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Archives for February 2012

Understanding… Facebook

by John Hendron · Feb 27, 2012

I’ve been working with Mrs. Cantor on a presentation we will be giving on Tuesday evening, March 13, before the school board meeting in the auditorium. That evening we will be talking about a path towards digital citizenship, and part of the discussion will be on Facebook. I’ve asked Mrs. Cantor to go over privacy settings and best practices.

What I found in research today was this, from Nadkarni, A., and Hofmann, S (2012). Why do people use Facebook? Personality and individual differences 52, pp. 243-249:

Based on the existing literature, we propose a dual-factor model of FB use. According to this model, FB use is primarily motivated by two basic social needs: (1) the need to belong, and (2) the need for self-presentation. The need to belong refers to the intrinsic drive to affiliate with others and gain social acceptance, and the need for self-presentation to the continuous process of impression manage- ment. These two motivational factors can co-exist, but can also each be the single cause for FB use.

This June, 2011 article contains numbers that express the growth in social networking, including Facebook.

Are presentation will be posted here on this blog, later in March.

Filed Under: General News

From Graphic Organizers to… Infographics

by John Hendron · Feb 16, 2012

For my Friday session this week with social studies teachers, map_template we’ll be using the following template to create a map based on important landmarks in the civil rights movement.

> Select ten events or laws from the list that you consider the most important in the history of civil rights in the United States. Find an iconic image to represent five of the events and for all ten, explain in just a few words why you selected it. Place the image(s) and the explanation on the map.

  • 14th Amendment
  • 19th Amendment
  • Truman integrates the armed forces
  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • CORE and the Freedom Rides
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Integration of Central High School, Little Rock
  • Cesar Chavez organizes the United Farm Workers Union
  • Lunch Counter Sit-ins organized by the SNCC
  • Mississippi Freedom Summer
  • March on Washington
  • Civil Rights Act (includes creation of the EEOC)
  • Voting Rights Act
  • NOW founded
  • Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court
  • Age Discrimination Act passed
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
  • Green v. County School Board of New Kent
  • APA removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses
  • Bob Jones University v. The United States
  • Senate rejection of Robert Bork nomination to the Supreme Court
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

Presentation information and links are available here.

Filed Under: Learning for Teachers Tagged With: graphics, infographics, organizers

STEM Summit at Longwood

by John Hendron · Feb 14, 2012

Thanks to Liz Kuhns for the photo!



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Today I had the opportunity to demonstrate several iOS apps today at Longwood/ITTIP’s STEM summit in Farmville. I demonstrated LogoDraw, Rollarcoaster physics, clean energy, Sketch Explorer, and Tinkerbox.

Filed Under: General News

iOS Device Best Practices & Tips

by John Hendron · Feb 6, 2012

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Today Bea and I had the opportunity to share our experiences with mobile devices with an audience assembled at WHRO in Hampton Roads from my office using Skype. Our thanks go to Anita Harris of Sussex County for recommending us to the fine folks putting this conference together.

Our handout is available here in PDF format. Photos from the event can be found here!

Filed Under: General News, Resource of Interest Tagged With: iOS, mobile, presentation

Re-visiting Infographics

by John Hendron · Feb 3, 2012

Infographics online

The February, 2012 edition of Learning and Leading with Technology (ISTE) features infographics–“handcrafted to bundle related data sets into a unified, visually compelling representation… the juxtaposition of those sets of information relates to a more complex story.”

We had a session on this topic last week where teachers explored the possibilities, using tools such as Acorn (our graphics editing software) to do start simple.

The article included the following links, which are in addition to the ones I’ve already provided, for creating infographics in the classroom with students.

  • Floating Sheet Studios – examples
  • Flowing Data – examples for class discussions on current events
  • Information Aesthetics – examples (really, really well-done ones)
  • Information is Beautiful – simple examples
  • Science Pipes – online visualization tool with biodiversity data

As I mentioned in class – it’s not important that you even start this process with technology! Instead, use paper, use markers! The learning isn’t in the final polish of the graphs and graphics, it’s in the higher-order decision making required to think about what data should appear and how persuasive it is at communicating your point.

Filed Under: Learning for Teachers, Resource of Interest Tagged With: infographics

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