Did you know

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• Did you know?

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Internet Literacy
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Topics to Cover

• Digital Natives
• A Vision of K-12 Students Today
• Web 2.0 Tools
• Host command
• Link command
• Verifying websites
• Website can not be found

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Digital Natives Vs. Digital Immigrants
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Digital Natives Vs. Digital Immigrants
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• According to Dr. Bruce Berry of Baylor College
  of Medicine remarked todays students think and
  process information fundamentally differently
  than their predecessors. Different kinds of
  experiences lead to different brain structures.
• Thinking patterns have changed.

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• A Vision of a K-12 Student Today

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• Web 2.0 and You

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Blogs

• A weblog is a website where entries are commonly
  displayed in reverse chronological order. The
  short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz,
  this was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb
  "to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to
  post to one's weblog".
• Popular blogging sites/software blogger,
  typepad, wordpress, movable type
• New York Catholic Education Blog

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Wikis

• Wiki is a piece of server software that allows
  users to freely create and edit Web page content
  using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks
  and has a simple text syntax for creating new
  pages and cross links between internal pages.
• www.wikispaces.com
• http//ncea2008internet.wikispaces.com/

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Podcasting

• A podcast is a collection of digital media files
  which is distributed over the Internet, often
  using syndication feeds (RSS), for playback on
  portable media players and personal computers.
  The term podcast, can refer either to the content
  itself or to the method by which it is
  syndicated.
• Driving Questions with Daniel Pink

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Video sharing sites

• Video sharing online has great educational
  potential. Posting lesson summaries in video form
  is extremely easy to do, if you have a web cam.
  You can also post recordings of scientific
  experiments, interviews, or selected clips from
  educational TV programs you might show in class.
  Video, perhaps more than any other medium, has
  the power to engage, enlighten, and fascinate
  your students.
•   www.schooltube.com

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RSS?

• What is RSS?
• How does it work?
• RSS readers (bloglines, pageflakes, google
  reader, etc)
• Why use RSS?
• TIME
• www.pageflakes.com

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HOST Command

• 1. Searching academic institutions in the U.S.
  for specific information
• hostedu american revolution or hostedu
  american revolution
• 2. What about a state specific search?
• Hostedu ny american revolution
• You can only use 1 extension at a time!!
• 3. Global searches
• Hostuk american revolution or hostuk
  american revolution
• 4. Searching a specific country academic sites
• .ac is the extension for higher education outside
  the US.
• hostac.uk shakespeare or hostac.uk
  shakespeare

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Link Command

• Why do you want to find out who is linked to a
  website?
• How do you find out who is linked? In Altavista
  type
• Linkwww.ncea.org
• Ask yourself these questions
• Who is linked to the website?
• What is the purpose of the link?
• What do other sites say about the information on
  the site?

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Authenticating Websites

• How do you determine if the information on a web
  site is real and valid? Some things to look for
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• Names
• Characters ?
• The word USERS
• http//home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
• http//zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
• http//martinlutherking.org
• www.easywhois.com

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This page cannot be displayed

• How can we find it?
• http//pubweb.northwestern.edu/abutz/di/intro.htm
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• www.archive.org
• The Wayback Machine
• http//pubweb.northwestern.edu/abutz/di/intro.htm
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• (This is a great site to check authenticity and
  to see who is linked to this site)

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• What do we do with all of this?

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Resources

• www.csaanys.org
• http//ncea2008internet.wikispaces.com/
• http//nycatholiceducation.blogspot.com/
• www.commoncraft.com plain English explanations
  about Web 2.0 tools
• www.computeruser.com Country codes