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NOTES FROM ALAN NOVEMBER ([|http://www.anovember.com/] THANKS, GWEN!
Students must be globally competitive. This is the first generation that will have to compete with people around the world Three skills – 1. Teach people to deal with a lot of information 2. Teach people to work with other people around the world – how to outsource 3. Teach people to be self-directed The person who can manage their own work is much more valuable than the person who needs a boss to tell them what to do.

1990 – 32% came back to live with their parents at some point 2005 – 65% came back to live with their parents at some point

Web Browsers – get students away from Google Google – 1,680,000,000 web pages for November How to make your account high in the list Google bomb – popularity contest Counting hits and counting links between websites Use for teachers – http://www.answers.com/– pulls from reference material Citations at the end – tell how to format

Another good search engine – http://www.ask.com/ Especially for younger children Tools on the right – Do you want to narrow your search? Expand your search Related names

Blog search engine – http://www.technorati.com/ http://www.youtube.com/– post your own videos

When you use the command 'link:www.sitename.com' in a search engine you see all the incoming links to your site. Go to your web browser. Type: link:http://www.martinlutherking.org/ Shows links to that web site Add host:edu Limit results to web addresses from universities Google has a link on the right to show links to the page.

http://www.easywhois.com/ Type in web address – come to the owner of the web page Stormfront – White Pride World Wide

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Waybackmachine Web archive – see how web page has changed over time

Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com Find sights in only one country. Host: two letter country code (ex. uk for United Kingdom) Host: uk “American Revolution” and “ General Gage” Live debate with students in England about why the American Revolution started

Ask students what search engine they used. Ask students what do forward links reveal? Ask students what the back links tell you. What do the universities say? What do the schools say about this site?

Wikipedia – http://www.wikipedia.org/ 3rd grade class in New Orleans Visit Pitot House each year History tab to see who has contributed Class created article for Wikipedia Other people started adding Kids realized people around the world were reading and adding to their article Teach students to publish on the Internet. They can add content to the encyclopedia Comparing Britannica and Wikipedia – Britannica – 3 mistakes per article Wikipedia – 4 mistakes per article Moderating their web site Has all the popular culture at the end of the article – adaptations of Macbeth

Skype – Call people on your computer. Download Skype user account Globalearner = Alan November Don’t have to pay for long distance calls

Slam Day via Videoconferencing New York City poets – skype – presenting poetry When students get an authentic audience, they will practice, practice, practice

How would you deliver instruction if you didn’t have your school building to come to? Podcast every single day – what you are doing in your classroom

1. We should teach people the practical tools for accessing authentic information 2. Telephone calls are free 3. Connecting students to authentic audiences is one of the most dramatic tools for teaching 4. Use Audacity or Garageband to create podcasts – Students can listen over and over again.