To the best of my knowledge I have finished

9:13 Am 10 June 2009  Australian time.

To the best of my knowledge I have finished the School Library Learning 2.0 tutorial. I want to thank Jackie and Connie and all the others I know nothing about for your work on the project...

A big thanks to Jeanne for telling me about it.

It's the first real intellectual challenge I have had since the turn of the century. You are well on the way to developing a working model for online education. With a few tweaks here and there it would make a required course of study at college or university. In addition other units can be modeled after it. I think you have a real winner.

George

#23 Week 9:

Summarize your thoughts about this program.

At last just about finished! Just this and the end of unit survey to complete and I can get stuck into something else.

First I must say I'm not a librarian' however I did take a few classes when working on my degree in educational media, some 35 or so years ago. I concentrated on the media production and AV side of the library media specialist training. But over the years the little bit of library classes has helped in my research.

I found this program to be exciting and well worth the effort I put into it.

In addition I can see that a lot of time and effort, on the part of the people that put it all together was well worth the time I spent doing it.
I'm envious of those of you who put it together, you had the wonderful tools to do it with the blog, Wiki and all the other tools used to assemble this gem.

When I started on my studies in online education I was limited to working with Golfer, bulletin board's, and email to do all the things you can do now with such ease. When the web browser cane along I thought I had died and went to heaven.
Well I think I have said enough about how great you efforts have been an pass on some of the things need to be looked into.

When I started I ran into a number of glitches that may be due to the browser I'm using. It may be worth a note; if you are using version 8 of Internet Explorer you may have problems with cookies not being excepted from some of the sites and you may need to adjust the settings on your browser to allow for the acceptance of cookies. See Week 5 for what to do about it.

There are also a number of dead links in the week 9 things. Not sure if it is the code or if the sites have moved or been taken down.

Some of the things need just a little more how to do it. Perhaps a help file Or Q &A to help out the people that lack experience working with some of the tools.

I found the blog layout would get a bit boring. It works well for people that have not done any web development and there is nothing wrong with the WYSIWYG. It certainly makes it easer for people to get their ideas into print so to speak. I found some simple HTML tags that work well in the blog, perhaps a thing on using some HTML to dress up the blog would be worth addinga, “If you want to experiment with HTML”, to the things.

And to bring things to the end I must say CONGRATULATIONS to the teem that developed this package I know a lot of hard work went into it.

I looked over the questionnaire but didn't fill it out as I didn't fit into the target group. An old classmate from my college days suggested I try it on for size that I would like it. Well she was right I did like it and hope I can contribute to in in some way. To sum it up in one word FANTASTIC

Pick out your own description from below:


194 words for "fantastic": Barmecidal, Barmecide, Gothic, absurd, adroit, airy, alien, antic, appalling, apparent, apparitional, arbitrary, astonishing, autistic, balmy, baroque, beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, brain-born, capricious, chimeric, chimerical, clever, cockamamie, concocted, conspicuous, cooked-up, cracking, cranky, crazy, crotchety, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dream-built, dreamlike, dreamy, eccentric, egregious, enigmatic, erratic, erroneous, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fascinating, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, flaky, florid, foolish, forged, formidable, freakish, great, grotesque, harebrained, hatched, high-flown, humorsome, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imagined, implausible, impossible, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, ingenious, insane, invented, irrational, kinky, laughable, legendary, loony, ludicrous, made-up, maggoty, manufactured, marked, marvelous, massive, miraculous, misleading, monstrous, monumental, moody, mortal, motiveless, mythical, nonsensical, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notional, odd, of mark, ostensible, outlandish, outrageous, outre, outstanding, overwhelming, passing strange, peculiar, petulant, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, prodigious, put-up, puzzling, quaint, queer, quirky, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, rococo, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sensational, signal, silly, singular, specious, spectacular, spectral, splendid, strange, striking, stupendous, superior, supposititious, temperamental, terrific, towering, tremendous, trumped-up, unaccountable, unactual, unbelievable, uncommon, unearthly, unexpected, unfounded, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unprecedented, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsubstantial, vagarious, vagrant, visionary, wacky, wanton, wayward, weird, whimsical, wild, wonderful, wondrous

George

#20, 21 & 22 Week 9:

Podcasts, Video & Downloadable Audio

#20. Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and sharevideos.

I viewed the Videos:

Introducing the Book
Web 2.0
Library 2.0 Manifesto
March of the Librarians
Jack O'Connell Goes Back to School

Loved them! Great little send up on the help desk.

By chance a few days ago I came across the following video clip and It upset me to no end. How can the police manage to get away with this kind of thing. It shows me that there is still a long way to go before things like I viewed in this clip come to an end.

Once again its a person of color that is beaten and for what we may never know. The man made on hostel moves I could see from the tape and what could he have said to cause that kind of a reaction from a police officer.

What the strange thing is, why would a police officer care weather the man's jacked was zipped or not. Who knows perhaps its breaking the law for a black man to be on the street without zipping up his jacket.

What ever the the reason nothing can justify that attack and arrest of that man.I find that I'm torn on weather I like or dislike YouTube. On the plus side a number of very informative clips manage to find there way into the light of day that might never have made it due to government censorship or some other means of cover up.

On the down side the stupid thing some people do for there five minutes of fame only to encourage others to to the same only to be one up on the other.

Woooooohh!!! there lad Don't get carried away move on to the next 'thing”. Your nearing the end of the tutorial.

As for potential there are certainly a large number of items on YouTube that are worth having in a library blog.

Now for inserting the video into your Blog there is an adjustment you will need to make so that the window will fit into the column of your blog. The with of the column is 420 pixels wide.

The Windows from YouTube vary in width. The original size of the one I inserted into this column looked like this: [object width="560" height="340] To adjust it to fit into the column it was necessary to change the width and hight to; [object width="420" height="261].

NOTE: there two places in the code that need to be changed to work properly.

#21 Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!)

Problems here most of the links were dead or web pages missing. Can't seem to make any working connections to your recommended links.

Not having sucsess I goggled “podcast” and found a collection at podcast.com. Click on the buttons below to visit a collection of educational podcast and view a podcast on An Introduction to Project Learning

#22 eBooks and Audio eBooks

What can I say? Not being a Librarian I didn't have a clue that any collection of this extent existed, simply for the band width required to download it. What a wonderful collection. I can see that I will be reading and collecting a library I never dreamed I could have to treasure.

I have included links below to eBook sites so that any one reading this Blog will also have the opportunity to take advantage of the collections of clasic books.

#18 & 19 Week 8

#18 Online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.

All I can say is that its amazing the change that has come about in the last few years with regards to Online productivity tools.

As a matter of fact I ran a goggle on “web-based productivity applications” And a very long list of applications and information was generated. Many of them are free and for that reason you must but up with some inconvenience of having advertising distracting you from what your doing... But then it is free!

Secondly I look at the online versions and find them satisfactory for learning about the different office applications. However, I would be very reluctant to put any sensitive information on them. The major drawback to the online applications is that you must be able to go online to take advantage of all that is available.

That brings us back around to stand alone free and inexpensive software to do the same thing off line.

Goggle “ free and inexpensive” and and find curriculum materials as well as software and hardware.

When you Goggle “free and inexpensive software” again there is a very long list of goodies. Do take care some of the items are download for free and you may get the first year free but after that you will start receiving accounts for the annual subscription.

I have started a document on Goggle doc to collaborate with others working on a project . We have not got down to the nitty gritty as yet but I can see the defent advantage of using it to develope
I think that just about winds it up for this 'thing' so I can move on to the next.

#19 The Library Thing

I think this is a great tool! As my collection grows I'll add my new books it to my List. This could also be used as a reference list for publication of conference papers etc. Added my five bucks. Had to scrounge around to find what I have and managed to find five of them.

If you click the button below it will take you to my Library Thing.

Not much of a list at this point, only a few survived a large number of moves.

Been there and done that. Sadly I have but one book in my collection. With all the moving around I have done in my life I have but one book that I treasure and have managed to keep.

It looks like a good place to find books of interest for those wanting to add to their library. A excellent source for librarians wanting to find Books reviewed by their peers and not a publisher just selling books.

I have joined The Library Thing And registered “The Indian Tipi: It's History, Construction, and Use”.

I used this book to construct my tipi when living in Colorado before to coming to Australia. I wish I had been able to bring it with me but it would have been hard to get 18 lodge poles into my bags an on the plane.

I used the book once again when at The Tasmanian State Instate of Technology to supervise the School of Art Students project on American Indian Art.

On the left is the photo of the tipi I built when in Colorado.

#16 & 17 Week 7

Another new experience went to the Wikis and opened my account.

Not to sure as to how I feel about the Wikis just yet the one I set up seems to be a bit buggy had some problems setting up my profile. Going to see if I can find some tutorial on setting them up.

Found a help file on the Wiki but its not much help the help file said to create a new page go to the side bar but cant even find the side bar.

Tried to find a help file but the help file was no help at all. I gave up on that Wiki account and went back to Goggle and found another one called WetPaint. Just click on the button to take you my Wiki Home Page Reawara Research and Development.

On my Wiki you will also find a more detailed Profile about me and where I have been for the last 70 some years.

I recommend that when you set-up your Wiki you Goggle “educational wikis”.

There is one drawback to the Wiki that it has advertising in it but it's free! If you want to remove the adverts you have to buy a membership.

Here is another HTML tag you can use on your blog to link to another source.

If you would like to put a link button on your blog pages this is best done with a small form tag As follows:

<FORM ACTION="The URL" METHOD=GET>
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Text on button">
</FORM></plaintext>

Having looked at the Wikis listed in the tutorial I do believe that they can be a wonderful tool for interaction in an educational stetting. The WetPaint Wiki Has many good features and allows for a multimedia approach for the pretension of learning tutorials.

#17

I Visited the California Curriculum Connections wiki and posted the following comment.

My initial experience with the Wikis was not a good one. Some how I found a wiki that did not work well and had many problems with it. I wasted a lot of time trying to make it work and just had to give up on it. From there I did a goggle for educational wikis and found a suitable one. When starting out with little or no knowledge about a web tool its important that the participant has a satisfactory experience or they may just through in the towel, walk away from the tutorial and not finish it.

I would suggest that a list of some simple, easy to develop, wikis should be placed into the tutorials so that the first experience is a positive one. From there they can goggle for others that may better fit the subject they want to develop if none of the listed ones are satisfactory

When looking over the number of people starting the Tutorial and the ones finishing It would appear that there is some reason why they dropped out. There is a survey at the end of the tutorial for those that finish but what about the ones that don't get that far?

Perhaps if there was a link in each of the 'things' that linked to a, (Please tell us why you are not able to complete the tutorial) survey, as to why you did not complete the tutorial.

This would alert you to problems that may not be obvious but are a stumbling block for some. From my experience from doing the tutorial so far, (I'm a few years behind In the Technology) I was getting frustrated in some of the 'things' and had I been a little less determined to complete the tutorial I could have easy tossed it in.

George

#15 Week 6 The Horizons Report

To comment on The Horizon Report at this time would not be complete as Just to see what the past reports were about I goggled it and found a total of eight reports one of them an Australian New Zealand report. The report start in 2004 and at this writing there are two 2009 reports. It would appear I have some home work to do before I make any comments on the project at all. I will comment to making my observations on the Report at a latter date. I have added the links to the reports to this posting for those of you that have not been aware that there were more then the one report. With the links supplied you can read the reports on line or download the PDF documents to read at your leasure. About the graphics on the right of this text: I'm finding there are lots of things that can be added into the blog by using the HTML tags. This time I just went to the web page and opened the page to view the html version of the page. That can be done by going to the View menu and select Source. That will open a window and you will be able to see the html code. All I did was to find what I wanted and did a copy and paste into the CoffeeCup Free HTML editor And have a play with it until I got it the way I wanted it. The Window that opens is a read only document but it can be copied. You can't edit the document from there I have found it a great way to get the address of pictures etc. Always remember to give credit to the source of the item copied or linked. The thumbnails you see are linked from their server as well as the download links. I did make an attempt to change the format of the table but could not get it to work for me so I just went with the flow so to speak. Guess I have spent enough time on this for now!George

Horizon Reports Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition web version 2009 Horizon Report web version Japanese version Spanish version Catalan version 2008 Horizon Report Australia-New Zealand Edition web version 2008 Horizon Report web version Spanish version Catalan version 2007 Horizon Report web version Spanish version Catalan version 2006 Horizon Report 2005 Horizon Report 2004 Horizon Report

File Hosting Servers

File Hosting Servers:

If you Goggle Free File Hosting Servers you will find a number of them listed. Don't just grab the first on that comes along have a look at all the pitfalls that may be hidden along the way. Many of them have tones of advertising pop-ups And as a free user you cant always be sure your files will be there. I you have a large number of files you send out to friends and family you might just want to pay for the service. There are advantages for using the files servers as you will not have to use up your monthly allotment of file up/down load Gb's.

I have uploaded a number of conference papers as am example and for those that are interested in computers in education.

List of Publications Authored and Co-Authored

By George Duckett

From January of 1994 to March of 1997, George Duckett was enrolled in a PhD program at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia. He was working on expanding his PhD. studies started at the University of Tasmania in Launceston, Tasmania Australia. His studies were in a Pre-service Teacher Education Program for Educational Computing. On moving to Deakin, Duckett shifted the emphases of his study from Pre-service education to Teacher Professional Development in Information Technologies. During his studies He attended conferences, presented and submitted papers to Journals. The following are copies of his published work.

The files below are in PDF format and are housed on file hosting server. To view them you can download then by clicking on the link. When the web page appears click on the free user button to download the file

Published Papers:

1995

• Duckett, G. et.al. 1995, Athena University -VOU and GENII: A Model of Conceptual Change and Collaboration, in CSCL '95 Computer Support for Collaborative Learning '95 Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 17-20, 1995.

• Wallet, K., Duckett, G. & White, L. 1995, Do K-12 Teachers Need a Gateway to the World and Beyond?, at Research and Teaching in Cyberspace II: The Second in the Series of Conferencing Workshops for Teachers On Using the Internet May 11-16, 1995, hosted by Athena University - Virtual Online University.

• Duckett, G. 1995, Using Technology For P-12 Teacher Professional Development Programs in Communication Technology (CT), submitted as part of a research Report to the National Board of Employment, Education and Training and Skills Formation Council Project,A Survey of Technological Infrastructure in Education and the Professional Development and Support of Educators and Trainers in Information and Communication Technologies.

• Duckett, G. 1995, A Plan For K-12 Teacher Professional Development in Communication Technology: Using the Carrot and not the Stick, at Research and Teaching in Cyberspace II: The Second in the Series of Online Conferencing Workshops for Teachers On Using the Internet May 11-16, 1995, hosted by Athena University - Virtual Online University in the USA.

• Duckett, G., Wallet, K. & White, L. 1995, Gateway To The World For American Rural Education, a position paper for the GENII Lab School (a branch of Athena University).

• Duckett, G., et.al. 1995, GENII Welcomes K-12 Teachers to an Online Lab School, in News@VOU, an online publication from Athena University, v1, n1, March 12, 1995.

• Duckett, G., Mitchell, T., Paprzycki, M., & Wallet, K. (1995, Nov. 12-15 1995). Defining Computer Literacy As It Relates To Teacher Education. Paper presented at the Computers on Campus National Conference, Huston, Texas.

  1994

• Mitchell, T., Paprzycki, M. & Duckett, G. 1994, "Computer Literacy: A Global Perspective", 1994 International Symposium on Mathematics/Science Education and Technology, San Diego, California, July 22, 1994, and in: Mathematics/Science Educationa and Technology, Marks, G.H. (ed.), AACE, Chalottesville, VA., pp. 114-117.

• M., Mitchel, T. & Duckett, G. 1994,
  "Computer Literacy and Competencies: Preparing Teachers for the Information Superhighway", Eighth Annual Southeastern Small College Computing Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, November 11 - 12, 1994

• Duckett, G. 1994, Defining Computer Literacy/Competencies: For P-12 Teacher In-service Programmes in Information Technology, in The Information Superhighway: Implications for Education, McDougall, A. & Thiessen, D. (eds), Computing In Education Group of Victoria, Melbourne, pp.54-67.

• Setzer, V. W., & Duckett, G. (1994, 28 June - 2 July 1994). The Risks to Children Using Electronic Games - Abstract. Paper presented at the Asia Pacific Information Technology in Training and Education Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia, and in: Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture: The Virtual Square, 2(4).

• Setzer, V.W. & Duckett, G. 1994, Electronic Games: Are they hazardous to your health?, in Pandora's Box, Burwood Association of Students Inc., Burwood Vic., Augast 1994.

• Duckett, G., Gay, M., Moore, T.L. & Wallet, K. 1994, The GENII Project: Giving Classroom Teachers "A Ticket To Ride" On The Information Superhighway, in The Information Superhighway: Implications for Education, McDougall, A. & Thiessen, D. (eds), Computing In Education Group of Victoria, Melbourne,pp.68-79.

• Duckett, G., Gay, M., Moore, T. L., & Wallet, K. (1994a, ). GENII: An Internet Welcoming Committee for K-12 Teachers. Paper presented at the Research and Pedagogy in Cyberspace: A Conferencing Workshop for Teachers On Using the Internet, Virtual Online University, and in: Computerchat, Australian Reading Association Newsletter of the Special Interest Group 1: Technology in Literacy, 72), pp. 40-50.

• Duckett, G. & Wallet, K. 1994, A Model Definition For Technological Literacy/Competencies For Teacher/Educators As Developed For The Spotsylvania School District, Virginia, USA, Abstract found in Procedings Vol. 2 apitite '94 p. 484. This paper was presented as a Poster paper at the Asia Pacific Information Technology in Training and Education Conference and Exhibition, 28 June - 2 July 1994, Brisbane, Australia.

• Duckett, G. 1994, An Overview of Proposed Instructional Units for the Teaching Profession in Information and Instructional Technology, Abstract found in Procedings Vol. 2 apitite '92 p. 467. This paper was presented as a Poster paper at the Asia Pacific Information Technology in Training and Education Conference and Exhibition, 28 June - 2 July 1994, Brisbane, Australia.

• Mitchell, T., Paprzycki, M. & Duckett, G. 1994, Research Methods Using Computer Networks, Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture, v2 n4 August, 1994.

• Paprzycki, M., Mitchell, T & Duckett, G. 1994, Using Computer Networks to Study Computer Literacy, in Technology and Teacher Education Annual, 1994. and in: The Proceedings of STAT 94- Fifth Annual Conference of the Society for Technology and Teacher Education, Washington DC; March 16-19, 1994.pp. 91-93.

• Mitchell, T., Paprzycki , M. & Duckett, G. 1994, Research Methods Using Computer Networks, in The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture: The CYBERSPACE MONITOR, ISSN 1068-5723, September 27, 1994 Volume 2 Number 4.

• Setzer,. V.W.. & Duckett, G. 1994, The Risks To Children Using Electronic Games, in The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture: The Virtual Square, Shimabukuro, J. (ed), ISSN 1068-5723, September 27, 1994 Volume 2 Number 4.

  1993

• Kelly, I. & Duckett, G. 1993, Current Pre-service Teacher Education: Handicapping the Computer, The Teacher and The Student, in Australian Educational Computing, Vol. 8 ACEC '93 Edition, pp. 133-138.
  

• Duckett, G. 1993, So Now We Have A National K-12 Curriculum: Where do we go from here?,
  in Australian Educational Computing, Vol. 8 ACEC '93 Edition, pp. 67-71.

• Duckett, G. 1993, A National K-12 Curriculum for Australia: Is it the thin edge of the wedge?, in Connections: The Journal For Technology Coordinators, v9 n4 pp. 17-21.

• Mitchell, T., Paprzycki, M., & Duckett, G. 1993, Using Computer Networks to Study Computer Literacy. Paper presented at the Computers on Campus National Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC.

  1992

• Duckett, G. 1992, Basic Problems in the Development of a Computer Literacy Curriculum, in ACEC '92 Computing the Clever Country?, Computer Education Group of Victoria, Richmond North, Vic. 3121, 283-318.

  Un-Published Paper:

• A Definition of Technological Literacy/Competency For Teacher/Educators

  Proposal Paper:

• Wallet, K. & Duckett, G. 1993, A Proposal of Technological Literacy/Competency for Educators in Spotsylvania County Schools, submitted to the Spotsylvania County School District as part of the five year Technology Plan.

  Update to THE RISKS TO CHILDREN USING ELECTRONIC GAMES Click here to see updated paper.