Annotated+Bibliographies


 * __ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 2 __**

[] This web-site gives the basics of blogs and how they are set-up and used in the classroom. It also explains the basics of when and how you might use a blog in your classroom setting giving simple examples. Also, it mentions the problems of blogs and how to avoid them.
 * 1) ** Using Blogs to Integrate Technology in the Classroom **

= 2. Video Blogging in the English Classroom = = [] = =This is a web-site that helps English teachers incorporate video blogging, or vlogging, in their everyday activities. The idea is that students love to be on the computer looking at videos and even creating their own so why not have them put those skills to use in the English classroom. The basics are given for getting started and giving examples to get the students started and hooked on blogging. = [] This web-site provides the basics for using Twitter in the classroom. There is a video included in the web-site as a nice visual learning opportunity. The site gives some useful hints and tricks for having students and parents be successful with Twitter.
 * 1) ** Twitter in the Classroom **

[] This article describes the differences between podcasting and screencasting. It also looks at the problems that might be involved is an instructor uses material that is copyrighted and then published. The site details the rise of screencasting and how simple it is to use and how it is becoming more popular and demanded by students.
 * 1)   ** Move over, podcasting -- screencasting's a growing trend **

**__ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 3 __**

1. **  How to create simple digital stories   ** [] This website goes through the basics of digital story telling. It lists the different sites that can be used to create a digital story. There is a simple overview of the process to making and the steps to follow to create a successful digital story.

2. **  Digital Story Telling – Special Issue   ** [] Seminar.net requested submissions of examples of digital story telling throughout education. Their hope was to compile a wide ranging list of examples of digital story telling in education. The genre of digital story telling is widely used and this site gives the history and future uses of digital story telling within education.

** 3. ** ** Delicious and Flickr in Education ** [] This blog described the uses of both Delicious and Flickr. This particular website does not really endorse the use of Flickr personally but does feel that the access to the pictures is a great resource that should be used within education.

4. **  Is Education Ready for YouTube? ** [] This site describes how teachers can use the website to reinforce the student’s learning experience and help them to relearn what they might have described in the classroom. It also described Schooltube and the use of youtube to various settings in the education arena.

**__ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 4 __**

** 1. ** ** The case for instant messaging in the classroom ** [] This website discusses how IMing in the classroom is not a bad thing but a good thing. Digital natives(students) learn this way and if the students are used to learning this way then it will not be a distraction in the classroom but a help. This is described for students in a 1:1 ratio setting.

** 2. ** ** Skype in the classroom ** [] This site describes the benefits of sykpe and the basics of how to use it. It discusses the uses that can be for cross town synchronous classrooms or distance learning. Also, it describes some of the typical problems with Skype.

** 3. ** ** RSS Ideas for Educators ** [] This is a pdf that is a comprehensive listing for RSS within education. It goes into detail as to what is a feed and how to use a feed. There are sections for professional development and how to create To Do lists within the RSS feeds. There is a lot to look at on this pdf.

4. **  Podcasting in Education   ** [] This site links to several other sites that give examples of using podcasting in education. The links lead to other school sites that have used podcasting. Also, there are more links to various resources that help teachers in lesson plans and multiple types of resources.

**__ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 5 __**

http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education This site provides different types of lists as resources for the teacher. There are different sites listed that provide links to sources to where you can learn about wikis in education. Also, there are multiple links to various sites that show how a wiki can be used in various level classrooms. Finally, there are links to sites that have the teacher in mind and how they can use them to their advantage.
 * 1) **Wikis in Eudcation**

[] This site describes wikipedia and its uses. It also has examples of the pros and cons to this site in education. Finally, it gives examples of how this might be used in the classroom setting.
 * 1) **Wikipedia in Education**

**__ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 6 __**

1. **Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook** [] This site blogs the different benefits to Facebook as a resource as a teacher. The site offers different examples of what can be accomplished with Facebook when it comes to education.

2. **Ning Guidelines** [] This site has the basics of setting up and using the Ning social network in the classroom. The site describes the basics of acceptable use and setting up memberships. Also, it looks at controlling the chat and other various features available in the classroom.

3. **Using Social Bookmarking in the Classroom** [] This site goes through the reasons why you would want to bookmark a site and the process of how to bookmark. The site describes how to bookmark and what options are available to bookmark various sites. It also describes what some of the pitfalls could come from bookmarking.

**__ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 7 __**

**1. 5 collaborative learning options to improve development of writing skills** [] This site gives different ideas for a teacher to use in the classroom. This site starts at the very beginning level of collaboration and then progresses to more difficult tasks. The focus is on the writing process and the various ways that the students can interact with each other in order to accomplish a collaborative writing task.

**2. Thirty One Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in the Classroom** [] This site is presentation style which has a slideshow to go through the different ways to use Google Docs in the classroom. It explains the limits of Google Docs and how that should be known before starting a project in the classroom. Also, it goes through examples of how students could use it for homework, videos and to buddy edit their peers documents. It list several (31) ideas to use in the classroom. One of which would most certainly fit into any curriculum.

**3. My LuLu Experience** [] This site is a personal account of publishing a book on the LuLu site. It details the process of getting something published on LuLu and the differences in costs and what the site has to offer. **__ Martha Ross - Annotated Bibliography – Week 8  __** ** 1. Augmented Reality: The Future of Education Technology ** [] This web site goes into detail about augmented reality in the classroom. It compares virtual reality to augmented reality and how there are difference between them. It also explains the benefits to including it in the classroom and how it is more like reality and can prepare students for the real life situations.  **2.** **The Power of Virtual Worlds in Education: A Second Life Primer and Resource for Exploring the Potential of Virtual Worlds to Impact Teaching and Learning** [] This web site is a white paper that goes through the benefits of virtual world’s education and how it can deepen the student understanding and give opportunities to students that might not necessary might not be able to participate in such a learning environment because of various constraints. It details the multiple uses that can be done in the classroom when it comes to virtual worlds and the advantages. ** 3. Second Life and Education ** [] The article on this web site describes the uses of second life in education. One example is of teaching in the classroom and how a professor can easily manipulate objects in the virtual world that otherwise might be hard to do in real life. Also the article describes a site called SLODDLE that is the second life application of MODDLE that both of my sons have used in their classrooms.