Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

Andrew Churches, Curriculum Manager Computer Studies and ICT PD Cluster co-director
at the Kristin School in Albany Auckland New Zealand has taken great care to marry Blooms Taxonomy's key action verbs to digital approaches and tools.

This new take on Bloom's could be very useful for teaching in the 21st century.

Read more about it here: http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

Teaching with Twitter (and introducing 12 Seconds)

Hear how David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, uses Twitter, a messaging service, for his courses here.

See 12 Seconds for a video tool that functions in a similar manner.

Timeline and catalog of Internet Memes

For those of you exploring Internet memes with your students you might find this site useful. It compiles an interactive history of memes going back to 1982 with the emergence of the emoticon.

Other formats included within the site are a list, flipbook, and map, so users can select the view they like best.

Michael Wesch on Media Literacy and Teaching

I've been working my way through this video from Michael Wesch on media literacy and the college classroom. Those of you who've seen his videos on The Machine is Us and Today's College Students will find some familiar material at the beginning, and he goes much further here into how he uses web 2.0 tools for his courses. Very interesting work.

Digital Literature from Penguin Publishing

PenguinUK has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story - designed specially for the internet.

Their We Tell Stories project took six authors and offered them six weeks to create six interactive, online stories. Check out the 21 Steps story...great fun! Hard Times is intriguing, too.

Elit 2.0: A Guide to Literary Works on Social Software

Do you want to teach Web 2.0 technologies but need some exemplary creative texts for students to "read" as examples and/or illustrations of the tool's creative potential?

Check out ELit: A Guide to Literary Works on Social Software

"While students are still developing literacies in new technologies it is important that their adoption involves more than just accepting the software at interface value. What these technologies are and can be has yet to be decided and this set of electronic literary works offers an artistic exploration of their possibilities that will enrich the quest for software literacy."
From: WRT: Writer Response Theory: a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing text arts forms

Flickr and libraries

Thanks to "hot tipper" Fiona for this article on uses for flickr in a variety of library and educational settings.

The UWB/CCC Campus Library has a flickr tour - I hope to do some new photos this summer!

Creating a research repository in del.icio.us

Gray and I, with the help of Leslie, have created an assignment for the interdisciplinary inquiry course in which students use the social bookmarking and online information organization tool del.icio.us to thoughtfully save, categorize, describe, and share information resources.

Through internet research and emerging Library tools, students are creating a research repository online that will be at least 20 resources deep. The "bookmark & share" widget that has been added to UW's WorldCat catalog, for example, enables students to seamlessly post specific research resources and annotate them. After reviewing student work, and compiling their feedback, we will report back on the success of using this free web 2.0 technology to enhance student research.

Embedding Media in Blogs and Other Sites

Apture is a new tool that enables you to embed a variety of media into a blog post or web page.

You can see a demo on this blog from their site.

There would seem to be much potential here for teaching and learning, even while I do wonder if there might also be a tipping point of Too Much Information if used carelessly.

Flickr blog

This companion blog to the photo organization and sharing site Flickr posts selections from the site, provides commentary on changing photo formats and techniques (see the recent post on the death of Polaroid film), and lists events and meet-ups with flickr members.

The UWB/CCC Campus Library has a photoset on Flickr, and I am curious to see how courses and students may use Flickr - it seems like a perfect tool for studio art students, photography students, and as a way to visually track a group project, video, play, etc.

YouTube Hall of Fame.

I am working on a new blog called the YouTube Hall of Fame. I want to feature videos here that have had a tremendous cultural impact. Many of the videos here have multi-million view counts. What other videos belong here?

Literature, Google Earth, and Writing for the Web

We Tell Stories will publish six pieces of "digital fiction" in the next six weeks, using a variety of interactive platforms to tell/show/reveal the story. The first uses Google Earth to track the movements of a man "in the wrong place, at the wrong time".

Ewan McIntosh, one of my favorite bloggers on learning, teaching, and and Web 2.0 posts a number of links to blogs by and published interviews with project authors.

How amazing it would be to create course assignments using similar technologies.

YouTube in Education

Here's a sampling of other institutions who have YouTube channels.
University of California, Berkeley: http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://youtube.com/mit
Duke University: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DukeUniversityNews
Purdue University: http://youtube.com/purdue
Princeton’s UChannel: http://www.youtube.com/user/uchannel
Auburn University: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=AuburnUniversity&p=v
Old Dominion University: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=odu
Carnagie Mellon University: http://www.youtube.com/user/carnegiemellonu
Vanderbilt University: http://www.youtube.com/user/VanderbiltUniversity
University of Notre Dame: http://www.youtube.com/user/NDdotEDU

UWB's channel isn't full-fledged like these examples yet (it requires an institutional commitment that must be approved by YouTube), but hopefully we'll get there!

UW Bothell's YouTube channel!

University of Washington Bothell has its own YouTube channel! It's still young, but check it out!

Here's one video featured on the channel:

Flow TV Journal - new issue

The new issue of the journal FlowTV is online. FlowTV is a critical forum on television and media culture published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

Highlights from this issue include:

• Confessions of a Television Academic in a Post-TV World
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