This wiki is to do with an ICT course being taught at St Paul's School, London, to 13–14 year-olds (Year 9). For an explanation of this page and of the course, please go here. For the full list of lessons to date, go here.
This course has been compiled by David Smith and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Licence. For permissions beyond the scope of this licence, please click here to email me.
Background for teachers
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, Douglas Adams (1999)
Douglas Adams: an awful lot of 'us' (DRS, 2007)
Kids, computer games and – oh yeah – learning, 2007, John Naughton (pdf)
Did You Know 2.0, YouTube (2007)
On the leading edge: some ideas on managing huge technological change in education, Ewan McIntosh (2007)
Small Pieces Loosely Joined ... for Kids, David Weinberger (2002)
A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything, Will Richardson (2007) 'In class, I have to power down', 2007, Guardian, Lord Puttnam
Their Space, Demos, 2007 (pdf)
Web 2.0, Wikipedia
What Is Web 2.0?, Tim O'Reilly, 2005
Eight Best (Or Most Interesting) Web 2.0 Definitions and Explanations, Social Computing Magazine (2007)
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us, YouTube
UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian, H2O (Harvard) Using Wikis in Education (blog)
Personal Learning Environment, Michele Martin (2007)
Robin Good's four postings about social software: 1, 2, 3, 4, (2007)
Social Software Timeline
BBC/OU: Click On, open2.net
Del.icio.us links tagged ICT_teaching
Del.icio.us links tagged ICT_skills
Computational Thinking, Jeannette M. Wing (2006) (pdf)
23 Things (2006)
My Top 10 Tools, Michele Martin (2007)
Dimension-Bending Games Stretch Fabric of Space and Time (2007)
Powers of 10
If Libraries had shareholders, O'Reilly (2007)
Introduction
ICT at school
Home and mobile technologies
Mobile phones in the classroom, MFLE (2007)
Coming soon: mobile phone hyperlinks for the real world, Guardian (2007)
5 Essential Mobile Web Apps, Read/Write Web (2007)
Milestones
Doug Engelbart (Doug Engelbart: The Demo)
Internet Pioneers
Marc Andreessen (Wikipedia)
Ward Cunningham, (Wikipedia)
Twenty-five years of the IBM PC, BBC (2006)
The web
Origins & nature: from internet to web
End-to-End Arguments in System Design, J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark
Information Management: A Proposal, Tim Berners-Lee (1989) Stupid Network, David Isenberg
World of Ends, Searls and Weinberger (2003)
W3C: A Little History of the World Wide Web
DEC - Glimpse of the Future, 1994, YouTube (and see John Naughton's piece, The Web in 1994) So I have a blog, Tim Berners-Lee (2006)
The Internet, Stephen Fry (video) (2007)
A Short History of the Internet, by Bruce Sterling (1993)
Timeline: The history of the internet, BBC (2007) The future of the Web as seen by its creator (2007)
Read-write
Web 2.0: 'what the Web was supposed to be all along', Tim Berners-Lee interviewed (2007)
Web 2.0, Stephen Fry (video) (2007)
Participatory nature
Reading the web
Platforms
Browsers
Browser Emulator
Browser timeline
Mosaic, Wikipedia
Firefox
Opera
Opera Mobile: Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, Opera Widgets. There's a live demo available online here of Opera Mini.
Mowser
Personalisation
“…on pimping your browser”, Stephen Fry (2007)
Why you should download a Seamonkey, Stephen Fry (2007)
Widgets: eg, TypePad,
Homepages: eg, iGoogle (see Declutter iGoogle, Creating Tabs on iGoogle), PageFlakes
Useful Google Bookmarklets
iGoogle or Pageflakes vs. Bloglines, Remote Access (2007)
BookmarksURL Shortening Services: A Mini-Guide, Robin Good (2007)
RSS
2007: The Year in RSS Read/Write Web (2007)
RSS in Plain English (video) (2007)
Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom, David Parry
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources, Mashable (2007)
RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide, Mashable (2007)
Made-to-order content with Yahoo Pipes, IBM (2007)
How to use Google Reader to stay in the loop, Seth Godin
Reading RSS on Your SmartPhone (2007)
Search
20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches (2007)
The Essentials of Google Search and Advanced Operators (Google's own guides)
Google Search syntax dissected (2007)
Google Search Privacy: Personalized Search (YouTube, 2007)
Writing and communicating, online and off
Office on the Web
Web Office: 2007 Year in Review, Read/Write Web (2007)
Zoho Notebook beta launches, LifeHacker (2007)
Zoho Creator is like Microsoft Access online, LifeHacker (2007)
Google Docs in Plain English (YouTube, 2007)
Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online (Google)
Getting things done with Google Notebook (2007)
Web mail, IM, chat, etc
Posting Style, Wikipedia
Web-Based Instant Messengers: A Mini-Guide, Robin Good (2007)
Emoticons, MSN Guide What Trumps Email?, Fred Wilson (2007)
Gmail vs. Yahoo Mail: A Quick Comparison, Google Tutor (2007)
Managing spam: spambox.us, Spam, time, and you: An educational video from Gmail,
Presentations
The "Lessig Method" of presentation, Presentation Zen (2005)
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic, Presentation Zen (2005)
The Zen Aesthetic, Presentation Zen (Slideshare)
Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek (2008)
Pecha Kucha and the art of liberating constraints, Presentation Zen (2007)
Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down, Wired (2007)
powerpoint as a toy for thought, Russell Davies (2007)
powerpoint as a toy for thought: part II, Russell Davies (2007)
How NOT to use Powerpoint, (2007)
Edward Tufte on PowerPoint: 1, 2
SlideShare — sharing presentations online
MS Office: spreadsheets and word-processing - cross-curricular delivery
Moving and sharing files
A beginner's guide to BitTorrent, Lifehacker (2007)
Calendars and To-Do lists
Sync Your Mobile Phone with Google Calendar, Google Operating System (2007)
Networks and social software
Understanding Human Activities and Relationships, Ben Shneiderman (2003) (pdf)
Community standards and participation guidelines, Guardian Unlimited (2007)
Personal learning networks
Authoring: blogging and micro-blogging
Weblogs rack up a decade of posts, BBC (2007)
What is a blog?, YouTube (2007)
Blogs in Plain English, CommonCraft (2007)
Blogging in education (an introduction)
Blogging is great, Tim Berners-Lee (2006)
Blogger: How to start a blog YouTube (2007)
How To Blog: A Beginner's Blog Publishing Guide (2007)
What is a Blogroll? Why Would I Want One? (2003)
What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?, CommonCraft (2004)
The 50 best business blogs, Times (2007)
— Reader: Bloglines;
- blog publishing/editors: Blogger(Wordpress was mentioned too);
- productivity tools: Scribefire;
- ranking/linking: Technorati;
- syndication/stats: Feedburner;
- comment tracking: CoComment;
- tagcloud navigation: Zoomclouds.
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You, Wired (2008)
IBM Blogging Policy and Guidelines (pdf)
10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared, Read/Write Web (2007)
Podcasting
Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources, Mashable (2007)
FeedBurner demonstration: creating a podcast feed (2007)
Making a Podcast with Blogger and FeedBurner (2007)
Wikis
Wikis in Plain English, CommonCraft video (2007)
Tips On Developing A Wiki Community (2007)
Exploring the TiddlyWiki personal wiki, Linux Magazine (pdf, 2007)
8 Ways to use a wiki, Atlassian (2007)
Video and photo sharing sites
YouTube
The Rise and Rise of YouTube (2008)
Download Video From Popular Video Sharing Sites: A Mini-Guide, Robin Good (2007)
12 Essential Greasemonkey Hacks for YouTube, Mashable (2007)
Photosynth: hyperlinking the world's photographs, TED talk 2007 (video)
How to search Google Educational Videos, Cool Cat Teacher (2006)
VodPod
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English, CommonCraft video (2008)
Social bookmarks
7 things you should know about social bookmarking, Educause (2007, pdf); see, too, the links and comments here
Social Bookmarking in Plain English, YouTube (2007) One stop-posting bookmarklet
del.icio.us
del.icio.us About page
A beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing
Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us, H20 (Harvard)
How To Use Del.icio.us To Take Over the World, Social Computing Magazine (2007)
Tagging
David Weinberger on Everything is Miscellaneous (2007, Google Video)
Order Is in the Eye of the Tagger, David Weinberger (2007, excerpt from Everything Is Miscellaneous) Tagging is declarative programming for everybody, Jon Udell (2007)
Folksonomy Coinage and Definition, Thomas Vander Wal (2007)
The knowledge revolution
Information R/evolution, Youtube (2007)
Maps and Mapping
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World, Wired (2007)
How Google Earth [Really] Works, (2007)
Google Maps for mobile with My Location (beta) UK (YouTube, 2007)
Blackbeltjones/Work: » “Do not use while driving” (2007)
Wikipedia: critical thinking and editingWikipedia (on itself):
Researching with Wikipedia
Why Wikipedia is not so great
Why Wikipedia is so great.
How to contribute to Wikipedia (2005)
7 things you should know about Wikipedia, Educause (pdf)
Wikimindmap
Social sites
Social Software, H2O (Harvard)
Social Bookmarking in Plain English, Common Craft (2007) Socializing digitally, danah boyd (2007)
Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites, danah boyd (2006)
The Social Graph and Objects of Sociality, Joshua Porter (2007) Parents, Teenagers, Internet, Predators, Fear, Stephanie Booth (2007)
Social Networking: A Beginner's Guide To Facebook, Robin Good (2007)
An intro to Facebook (Newsweek, 2007) MappingtheWeb.com: How Facebook Is Bringing Web 2.0 Mainstream (2007)
12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally, Web Worker Daily (2007) Lessons From the Facebook Riots, Wired News: Bruce Schneier (2006)
Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama, danah boyd (2006)
Facebook blog: Platform is here (2007)
Privacy and Identity
Google is watching you, Independent (2007)
from Google Privacy (videos):
Steve Connor: They want to watch, but you can avoid them, Independent (2007)
Facebook: safe use advice
apophenia: controlling your public appearance, danah boyd (2007)
How To Surf The Net Anonymously: A Mini-Guide, Robin Good (2007)
The Implications of OpenID, Google Video (2007)
Copyright, DRM, Remix & File-sharing
teachingcopyright.org
Education 2.0: The College Student's Guide to File Sharing, Wired (2007)
The getting good with BitTorrent roundup, Lifehacker (2007)
Radiohead generation believes music is free, Telegraph (2007)
DRM:
5 short arguments against DRM, Kevin Marks (2005)
Copy Protection Is a Crime, David Weinberger (2003)
Fair but Wrong , David Weinberger (2007)
Digital rights, digital wrongs, Cory Doctorow (2007)
What is Remix Culture, H2O (Harvard)
Games
50 Greatest Game Innovations, BusinessWeek (2007)
Sharkrunners (from area/code)
Bloxorz (Clive Thompson)
Virtual Worlds
IBM Research | IBM Virtual World Guidelines
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