Month: February 2009

This week’s podcast in the As We May Teach… series is now online:

Synthesizing Information: Google Docs and Mashups

In this podcast, I outline how to use the Google Docs spreadsheet module to create mashups, and what the advantages of this approach are for data integration and visualization.

The resources for this podcast are listed below; all feedback on these resources and the podcast is welcome.

Synthesizing Information: Google Docs and Mashups

Mashup Resources

Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Second Edition. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 2001. ProgrammableWeb &mdash Web 2.0 Mashups Directory BBC News Map OUseful.Info, the blog&hellip

Data and Image Sources

ISO 3166 Country Code Lists United Nations Statistics Division UNSD — Demographic and Social Statistics Millennium Development Goals Indicators Flickr

My podcast series, As We May Teach, is currently featured in the “Highlights” section on iTunes U, together with the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and PRI/BBC/RockhopperTV’s Survival:

Needless to say, I’m really happy about this — it’s an honor to have my work featured in this company.

The next podcast in the As We May Teach… series is now online:

Networked Collaboration 101: Exploring Google Docs

This podcast takes a first look at Google Docs as a platform for collaboration, showing how it can be used for both discussion and the creation of projects that can be shared via the Web.

Resources for this podcast are listed below; suggestions for other associated resources, as well as comments on the podcast are always welcome.

Networked Collaboration 101: Exploring Google Docs

Google Docs American Folklife Center, Library of Congress — “Now What a Time”: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 Delta Blues Museum — Uncensored History of the Blues Tufte, Edward R. The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 2003. YouTube Dizzy Gillespie — A Night In Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie — Salt Peanuts

A new podcast in the As We May Teach… series is now online:

Three Easy Pieces: Putting Google Earth to Work

This podcast continues the exploration of Google Earth begun in the previous podcast in the context of three educational projects, ranging from economics data visualization, through literary analysis, to environmental citizen science.

The resources for this podcast are listed below; suggestions for other associated resources are always welcome — please post them in the comments.

Three Easy Pieces: Putting Google Earth to Work

Data in Place

USDA — Natural Resources Conservation Service — 2003 Annual National Resources Inventory Apple iWork — Pages GIMP

Stories in a Landscape

Google Lit Trips Centro Virtual Cervantes — Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quijote de la Mancha Don Quijote de la Mancha — Ruta de Don Quijote Project Gutenberg — Miguel de Cervantes. The History of Don Quixote. Trans. John Ormsby. Volume 1; Volume 2 Antonio Caselles-Moncho, Francisco Parra-Luna, and Rafael Pla-López. The Kinematics of the Quixote and the Identity of the “Place in La Mancha”: A Systemic Approach.

Visualizing Citizen Science

Maine Audubon – Maine Amphibian Monitoring Program

I am happy to announce that, as part of a joint project with the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), I have started a new weekly podcast series. These podcasts will look at several models for the use of educational technologies, and how to apply them in teaching via hands-on examples. The iTunes U podcasts can be found at:

As We May Teach: Educational Technology, From Theory Into Practice

The first two podcasts in the series are now online. The first, TPCK and SAMR — Models for Enhancing Technology Integration, presents the two theoretical frameworks that will guide much of the rest of the series. The second, Power in Simplicity: Virtual Thumbtacks on Virtual Maps, shows how ideas from these models can be applied to educational uses of Google Earth-generated cartography. All of the podcasts have associated online and offline resources — the ones that accompany the first two podcasts are listed below. Each weekly podcast will be accompanied by a blog post here, containing resources, as well as an opportunity for people to ask questions and provide feedback via the comments.

While the specific software and examples have been selected to be particularly useful to Maine educators, I hope these podcasts prove useful to educators in other places. If you have any thoughts about the podcasts, post them in the comments — I really would like to hear from you.

TPCK and SAMR – Models for Enhancing Technology Integration
The TPCK Model: TPCK – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge AACTE (Eds.) The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Educators. New York:Routledge, 2008.	The SAMR Model: Ruben R. Puentedura. Transformation, Technology, and Education. (2006)
PK Examples: John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking (Eds.) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. (1999) Education Resources Information Center	CK Examples: Science Daily Institute of Historical Research – Reviews in History
PCK Examples: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics – Lessons and Resources Center for Applied Linguistics – CALdigests	TK Examples: Apple iLife Support EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative – 7 Things You Should Know About…
TPK Examples: The Sloan Consortium – Effective Practices Education & Information Technology Library	TCK Examples: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics – MicroObservatory VisualComplexity
SAMR Examples: William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Macbeth. Flickr Shakespeare Group Many Eyes UpStage Macbeth in Second Life	TK+SAMR Examples: GeoGebra NetLogo
TPCK+SAMR Examples: Prof. Wyn Kelley: MIT OpenCourseWare – 21L.003 Introduction to Fiction Prof. Oded Meyer: Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative – Introduction to Statistics Prof. Edward L. Ayers: Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia – The Rise and Fall of the Slave South Prof. Jon Beasley-Murray: University of British Columbia – Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation

Power in Simplicity: Virtual Thumbtacks on Virtual Maps
PK: MacEachren, Alan. How Maps Work. New York: Guilford Press, 1995.	PCK: Monmonier, Mark. Mapping It Out. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
TK: Making Maps: DIY Cartography	TPK: ESRI GIS Education Community
TCK: Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees. London: Verso, 2007.	TPCK: Stuart Sinton, Diana and Jennifer Lund. Understanding Place. Redlands: ESRI Press, 2006.
SAMR: Google Earth Google Earth Community