Instructional
Technology Meeting
Model
Schools Program Report
Marianne Hart
DATE OF MEETING: 11/16/06
TIME: 3:10 – 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: MS/HS Media Center
No MSP meetings this month, although members will be meeting at the NYSCATE conference in Rochester. A report will follow that conference.
Web
pages of interest:
Think.com is a free service designed to assist schools with the implementation and use of state-of-the-art technology for educational purposes. Think.com uses the power of Oracle’s database technology to host, manage and operate remotely from the United States. The e-mail component of Think.com is built on Oracle Collaboration Suite's e-mail. The Web page component allows students and teachers to share information within the protected Think.com community and to post their own work for other students to read and provide feedback.
Nine exemplary units illustrate how Think.com can be used to meet curricular and technology standards. Mapped to the National Education Technology Standards (NETS) and to the U.S. standards for Language Arts, Social Studies and Science, these units provide useful examples of technology integration.
del.icio.us
is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to
allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your
browser. This has several advantages.
First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.
Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on del.icio.us as private -- only viewable by you -- if you like.)
Third, you can find other people on del.icio.us who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your own collection. Everyone on del.icio.us chooses to save their bookmarks for a reason. You have access to the links that everyone wants to remember. You can see whether two people have chosen to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people to remember -- which may help you find things that are useful for you, too.