Resources of the Week

Print Resource
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations by Clay Shirky
Blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 accoutrements are revolutionizing the social order, a development that's cause for more excitement than alarm, argues interactive telecommunications professor Shirky. He contextualizes the digital networking age with philosophical, sociological, economic and statistical theories and points to its major successes and failures.

Technology Resource
Voicethread
https://email.elmiracityschools.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://voicethread.com/%23home
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Here is a VoiceThread about VoiceThread:
https://email.elmiracityschools.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://voicethread.com/%23q.b409.i848804
Here are some ideas for using VoiceThread with students (possibly as an alternative to PowerPoint):
https://email.elmiracityschools.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://voicethread.com/library/
And, finally, "17 Interesting Ways to Use VoiceThread in the Classroom"
https://email.elmiracityschools.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/2628

If you are interested in using VoiceThread in your classroom, I can help you get started. The library has microphones and a webcam for your use as well.