Collaborative Resource Sharing
Facilitating an organized collection of knowledge
Essential Questions
- What are the most important qualities of a shared resource environment?
- What kinds of experiences does this enable for students and/or teachers in and beyond the classroom?
Discussion sparked at Educon 2.2
Important Qualities:- Searchability, ease of access, bottom-up organization via tagging
- Ability to organize information
- A way to add comments to resources &/or links
--Connect resources in a personal way
-- Ability to boot out a student if "inappropriate"
-- Knowledge is never wasted!!!!!
- Feedback and conversations can happen within the context of individual resources
- Allow teacher to focus class on their resources--not get buried
- Spark and facilitate discussion around resources (you don't just read them)
- Integrate with Diigo / Delicous so teachers can use resource libraries they already have
- Ability to rate and rank resources
- Ability to add resources
- Related resources
- Rated by reading level/grade level/subject
- Updated regularly
- Compare to online malware databases
- Databases that check for malware and spyware automatically!!! :)
--->Checking validity of sources
Enabled Experiences:
-Students must know validity of resources<--must be taught. :)
-Knowledge is never wasted!!!!!
-Constant resource they created
-Too many comments can be a hindrance to access resources
-Students can add resources and work on their project at home, or when they have time and have it when they need it!
Appropriateness of content
Relevant Example Tools:
Track Star ----> http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/