Blooms Taxonomy and Web 2.0

In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed a pyramid construction to analyze the essence of learning. He stated learning could be compartmentalized into 7 subordinate components the higher of which could not be reached with out the complete mastery the lower. The "new" pyramid reads this way.
Remembering - can the student recall the information?
Understanding - can the student explain the ideas or concepts?
Applying - can the student use the information in a new way?
Analyzing - can the student distinguish between parts?
Evaluating - can the student justify a stand or position?
Creating - can the student create a new product or point of view?

The following illustration connects Web 2.0 and Blooms Taxonomy.

Polling

Earlier in this course we covered SRS (Student Response Systems) aka "clickers". I also mentioned students had the ability to use cell phones to text. While attending a few conferences this month a few of the presenters used Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com it, collects data while interacting with your audience. Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. Its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

I added a link to my wiki with more information PD wiki. Notice, in addition to being able to use a cell phone you can also put the polling and results widget in a wiki or blog. Now, if I could only text faster!

VoiceThread - New features

Voicethread has a number of new features and updates this month. See notes below from VoiceThread...

Put VoiceThread In Your Pocket
Take your VoiceThread and put it into iTunes or your pocket for on-the-go viewing and presenting. Whenever you export, you now have the choice to either download a full sized high resolution archival movie version or one that has been formatted to go directly onto your iPod or iPhone, or both. :)
Clone Your Threads
We've had a lot of requests for the ability to make a copy of an existing VoiceThread so that it can be reused for a fresh new audience or just to make a backup copy. Beginning today, you have that ability right on your MyVoice page (from the gear menu). Clicking 'Make a Copy' opens up a menu for you to title, describe, and choose the comments you'd like to include in the new version. Now you can spend the time and energy creating the highest quality VoiceThreads to be used again and again, and again.
Support For More File Formats
We now fully support Microsoft Office 2007 file formats when uploading into your VoiceThreads. Microsoft Photo Story 3 video support coming soon.
Security Update
Beginning January 1, 2009 we will no longer allow multiple simultaneous logins to the same account. While this may have been a convenient feature it was also a potential security risk. After January 1, 2009 whenever you log in to VoiceThread on a new computer, we will automatically log you out of any computers that you were previously logged into.
We've made quite a few interface tweaks as well, all in an effort to make VoiceThread and its features easier to use and understand. We appreciate all the feedback we've received, it definitely helps direct our development as we look to further improve VoiceThread. So thank you and keep it coming! We've got more on the way (VoiceThread.com).

What are you learning this week?

2008 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference
I attended and presented at the Christa McAuliffe Conference this week Moving Beyond the Basics: Using Web 2.0 Tools in Your Blog or Wiki. I was happy to see so many MESPA students in the session! If you missed the conference here is David Warlick's Keynote captured using UStream

Streaming .TV shows by Ustream
A few items I plan on investigating.
- Webcammax http://www.webcammax.com/ with Skype for mac users try CamTwist

Landmarks for Schools: Words of Humankind - organizes historical documents in the public domain, kids can access this for FREEhttp://landmark-project.com/page.php?stamp=&pn=3&psn=&cat=17

If you like Wordle check out TagCloud

I attended a few sessions on electronic portfolio solutions
Richer Picture® - A digital portfolio of student achievement

I am continuing to research netbooks and the 2go PC Netbooks by CTL.
"2go" branding for its next-gen Classmate PC, but it's not hard to spot the difference: it's a convertible tablet. Learn more here

If you attended the conference and have session reviews please post a comment here, along with the tools new tools you have used this week.

I just tested out a new widget from Amazon, focusing on netbooks/laptop products in a Carousel widget on the sidebar.

Googlespreadsheet demo using Jing to caputre the lesson

Here is unique way to use googlespreadsheets and live data
Click here http://screencast.com/t/i3ppLUliQ to view in a larger window outside the blog


Try a jing recording and explore some of the google lookup functions!
Google Presentations, docs and spreadsheets create a url and embedded code that can be dropped into a blog, wiki (or SharePoint) for instruction.

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net

Using Jing

Using Jing download