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Research

castroslt — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:29:08 CST

Research Orientation ABC's of HyperMedia

Class Lesson Example: Technology, ILT, Computers

Student Practice Research Topics:

Oceans, Oceanography, Jack Cousteau
Africa, Animals, Jane Goodall
Arctic, Roald Amundsen Glaciers

Brainstorm with your group/partner(s) two facts that you know about your topic.

I know this about this topic:

Why I want to know this about the topic:

List two questions that you want to know the answer to about your topic. Put your information on a word document on the computer.
Go to Lion.dpsk12.org and locate at least two two books that could be used for informational purposes on you topic. List the Author. Title. City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Copyright date.
Example:

CitingTaylor, David and James Williams. The Ultimate Dog Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Internet Strategies

Google	Collaborative filtering, huge database. Excellent.	Ask	Natural language search engine.
Alltheweb	Large database, good results.	Web Wombat	Search engine, vertical engines, directory.
		KartOO	Visual search tool.
Alta Vista	Web, Usenet. Speedy. Large database.	MSN Search	Search engine from Microsoft.
HotBot	Web, Usenet. Directory. Large database.		.
Go Network	Web, Usenet, news, maps, directory, yellow pages, company profiles.	Zapmeta	Metasearch tool. Site previews.
Excite	Search and directory, sports, news, weather, reviews.	Turbo10	Deep Web metasearch tool.
Lycos	Search and pictures, sound, news, software, rated sites.	Dogpile	Performs metasearching on web, Usenet, FTP.
Starting Point	Web search and directory.
		Clusty	Clustering metasearch tool.
SearchEdu.com	Search engine for university sites.	Zuula	Results from several engines, tabbed format.

D i r e c t o r i e s

Yahoo	Most popular directory, image searches.	LookSmart	Nicely set up directory from Reader's Digest.
Google Directory	Google rankings applied to Open Directory. Very Good.
		Open Directory	Directory created by volunteer editors.
about.com	Directory of expert guides, including Web searching.	1UpInfo	Excellent, easy to use directory.
Librarian's Index	Very nice directory, dozens of categories
Search.com	Directory plus links to search engines.
		Education Index	Directory by educational subject, with annotated entries.
Webbrain	Really cool graphic directory with good reference links.	UniXL	Directory of education related sites.
100Hot.com	100 most popular web sites in many categories, including newspapers.	PlanetSearch	Engine with links to companies and government pages.

R e f e r e n c e

Britannica	Encyclopedia Britannica & Internet Guide.	Bible Gateway	Search or read several English and other versions of the Bible.
Encyclopedia.Com	17,000 short articles (Concise Columbia Encyclopedia).	InfoPlease.com	Almanacs, Encyclopedia, Dictionary.
Encarta Online	Concise version of Microsoft's Encarta.	Libraryspot.com	Reference and Library site.
AllRefer	Database of articles and reference materials.
Free Internet Encyclopedia	Another encyclopedia.
Dictionary.net	Excellent dictionary, multiple sources.	Bartleby	More reference works. Good.
Refdesk.com	Links to facts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, news, much more.	whatis?com	Dictionary of Computer Terms.
WWW Virtual Library	A global encyclopedia.	Dictionary.com & M-W.com	Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Onelook Dictionaries	Several hundred searchable dictionaries.	AcronymFinder	The meanings of acronyms.
Infomine	Extensive index of scholarly Internet resources.	Essential Links	Wonderful list of specific links.
AllWords	Find a word if you know only part of it.	SciQuest	Science sites.
English Dictionary	Another dictionary.	The WayBack Machine	Search archived Web content.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	Articles on philosophical topics.	Wikipedia	Community written encyclopedia.
The Free Dictionary	Dictionary and resources.

D a t a b a s e s
The Invisible Web: Databases not accessible to ordinary search engines.



		Findarticles.com	Search hundreds of journals.
Complete Planet	Hundreds of databases by category.	Magportal	Full text magazine articles.
All Academic	Journals & other free academic content.
		Online Books Page	Full text of more than 18,000 books.

G r a p h i c s

Ditto.Com	Search engine for photographs and graphics.	Internet Archive	Audio and film archive.
Google Images	Image search from Google.	Marine Art	Marine Art Information Center. Paintings, photographs, and more.
ArtFind	Art, photography, maps, and more.	Art.Com	More than 100,000 art images.
Foto Search Photos	Stock image photography.	Barewalls.com	Thousands of art images.
		The Louvre	Many excellent art works.
		National Gallery	The U. S. National Gallery of Art.
World Wide Arts	Links to all the arts, including museums.	PCL Maps	Links to hundreds of online maps from library at U Texas.
National Gallery	National Gallery of London.	Artcyclopedia	Encyclopedia of art and artworks.

S p e c i a l t y

Google Groups	Search discussion groups.	HealthAtoZ	Directory and search for health and medicine.
Tile.Net	Lists of mailing lists, newsgroups, ftp sites.
Topica	Directory of mailing lists, by category or search.
InfoSpace	Directory of people, business, government, cities, more.	AskMeHelpDesk	Ask real people questions.
AnyWho	Directories by AT&T of people, businesses, toll-free, more.	1UpHealth	Reference, news, diagnosis and other health info.
Superpages.com	Find businesses, get maps and directions.	FindLaw	Legal resources.
		AllPages.com	Yellow pages from everywhere.
Healthopedia	Info on health, disease, nutrition, medicines.	Da+	White & yellow pages, reverse phone lookup.

P e r i o d i c a l s

Onlinenewspapers.com	Links to 100,000 newspapers worldwide.	BUBL Information Service	Abstracts and some full text of 200+ journals.
Newslink	Links to all media.
		Columbia Journalism Review	Keeps an eye on the news media.
New York Times	News	Washington Post	News and archives.

G o v e r n m e n t

		Thomas	Legislative information.
Fedworld	Gateway to many federal government sites.	U. S. Census	The U. S. Census Bureau.
FirstGov	Government info gateway.	Fedstats	Gateway to statistics from many government agencies.
Govt Info Xchange	Links and search for U.S. federal, state, & local government. Foreign too.	Consumer Information Center	Hundreds of consumer information items.
		American Memory	Library of Congress American Memory.
Govspot.com	Lots of government links.

B o o k s

Amazon.com	Includes reviews of many titles.	Powell's Books	Used, new, hard-to-find, and out of print books.
Barnes & Noble	Lots of books.
Christianbook.com	Lots of Christian books.	Bookwire	All kinds of book information.
Pricescan	Search for the best price from many bookstores at once.	Bookspot.com	Book information, reviews, sites with reviews.
Borders	Books, bargain books (remainders).
Melvyl	The University of California Library catalog.	Overstock.com	Books and other items.
Chambal	Book shopping bot. Compare prices.	Books Price	Shopping bot to compare prices.

M e d i a

IMDb	Internet Movie Database with reviews.

N e w s

FOX	General News.
News Index	News source, search engine, and gateway to news sites.


News.com	Emphasis on technical and computer news.
News Watch	Media watchdog organization.
ABYZ News Links	Links to 15,000 newspapers, TV stations, other news sources.

MSNBC	Cable channel news site.

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Blogs & Wiki information

castroslt — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:10:20 CDT

A "wiki" is a type of computer software that allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, power community websites, and are increasingly being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective knowledge management. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
The purpose of this wiki is to provide students, parents, and Castro/Denver staff a place to continue to dialogue about student online learning.All Denver/Castro staff, parents and students are invited to participate.To get started, simply click on the link below that applies to you. Thank you for continuing the conversation.
Aggregators
Google Reader http://reader.google.com
Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
Technorati http://technorati.com/.
Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com

Blogs:
Infinite Thinking Machine - http://www.infinitethinking.org/
Ewan McIntosh's Edu.blogs.com http://edu.blogs.com/
Thought Lines on teaching reading and writing http://throughlines.blogspot.com/2007/03/finished-what-is-what-this-morning-and.html
Utech tips - 21st century classroom http://www.utechtips.com/?p=408
and http://www.utechtips.com/?cat=29
the Fisch Bowl - Local Arahapoe HS teacher http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
Web 2.0 teach podcasts and Powerpoint mashup http://web20teach.blogspot.com/

Podcasts:
KidCast: Learning and Teaching with Podcasting Interview with Bernie Dodge creator of Webquestshttp://www.intelligenic.com/blog/?p=103
O'Reily's take on Web 2.0 in education http://audio.edtechlive.com/OReilly.mp3
K12 Open source software with David Thornburg http://educationbridges.net/k12opensource/wp-content/uploads/k12opensource1.mp3
Grammar Girl, great short grammar lessons http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx

Vidcasts:

TED (technology, education and design) Incredible visual statistics http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92
Teaching Hacks http://www.teachinghacks.com/
Social Innovation Conversations http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/rss.html- subscrib
Webnation web newshttp://img670.libsyn.com/img670/24b8ed4656a1ef0da8e85cba5bb0e48c/46ae277b/8317/3843/june2107-webnation.m4v

Information

castroslt — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:14:14 CDT

INFORMATION SHARING LINKS

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

Digg.com http://digg.com

Clipmarks http://clipmarks.com/**

Voicethread http://voicethread.com

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net

PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/edu.html

Wiki spaces http://wikispaces.com/

StumbleUpon** http://www.stumbleupon.com

Geospatial Literacy

castroslt — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:10:21 CDT

Castro concerns and discussions

castroslt — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:56:08 CDT

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Castro TIE 2008

castroslt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:19:57 CDT

Why and What
This is my seventeenth year attending TIE and every year I have acquired skills which have helped me facilitate, collaboration and keep pace with 21st century skills needed within the Denver Public School system. I would like to continue to be a supportive, accountable, nurturing creative person through technology by my attendance at TIE. My focus for next year will be in the areas of higher order thinking and web 2.0 skills for the staff and students at Castro Elementary.

Topic Title “Immigration Then and Now”

Students will learn about famous immigrants in history. They will compare/contrast with today’s issue of immigration with the past using primary and secondary sources from the American Memory and Colorado Heritage Collections, Library of Congress, other sources and analyze data to complete the project. The students will practice and learn how to develop questions about their topic and use that knowledge to product a multimedia presentation using one of the following (digital story, pod casting, PowerPoint, real e-books) using differentiations methods for technology. The students will use an exhibit illustrating their opinion pro or con about their topic. The students during the project will use an online, wikis ,email and blog to show, communicate and use as an evaluation tool for their work. This project supports Denver Public Schools unit 5 research and report writing and the following reading & writing standards as well as the ILT standards 1 & 2.

TIE sessions that support project:

Digital Storytelling with Library of Congress
Integrating wiki and blogs into your classroom
Building Learning communities Projects

Standard 1 & 2
• Write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
• Determine author’s purpose.
Standards: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
1.a Compare and contrast different texts with similar themes or ideas
Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details
in fiction and non fiction
2.a Write in a variety of modes such as narrative, expository or
descriptive for various audiences and purposes
2.b Organize writing using a logical arrangement of ideas
2.g. Develop ideas and content with relevant details, supporting
examples and/or reasons

Big Ideas
• Communicate ideas and information using clear and precise descriptive language.
• Use mentor texts to craft engaging leads and conclusions.

Responsibilities:Mr. McFarland will be responsible for teaching Technologies needed to complete assignment/topic as well as the following:
Mrs Schwartz 5th grade teacher will help me with in-class assignments.
• Research for biographies
• Photo Story
• Pod casting
• PowerPoint
• Real E-Books

Project will be based off of Mr. McFarland’s unit plan developed and submitted to the Collaborative Digitization Program. Which was funded by the Colorado State Library through a Federal Library services and Technology Act grant. Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection.

Go to : http://www.bcr.org/cdp/teachertb/lessons/lesson64/index.html
And Down load the lesson Plan

Student Collaboration forWeb Page Project
Aurora Bernal
Why and What:
Students will be taught how to submit their work on the Castro Web Page. They will have opportunities on a regular basis to submit their work and also be able to view their work on the Castro Web Page.

Group Project

castroslt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:10:45 CST

School Leadership Team

Each school will have a School Leadership Team (SLT) consisting of a minimum of 3 teacher representatives which should represent a cross section of the faculty including grade levels, specials, department chairs and special service providers. These (SLT) members are elected by a majority of the faculty voting by secret ballot. The Association Representative or designee as well as an additional teacher appointed by the Principal and the Principal shall also be part of the (SLT). The SLT shall have responsibilities which include: a. Review data and collaborate with the principal in the development of the School Improvement Plans; b. Review and collaborate with the principal on the design of and schedule for the professional development plan; c. Review and collaborate with the principal on the budget for the expenditure of instructional materials; d. Review and collaborate with the principal on the implementation of the District’s instructional program as it specifically applies to classrooms & grades at the school; e. Collaborate with the principal to identify strategies for increasing enrollment at the school; f. Collaborate with the principal to develop communication strategies for regularly reporting student progress to parents; g. Collaborate with the principal to implement best instructional practices. h. Perform additional duties as outlined in Article 8. Article 8 – Professional Standards

School Leadership Team. Each school will have a School Leadership Team as described in 5-4. The SLT will be responsible for making decisions as noted in Article 8. Decisions in specified areas, except for lunch periods and secondary teaching loads, will be made by reaching mutual agreement. If the Principal and the SLT cannot reach agreement by consensus, including the composition of the Committee, the matter shall be referred to the Instructional Superintendent. The Instructional Superintendent shall consult with the Association prior to making a decision. Decisions may be made by the SLT to alter the length of the lunch period (Article 8-2) or Secondary Teaching Load (Article 8-5-1) only after applying the decision-making standards which will be supplied for this purpose, conducting a confidential vote of the majority of the faculty, and reflecting this process on a form which will be supplied for this purpose. Changes will not be made to the length of the lunch period or secondary teaching load without a positive majority confidential vote of the faculty. Information about such changes will be sent to the Instructional Issues Council for tracking purposes.

First Meeting 1/22/08
I'll be sure to do better note taking at our next meeting, but below is a summary of what we discussed:

--School Improvement Plan
(1) Living document; can be modified at any time
(2) Sets priorities and goals for the school
(3) Professional development flows from the goals set forward in the SIP

--Professional Development
(1) How do we make it more meaningful, organic, and relevant to the needs of teachers?
(2) Could we do professional development in a way so that teachers could "sign-up" for what they needed?
(3) Learning walks demonstrate that there are school wide needs for teachers
(4) Lesson Study and Learning Lab might offer a better alternative to traditional sit down, power point-driven PD's.

--Teacher (and student) expectations
(1) We as teachers are bothered by (and at the same time contribute to) low expectations for students ( -- "how many times have you heard someone say, 'he's so low . . .'" or "my kids didn't even know _______")
(2) With failure to meet AYP compounding yearly, what can we do to change our discourse around student achievement in the short-term and long-term?
(3) Sensitivity to cultural relevance -- let's recognize what our kids do well, even if it's not recognized by CSAP

I think that's about where I left -- best, Daniel

The Assignment	Project Schedule	Brainstorming
Drafts	Research	Team Members

Tips for Building Your Wiki:

Rename your home page to describe your project, then lock your home page
Encourage contribution: Write a "task list" for new pages.
Invite all group members to help out! (Click on "Invite others" in the Page Toolbox)
Use person-to-person messages to stay connected and to send updates, reminders, etc.

Need more? Add graphics and flourishes that match your wiki design (they're free from Paint Splatters)

Brainstorming

castroslt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:07:26 CST

Our Wiki Whiteboard

This page is where we can collect ideas from everyone in the group. Click EasyEdit to add text, tables, photos, etc.

Brainstorming Topic #1: Notes/Minutes from 1st meeting

Date: 1/22/08

I'll be sure to do better notetaking at our next meeting, but below is a summary of what we discussed:

--School Improvement Plan
(1) Living document; can be modified at any time
(2) Sets priorities and goals for the school
(3) Professional development flows from the goals set forward in the SIP

--Professional Development
(1) How do we make it more meaningful, organic, and relevant to the needs of teachers?
(2) Could we do professional development in a way so that teachers could "sign-up" for what they needed?
(3) Learning walks demonstrate that there are school wide needs for teachers
(4) Lesson Study and Learning Lab might offer a better alternative to traditional sit down, power point-driven PD's.

--Teacher (and student) expectations
(1) We as teachers are bothered by (and at the same time contribute to) low expectations for students ( -- "how many times have you heard someone say, 'he's so low . . .'" or "my kids didn't even know _______")
(2) With failure to meet AYP compounding yearly, what can we do to change our discourse around student achievement in the short-term and long-term?
(3) Sensitivity to cultural relevance -- let's recognize what our kids do well, even if it's not recognized by CSAP

I think that's about where I left -- best, Daniel

Brainstorming Topic #2:

Date:

See also: Project Schedule | Rough Draft | Research | Team Members

Rough Draft

wetpaint — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:31:45 CST

Our work in progress:

Use this page to add text, tables, photos, and attachments related to your project.

Wiki Tip:
Did you know that you can add attachments to any page? Select "Add an attachment" from the Page Toolbox at right to add PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and more.

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Team Members

wetpaint — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:31:45 CST

*NOTE: If your group is posting names and phone numbers here, please go into your site's "Settings" and make the site PRIVATE so it cannot be viewed except by the invited members of your wiki.

Name	Email	Phone Number	Role
Joe Student	joe@college.edu	555-585-8888

Wiki Tip:
To add more rows to a table, put your cursor in the last row of the table and right-click with your mouse. Select "Add row" from the tool tips menu.

Project Schedule

wetpaint — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:31:45 CST

Project due date: --

Progress tracker:

Milestone:	Date due:	Date completed:
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See also: The Assignment | Research | Rough Draft | Team Members

Wiki Tip:
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Geospatial Literacy

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Castro TIE 2008

Group Project

School Leadership Team

The Assignment

Project Schedule

Brainstorming

Drafts

Research

Team Members

Brainstorming

Our Wiki Whiteboard

Brainstorming Topic #1: Notes/Minutes from 1st meeting

Date: 1/22/08

Brainstorming Topic #2:

Date:

Rough Draft

Our work in progress:

Team Members

Project Schedule

Project due date: --

Progress tracker:

The Assignment

Project description:

Goals:

Deadline: