Comments on: Connecting students with real-world experts http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Connecting learners with outside experts and each other http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-31141 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Connecting learners with outside experts and each other Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:04:54 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-31141 [...] David Truss, inspired in part by Vicki Davis’ post “The Future Wave of School Volunteerism: Be the Textbook” and my post and podcast on “Connecting students with real-world experts” inspired by Texas Teacher Rachael Tucker, has created Fieldfindr: A space where teachers can meet global citizens who have skills that they are willing to contribute to a class. The site is a wiki-based mock-up of an idea (shared by several) to create a virtual portal to connect classroom learners with outside experts. In his post “Portal Needed to Connect Classrooms to the World: Global Citizens can Share Talents and Skills with Students,” David explains his vision of the portal as a synthesis of social networking and web 2.0 tagging aggregation sites: The site could be sort of a combination of Warlick’s HitchHikr and MySpace or Facebook. (In a way it is more of a matchmaker site.) You can sign up and log in as a teacher, or as a willing contributer (Volunteer) in your field of interest. Basically Volunteers create a profile listing talents and skills. Then they set up a time-line of when they would be interested in helping with, or presenting to, a class. Then teachers can contact volunteers who have profiles of interest. There could be an opportunity for volunteers to contact teachers too, but I think this should be done through a contact page like this, rather than by direct e-mail. [...] [...] David Truss, inspired in part by Vicki Davis’ post “The Future Wave of School Volunteerism: Be the Textbook” and my post and podcast on “Connecting students with real-world experts” inspired by Texas Teacher Rachael Tucker, has created Fieldfindr: A space where teachers can meet global citizens who have skills that they are willing to contribute to a class. The site is a wiki-based mock-up of an idea (shared by several) to create a virtual portal to connect classroom learners with outside experts. In his post “Portal Needed to Connect Classrooms to the World: Global Citizens can Share Talents and Skills with Students,” David explains his vision of the portal as a synthesis of social networking and web 2.0 tagging aggregation sites: The site could be sort of a combination of Warlick’s HitchHikr and MySpace or Facebook. (In a way it is more of a matchmaker site.) You can sign up and log in as a teacher, or as a willing contributer (Volunteer) in your field of interest. Basically Volunteers create a profile listing talents and skills. Then they set up a time-line of when they would be interested in helping with, or presenting to, a class. Then teachers can contact volunteers who have profiles of interest. There could be an opportunity for volunteers to contact teachers too, but I think this should be done through a contact page like this, rather than by direct e-mail. [...]

]]> By: Wesley Fryer http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-31116 Wesley Fryer Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:08:21 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-31116 Thanks for that link Brian, I had read about you working on getting the equipment for that project early in the year but hadn't seen the video or heard the update. GREAT WORK! David, nice work on the mock-up. I think this should be built? Who will take this great idea and run with it?! Thanks for that link Brian, I had read about you working on getting the equipment for that project early in the year but hadn’t seen the video or heard the update. GREAT WORK! David, nice work on the mock-up. I think this should be built? Who will take this great idea and run with it?!

]]> By: David Truss http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-31100 David Truss Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:52:47 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-31100 Wesley, I remember one of your posts that said you preferred comments to e-mail, so I am posting here. After stewing over the idea of a portal for some time now, the combination of Vicki's post, and yours here, inspired me to write about and create a mock-up of a dedicated portal: http://fieldfindr.wikispaces.com/ I am a digital immigrant that took 25 min. just to figure out how to do the table of contents... there has to be some tech savvy educators out there that can make a 'real' portal a reality! Dave. Wesley,
I remember one of your posts that said you preferred comments to e-mail, so I am posting here.
After stewing over the idea of a portal for some time now, the combination of Vicki’s post, and yours here, inspired me to write about and create a mock-up of a dedicated portal:
http://fieldfindr.wikispaces.com/
I am a digital immigrant that took 25 min. just to figure out how to do the table of contents… there has to be some tech savvy educators out there that can make a ‘real’ portal a reality!
Dave.

]]> By: Vicki Davis http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-30850 Vicki Davis Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:46:14 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-30850 Of course, we can start connecting now with those we know and trust who are located around the country. Yes, and we do need a "massive" database of educators to be matched for flat classroom type projects AND for resources. Otherwise, only the "connected" educators will be able to do such things. Either that or we can help everyone "connect" and learn to use these tools. Thank you for noticing! Of course, we can start connecting now with those we know and trust who are located around the country. Yes, and we do need a “massive” database of educators to be matched for flat classroom type projects AND for resources. Otherwise, only the “connected” educators will be able to do such things. Either that or we can help everyone “connect” and learn to use these tools.

Thank you for noticing!

]]> By: Brian Crosby http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-30847 Brian Crosby Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:00:25 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/17/connecting-students-with-real-world-experts/#comment-30847 Wes have you seen how we connect and dialog using Skype yet? http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=196 Wes have you seen how we connect and dialog using Skype yet?

http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=196

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