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TagCrowd  (https://tagcrowd.com) is a free app developed by a Stanford University student named Daniel Steinbock. By using a "paste text', "website URL" or by uploading a file, TagCrowd can detect word frequency. By showing the word frequency of the text, it gives the reader a general idea what the text is about. Here is what the TagCrowd home screen looks like with my Copyright blog pasted-in: Choose your text source: Paste Text   Web Page URL   Upload File Paste text to be visualized: plain text, 500 kilobyte max Visualize! Options: Language of text: Ignore common words in this language   none   Czech   Danish   Dutch   English   Finnish   French   German   Google search   Hungarian   Italian   Norwegian   Polish   Portuguese   Romanian   Spanish   Swedish   Maximum number of words to show? 25 - 100 is a good range Minimum frequency? Don't ...

Maybe my major project target would be building a Website on how to ???????? What????? Do I need a "What"; or simply a lesson on how to build the site...

I am at a lost as to choosing a major project for ITA class. The only thing that comes to mind is creating a Website; which is something I really want to learn how to do using technology. Maybe I could plan a lesson on creating your own Website.

I am aware of the definition of "plagiarism", which simply means "don't claim someone else's work or ideas and pass them off as your own. During our educational years we have been taught to cite our work when we use other people's work. Although citing our work comes in different formats (APA, MLA, CMS, etc) abiding to this rule keeps us out of trouble. After reviewing and reading the information regarding copyright, I am astonished. I assumed that most information on the web was free game. I believed that once information was posted to the web, such as pictures, news articles, blogs, Facebook, etc, i became public, therefore usable information. After reviewing the "Creative Commons" videos, and Understanding "Fair Use in the Digital World video, I learned that my assumptions were wrong. I know now that "plagiarism" is extended to information on the web. As a teacher, it is important to inform students where information comes from...

EverNote ( https://evernote.com/ ) is a web-based / mobile app tool that allows you to store Notes (that can be pulled from other sources into EverNote), set appointment calendar, bookmark not only websites but specific information on the website (screenshot, copy URL, select pages) and it allows you to setup Chat meeting. This app tool has a feature called Web Clipper ( https://evernote.com/products/webclipper ,) which allows me to share information via other social media sites. It is so ironic that, I had seen EverNote before my Instructional Tech class as an app on my Iphone. I never explored it, I actually uninstalled it from my phone because I have a bad habit of uninstalling apps I don't use. I could use this app in the classroom to hold my lesson plans, hold specific materials needed to teach the lessons (videos, my notes, shared information from other sources, individual student portfolio files, and communications with parents). This app tool would help save time because ...

In order to have an open participatory community, the community must first learn the value of sharing information. Sharing information is crucial because it has been proven that we learn more from each other, rather than textbook reading. Educators see shared learning in the classroom among their students all the time (especially during turn and talk sessions or peer tutoring/mentoring). It seems ironic that our students are more than willing to share their information with their peers, while educators continue to hold firm to a two-year old mentality "its mine all mine" (as stated by David Wiley-Open Education and the Future of Openness). Wiley's use of the 4-R's (reuse, redistribute, revise and remix) is an excellent recipe for spreading information all over the world. The 4-R's is like a snowball effect, it starts off small but grows bigger and stronger as more and more people lay hands on it to keep it moving. In the words of Thomas Jefferson " He who rec...

Despite all the technology, all the social media websites, good communication still goes back to the old fashion theory of Word of Mouth is the best way to spread information. It just so happen that technology helps the information to travel faster but its still TALK. So educators should talk in the hallways, lunchroom, parking etc... Any teacher that does not share information is probably cheating their students from being exposed to learning techniques Not used within their classroom http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/25-ways-teachers-can-connect-more-with-their-colleagues/

Online educational programs like MobyMax(https://www.mobymax.com/signin), EasyCbm (https://easycbm.com/) and Study Island (http://www.studyisland.com/) plus many more are effective ways to monitor the students' progress. Although, these programs were not designed to give the teacher free time, they allow the teacher to work with the students at their learning level. Easycbm has a feature that allows an Intervention curriculum. Additionally, some of these programs automatically generate Benchmark reports.

To answer the question to Share or Not to Share is a real no brain-er. ALWAYS SHARE! Educators agree "there is no such thing as a stupid question" because there is ALWAYS somebody that the information may help. Sharing might be a small simple word but it carries a lot of weight. Sharing not only improves the educators' ability to teach or the students' ability to improve their academics, sharing is what makes the world go round and round. Before the Internet, word of  mouth was a successful form of communication. Today, word of mouth is still an important form of communication, but information can now reach an unlimited number of people at warp speed all over the world, its called social media (via the World Wide Web). https://youtu.be/ELelPZWx7Zs Sharing of information is a community responsibility. For example, if Ms.Smith (the ELA teacher) has found a way to improve reading  and writing skills; by sharing with the Math teacher,  it would help improve the student...