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  • Cultural Anthropologist Mimi Ito on Connected Learning, Children, and Digital Media

    Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and expert in the field of digital media and learning, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media and communications. She recently completed the Digital Youth Project, a landmark study supported by the MacArthur Foundation of the ways youth use new media. In September 2010, she was appointed as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at UC Irvine.Ito emphasizes the need to put aside prejudices against new media in order to harness their potential as learning tools: "I think there's a more general perception in the culture around new media [...] that it is inherently a space that is hostile to learning. And that's a perception that I think we really need to work against." (4:46) "We know that the learning outside of school matters tremendously for the learning in school. [...] The question is: how can we be more active about linking those two together?" she adds. (5:33)Mimi Ito is a Professor in Residence at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and serves as Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub in the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. To find out more about the Connected Learning focus of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, please visit http://connectedlearning.tv/what-is-connected-learning.

  • Folioz

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    Folioz is a digital personal learning portfolio aka ePortfolio. It is the perfect personal learning environment mixed with social networking, enabling students to collect, reflect on and share their achievements and development online in a space they control.

    Folioz is a SSHRC funded research platform and is powered by Mahara. Mahara is provided freely as open source software (under the GNU General Public License).
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    What makes Folioz different from other ePortfolio systems is that you control which items and what information (Artefacts) within your portfolio other users see.

    In order to facilitate this access control, all Artefacts you wish to show to other users need to be bundled up and placed into one area. Within Folioz this compilation of selected Artefacts is called a View.

    You can have as many Views as you like, each with a different collection of Artefacts, and intended purpose and audience. Your audience, or the people you wish to give access to your View, can be added as individuals or as a member of a Group or Community.

    ePortfolio owners create Views using a 4 step process and Views have the following features:

    • ePortfolio owners can receive public or private feedback on their View and Artefacts within that View.
    • Users accessing a View can report any objectionable material directly to the Site Administrator.
    • Users can add Views and Artefacts within a View to their Watchlist and receive automated notifications of any changes or updates.
    • ePortfolio owners can Submit a View for Assessment by a tutor or teacher allowing for a snapshot of the View and associated Artefacts on a certain date.

    Other Features of Folioz:

    File Repository

    Folioz includes a file repository which allows users to:

    • Create folder and sub folders structures
    • Upload multiple files quickly and efficiently
    • Give each file a Name and Description
    • Manage their file allocation Quota
    • When uploading a file users must agree to a configurable Copyright disclaimer.
    • Can extract .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 from within the files area

     

    Log-in to Folioz with your ClassCloud Key

     

  • Postz

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    Postz is a student and teacher blogging site built with WordPress. Students can maintain their own personal blog, club sites, portfoilios or a class can collaborate together. Blogs can be as public or private as required.

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  • 12 Golden Principles for Effectively Using Learning Technologies | teachonline.ca
    Clear objectives, good structuring of learning materials, relevance to learners' needs, etc., apply to the use of any technology for teaching, and if these principles are ignored, then the teaching will fail, even if the unique characteristics of the medium are stylishly exploited.
  • Carl Sagan Explains Evolution in an 8-Minute Animation
    This concise lesson concerns itself not just with how we human beings came about, but how everything else came about as well. That wide-angle view of reality won a great deal of acclaim for Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the 1980 television series on which the segment originally appeared.
  • 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
    The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) "7 Things You Should Know About..." Series provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies. Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, how it works, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning.
  • Streamz
    A micro-blogging social network (like twitter) for k12 teachers and students.
  • Coderz
    The k12 coding community from ClassCloud Canada.

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  • PHP Tutorial for Beginners - Full Course
    Learn the fundamentals of PHP and object-oriented programming in this free 7-hour PHP tutorial. Jeremy McPeak will help you learn PHP and use it to write web apps. PHP is one of the most used languages on the web. The vast majority of websites you visit are built with PHP on the back-end, and learning PHP is a requirement for writing plugins or themes for a CMS like WordPress. PHP is fast, but even better, it's easy to learn and easy to use for writing web applications. In this detailed PHP tutorial, Envato Tuts+ instructor Jeremy McPeak will teach you the fundamentals of PHP programming. You'll start with the basics, learning how PHP works and writing simple PHP loops and functions. Then you'll build up to coding classes for simple object-oriented programming (OOP). Along the way, you'll learn all the most important skills for writing apps for the web: you'll get a chance to practice responding to GET and POST requests, parsing JSON, authenticating users, and using a MySQL database. Important Links: Source files on GitHub https://github.com/tutsplus/php-funda...
  • Creating a skin with an image in Folioz
    Click the link below to access the code line to add transparency: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wL9AZ1DpcT03swyV80CayKUVH-r1s7n59UnjTLdNVgc/edit?usp=sharing
  • What is Mastodon
    Masodon is the software that powers the Streamz K12 social network site.