I think Dan Meyer would like Daytum. With the free account everything you post is public, so be careful what you track. Either way, how cool is this? I could see a sports team in a school keep tracking of statistics and encouraging people to check out their Daytum. Perhaps a biology lab collecting data making a page with their combined findings...
Anyone using this in their school?
I've shared this with a few people and thought I'd share it more widely. Two years ago my school came up with a social networking policy for faculty and staff. This gives the adults in our school clear guidance about what is expected of them. If you use it, please credit it back to The Hewitt School. We fully expect this policy to evolve as our online lives evolve. This just happens to be where it is right now. If you're looking for other policies Alex Ragone recently shared this link, which has quite a lot on it. We've been thinking about this more and more as our school just launched it's official Facebook fan page.
Policy on Social Networking
Faculty and staff members are only to interact online with students in school-sponsored "spaces." Interactions on CourseWeb, Hewitt e-mail, and other Hewitt-sponsored online spaces are appropriate, while interactions via commercial sites such as Facebook, MySpace, etc, are not. If a faculty or staff member is contacted by a student via non-Hewitt channels, the corresponding division head should be notified.
The Brooklyn Museum has noticed that our visitors are capturing wonderful images of the Museum and uploading their snapshots to the photo-sharing site Flickr.
Visitors are welcome to bring their cameras to the Brooklyn Museum. Show us the Museum through your eyes by adding your photos to the Brooklyn Museum Group on Flickr. See this tutorial to get started and learn more about displaying your photos on this page. Before you come to the Museum to shoot, be sure to read our photography policy.
Note: Photos on these pages retain the copyright of the original photographer. To learn more about the photographer and the licensing of their images, click on the photo to go to the photographer's Flickr profile.
From arvindgrover
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I love that the Brooklyn Museum has a community page where people's photos arrive via their official Flickr group. Too fun to see mine there! Also cool that their membership director left comments on my round of photos.
After testifying my love for Posterous (what you're reading now) I'm almost afraid to look into Tumblr. They've also got a huge feature set and clearly have elegant designers. God I love the freewebs.
As some of you know I use Prezi often as a digital presentation tool. I enjoy the aesthetics and the transitions between ideas. I also enjoy being able to navigate in a non-linear way or a linear way. If you haven't tried it, it's worth a look. Here's some video highlights of the most recent version. Much of it is free for educators, but I have a paid account for access to the desktop version (which works without an Internet connection and doesn't require the web).
A colleague at another school posted a message today about the struggles they are having recruiting male teachers in their school. I'm quite sure there are unlimited numbers of possibilities of why schools get into a gender equity challenge. In responding to her I passed on a helpful resource from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, "Recruiting Male Teachers." I found it helpful, and hope you do, too.
I am a member of the Brooklyn Museum and love it. Here are just a few reasons why.
I just checked out the photos that Nicholas Feltron posted online of his 2009 Annual Report and they got my psyched! I pre-ordered mine, did you? Wow, I really do love geeky stuff...
