20100221


 * February 21, 2010** (carried forward from Feb. 7, 2010 which was cancelled for the Super Bowl)


 * Show #:** **121**


 * GUEST:** Rushton Hurley, NextVista.org


 * SKYPE:** (rushtonh)

Sharon (eebee1) Cheri (drctedd) Peggy (pgeorge1)
 * Show Host Skype Names:**


 * WOWS to be delicioused:**

Our delicious tag for tonight: (use this format-year,month,date-no spaces: wow2_20090324) wow2_20100221


 * Sharon: http://www.hotdocslibrary.ca/dsr/#/en/home Hot Docs from Canada's National Film Board, One-to-One Laptops study: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/02/16/11-programs-only-as-good-as-their-teachers/

Cheri:**
 * http://www.sweetsearch.com/ - search engine for students - Every website in SweetSearch has been evaluated by their research experts. Links for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.
 * http://snipurl.com/udwku - blog post by John Sowash from Michigan on //Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom's Taxonomy//. How to ask test and knowledge questions that disallow students from Googling the answer. I only wish he had used the newest version of Bloom that includes Create.
 * http://www.quarkbase.com/ - information about websites - check out any website; even the popular and bad taste websites: Google and MartinLutherKing.org

Kids are indeed heroes and **//each one has the power to change the world.//** The Kids Are Heroes™ web site is dedicated to them. This site is designed to inspire your children to become involved in the act of giving by learning from other kid heroes who are doing AMAZING things. To see how kids are making a huge difference, and to see how YOU can become a hero, click on " [|Meet the] Heroes ". Join the discussion! Give feedback and shout-outs to heroes in our new "[|KAH Café] " section. (2) @http://mashable.com/2009/09/08/ivy-bean World's oldest online user! Follow her on Twitter or Facebook: @http://twitter.com/ivybean104  (4,914 Following  54,807 Followers)  There are lots of interesting people to follow on Twitter, but few as novel as @IvyBean104, who is celebrating her 104th birthday today. (written 9/8/09) While we can’t confirm if she’s Twitter’s oldest user, CNN has some more information on Bean, who resides in Bradford, England and is also active on Facebook, where she has reached the site’s 5,000 friend limit. On Twitter,  she currently has 54,781 followers – up significantly from the few hundred she had when she first tried out the service back in May. Bean’s tweets are fairly typical of your average Twitter user, with updates about the TV shows she’s watching, TwitPics, the weather, and activities going on at the care home she resides in. Meanwhile, if this all seems a bit hard to believe, check out the video below where Bean shows her Twitter use to the world: CRSTE Cyberconference for next couple of weeks-free, online in Elluminate: http://crste.org/
 * Peggy:** (1) @http://www.kidsareheroes.com/Kids Are Heroes Follow on Twitter: []

**Rushton's Sites:**

With the resources of the library available for free to anyone at any time, students will be in a good position to learn when they are most ready to do so. For teachers, the available videos can be used in the classroom to generate discussion, or even when planning lessons to generate ideas. Having a simple system for watching others’ work will strengthen professional development, which is one of NextVista.org’s goals. One goal of the Global Views collection is to help students better understand the wondrous variety around the planet. This is only the start, though, as these videos can also be used to generate discussions between groups in e-mail or blog exchanges. Next Vista wants this collection to help young people understand how truly close they are to their international peers. The hope is that students who wonder about their own value will see what the people in these videos do and realize that those are things they are capable of doing, too. Students might encounter these videos as writing prompts, could produce one themselves as part of a project, or even choose to watch one just to be reminded that there are indeed good people out there.
 * Website** http://www.nextvista.org
 * Other: NextVista partner:** http://freshbrain.org/
 * Light Bulbs:** http://www.nextvista.org/collection-list-light-bulbs/
 * Global Views:** http://www.nextvista.org/collection-list-global-views/
 * Seeing Service:** http://www.nextvista.org/collection-list-seeing-service/

1) Tell us about yourself: What are you doing these days? 2) For those who may not know about NextVista can you provide a brief overview of what it is including your vision for it? 3) What has happened with NextVista since you were last on WOW in Nov. 2008? What are some of your new projects? Tell us about your partnership with FreshBrain.org and your Careers videos. 4) Are there any specific videos contributed by students that you'd like to highlight on your site? How are teachers using these videos in their classrooms? 5) Tell us about how you are beginning to use LearnCentral as a place for educators to share how they are implementing video projects in their classrooms/schools. 6) How are you spreading the word about NextVista and how can people get involved with the projects and submit student videos? What are the rules for submitting videos? Give us your "best pitch" for why video projects are so important for teachers to incorporate into their curriculum. 7) Do you recommend the use of flip video cameras and can you share any examples of some great videos students have created using flip cams? 8) Where are you presenting in the next 6 months? Presenting at CUE? Information?? topics/streaming? **CONCLUDE WITH WOWS OF WEEK
 * Questions for Rushton: