Saturday, October 24, 2009

Materials for YAL Workshop on Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

See links below:



http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little Brother_Character_and_Vocab_Lists.doc


http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little_Brother_PowerPoint.ppt


http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little_Brother_cover-small.jpg

Friday, October 23, 2009

Article on Chicago teachers Building Vocabulary

http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education_update/aug06/vol48/num08/Chicago_Teachers_Learn_to_Build_Academic_Vocabulary.aspx

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Links to Standards Related to YAL Workshop for Little Brother

ENGLISH

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/standards.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/capd.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/assessment.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/1AJ.pdf


SOCIAL SCIENCE

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/standards.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/capd.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/assessment.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/14D_16DJ.pdf

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/18B_18CJ.pdf

Short Review of Little Brother for Wired Magazine

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/geekdad-revie-3/

Annotated Little Brother

Chapter 2


http://w1n5t0n.com/chapter-2/#9

Sunday, October 18, 2009

NCTE Charactereization Lessons

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=175

Character Trait Worksheet
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson175/RWT186-2.pdf

Instructables for Little Brother

How to do some of the things Marcus does.

http://www.instructables.com/member/w1n5t0n/

Article by Cory Doctorow on publisher's website

http://us.macmillan.com/BookCustomPage.aspx?isbn=9780765319852&m_type=4&m_contentid=6475

Little Brother teacher resources

Publisher's Study Guide
http://us.macmillan.com/static/little_brother_readers_guide.pdf

Copied Questions Only
http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/ACFB/Little%20Brother.pdf

Publishers Brochure on Little Brother
http://us.macmillan.com/static/little_brother_educators_brochure.pdf

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Chicago Teachers' Center workshop on using digital photo storage

Exploring the Possibilities of Using Web Based Digital Images

The next Resource Center workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 13 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm. Presenters Cole Pierce and Roxana Hadad will help participants learn how to access online digital resources, like photo storage sites and blogs, for classroom curricular activities.

Aussie kids work to curb Cyber-bullying

Australian article about cyber-bullying conference.


http://www.theage.com.au/national/stemming-the-tide-of-cyber-bullying-20091012-gu1x.html

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Hackers as Nation-Builders?

State Dept offers $2.5 million for hackers to wire the Mid-East and Africa

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/state-dept-offers-25.html

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Crypto by Sticko

Stick figures explain cryptology


Found via BoingBoing

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html

Monday, September 21, 2009

Blog about balancing freedom and safety of children

http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/

School district privacy policy complicates video conferenceing between class and YA author

Does the author need to wear a blindfold if they visit in person?


http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/17/teacher-asks-ya-auth.html

"Smokescreen" a game for kids about online privacy

Interesting reactions to post about online privacy game from Channel 4 in UK


http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/18/smokescreen-privacy.html

A "Facebook teacher" ideas on using Facebook with students

Tips for teachers on using Facebook with students, from Facebook. Found via Privacy Pete's Twitter post

Warning: Comments Section has graphic language (someone who apparently doesn't like Facebook).


http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=137948147130

Friday, September 18, 2009

Good short video of Cory Doctorow on Little Brother and Creative Commons

Although many viewers don't appreciate the "style" the video was shot in, good short summary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8CRwGAzNOk&feature=player_embedded#t=231

Harvard study on use of social networks

How do people use social networks? Businesses want to know.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother featured at Young Adult Literature Conference sponsored by NEIU's Chicago Teachers' Center

Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother is one of the featured young adult books at a conference sponsored by NEIU's Chicago Teachers' Center.
W1n5t0n is now a fan of their Facebook page (they also post via Twitter). Here is the post about the conference:
Chicago Teachers' Center Young Adult Literatu...re Conference: 10/23-24 -Q Center- St Charles,IL. $400 or free to teachers in GEAR UP, READwELL, & Cicero-Berwyn schools. Register at www.neiu.edu/~yal .

Monday, September 7, 2009

Viral Facebook campaign on healthcare September 2009

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1201424632256#/group.php?gid=140931714400&ref=share

Friday, September 4, 2009

Is Facebook already fading? Facebook Exodus

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html

Former Attorney General not granted general immunity from liability for his misuse of the material witness warrants in national security investigation

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ashcroft-rights5-2009sep05,0,2169737.story

Rachel Maddow's report on electronic media and Iranian uprising

Earlier this summer Rachel Maddow produced a couple great segments about the Iranian uprising and the impact of electronic media. For instance, watch the first seven minutes of this clip, and you could probably follow up with the correspondent at Huffington Post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmAvYxkXWkM

Blog By Carol- 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education

http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2008/08/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-education/

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Acorn fights forclosures

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20270194&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574905&rfi=6

Greece 2008

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1867643,00.html

15 years ago...

http://www.informationweek.com/520/20uwfw.htm;jsessionid=PADVUZTOIMXYZQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Twitter and YouTube inpacted protests after Iran's election

http://www.independent.com/news/2009/jul/04/women-and-iranian-election/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/iran-liveblogging

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJeRo1_x0qM&feature=related