Technology through Time

Understanding copyright is a critical basic skill every teacher should be aware of, especially when using the Internet or working with students to publish their work on the Internet. There are a wealth of resources on the Internet to understand more about copyright and how to teach the issues to your students, these include: Standford's Copyright and Fair Use Sit e Tammy Morris also shares a wealth of resources and tools for better understanding Copyright, as well as helping your students to understand copyright. (Click on Copyright) Here are the basics: Use google's Advanced Search to locate Copyright Free images, videos, and documents Use Creative common s to located audio, text, and video under a variety of licenses. Also publish your own work with a license. If you need to use another persons work, contact them to see if it is ok if you are at all unsure. Always cite where a resource came from if it was not your own original work. Wesley Fryer shares a great S...

Did you know? This comes from State School Healthy Policy ( State of Alaska Policy on Bullying and Harassment: Last Updated: 1/5/2011 Bullying/Harassment : Statute  14.33.200 (2006) requires the Department of Education to provide a model policy for harassment, intimidation and bullying to school districts.  Based on this, districts are required to adopt a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation and bullying of any student and share the policy with parents or guardians, students, volunteers and school employees.  Statute  14.33.210 (2006) requires each school district to report all incidences involving harassment, intimidation or bullying to the Department of Education, which will then report it to the state legislature.  Statute  14.33.220 states that a school employee, student or volunteer may not engage in reprisal, retaliation, or false accusation against a victim or a witness.  It also encourages reporting of any harassment...

Perform a basic search, review the results and identify validity and safety of a site. ISTE NETS Standards (Model Digital-Age Work and Learning): model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning. Once you have begun troubleshooting, it is time to learn how to perform basic searches on the Internet. You will quickly find that the Internet is a large repository of information, with often several different ways to solve 1 issue or problem. So knowing how to sort through the wealth of information is crucial from a teachers perspective, especially since it can be a time saving skill when done properly. The process looks something like this: What do you want to learn about or know how to do? Choose key words or phrases from above. These are your search words: Place these in the search engine such as, http://www.google.com Perform the Search Use parameters to narro...

Module I examines the basic skills needed to manage, use, and create information on the web. This includes a variety of skills from using basic computers, to managing bookmarks, to understanding ethics and state of Alaskas policies for students using the Internet. Below you will find a basic presentation generally reviewing all the elements for  Module 1 as well as a video tour of our Course. Click here For detailed lessons and videos for each component of Module I. By the end of Module I, you should be able to solve technology issues independently through searching online for support, or utilizing your personally identified support system. In addition, you should begin to be able to think about how you might do the following: 1. Identify processes and steps for learning new tools and technology. 2. Identify technology persons that share and teach about new tools on a regular basis. 3. Identify online communities that provide discussion boards, webinars or blogs about new technologi...

Here is another example.  I was at the Juneau airport for a flight and took a moment to look around for a water fountain. I spotted what looked like one from across the room, and walked over. Upon closer inspection, it did not look like the regular fountain, but like a filling station with a drinking fountain. Now I started to fill my water bottle the old way, holding it at an angle while I attempting to capture the stream of water. While I was waiting for it to fill,  I inspected the entire device and saw the picture of  a water bottle in the back with a stream of water going into it. I ignored it, and attempted to finish filling my bottle which I could only get 1/4 full because the angle was all wrong for filling. I went and sat down and began to ponder the picture. It occurred to me that it was a way to fill my water bottle all the way. I went back over and attempted to use the picture to fill my bottle as directed. It took me several tries to figure out how to exactl...

Section I: Overview of Web Computing [ ]Perform basic troubleshooting processes when either the computer or the Internet is not working. One of our most basic skills we can use is Technology Troubleshooting. What does that mean? Learning technology is two fold. On one side we learn about technology by investigating, exploring or using a new tool. On the other side we learn about technology by using a tool in depth through troubleshooting and deeper investigation. This means that we need to overcome fear, time, unknown purpose and access of tools to be able to begin to learn technology. This also means we need to have a few basic problem solving tools under our belt or in our toolbox for moving through the technology learning process smoothly. Wikipedia has a great general article about problem solving and highlights several tools for solving problems, including: abstraction, analogy, brainstorming, divide and conquer, hypothesis testing, lateral thinking, means-ends analysis, Method...