Collaborative notes

Alan November PD

Thursday, 7th & Friday, 8th January, 2009

Notes taken by:

Janine Larsen
Dan Palomares
Karen Serritslev

Websites visited:

To see if how many links are "connected" to a website one can type link: link:www.martinlutherking.org
add host:edu to see how many educational institutions are linked to the site.
afterwards one can add link:stormfront to the end (link:www.martinlutherking.orghost:edulink:stormfront) to see who is linked to both of these sites.
"fitness training" site:sch.uk this will bring up websites that are produced by schools in the UK.
"fitness training" url:k12 this will bring up websites that are produced by schools in the USA
site:ac.uk (British higher education)
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php to find old or removed websites.
www.easywhois.com - Enables one to see who published a web page.
TED.org -great inspirational website where there are videos of experts talking about issues, discoveries, or other subject matter
Use www.altavista.com to cross-reference website information.
http://novemberlearning.com/ Alan's site
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ Root Zone Database -Will give the suffixes (extentions) that show where pages are published.
www.clusty.com search engine with "clustered" results
www.yolink.com free application that allows you to search within a search using a split screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKBjt5z_EcY&feature=related MIT 6th Sense Technology
http://technorati.com/ search engine that only searches for blogs
http://www.mathtrain.tv/ student generated math lessons
www.Jingproject.com website where you can download the tutorial maker that the kids at mathtrain.tv
http://tinyurl.com will shorten the URL for you
www.google.com/cse - create your own search engine
bobsprankle.com/podcasts/0506/rm208vodcast.mov
http://epgy.stanford.edu Education Program for Gifted Youth
www.ning.com Create your own social network
pypthreads.ning.com Worldwide PYP Teachers social network
cistlc.ning.com CIS Teacher Learning Community social network
www.kiva.org Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
www.bloglines.com A free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds
http://www.google.com/reader RSS Feed Reader

What is important for students to know:

That the first search result from a search engine is not the best but instead the site that either: (1) has the search phrase in the address or (2) has the largest number of other websites linking to it.
Find a bogus website about your subject, and have the kids answer questions from/about the website. (fx. Sir Francis Drake on www.allaboutexplorers.com) It's better that you manipulate them before they are manipulated in their own research.
Narrow their search with "site:" or "url:"
Facebook owns any content you upload and collects information from anything you or your contacts post.
clusty.com categorizes search results.
With the internet, you can find primary sources (blog, forum, etc.) to talk to people who have first hand information. Search, for example, on blog search engine Technorati.
Custom design a search engine in Google, containing only sites added by the teachers.

What not to do:

Getting you to stop something is more difficult than getting you to, for example, set up a SmartBoard in your classroom.