully we can provide her with an experience that will benefit her in her coursework. I have asked her to let me know if there is anything she needs to have experience in that is required in the class. The students seem to really like her, and that is half the battle on the high school level. She treats them like the young adults that they are, and not children.
I am glad I was finally able to log on to my blog today. Last week I tried and all I received was a blank page after typing in my user name and password. Was very frustrating.
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