Mindy Faber's Posts - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T14:38:46ZMindy Faberhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mindyfaberhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1949903062?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=mindyfaber&xn_auth=noGoogle My Maps has Serious Educational Potentialtag:www.classroom20.com,2007-08-24:649749:BlogPost:440912007-08-24T16:13:22.000ZMindy Faberhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mindyfaber
I am absolutely mad about Google MyMaps. Check out the collectively authored map my YouthLAB groups did in Chicago and Barbados at www.youthlab.net! They researched the slave routes, the Barbados youth located the African countries and regions where their ancestors came from and placemarked those. They even added in diary journal entries from enslaved passengers across the Middle Passage. <br></br><br></br>Then they incorporated their own family migrations, located their neighborhoods, embedded photos…
I am absolutely mad about Google MyMaps. Check out the collectively authored map my YouthLAB groups did in Chicago and Barbados at www.youthlab.net! They researched the slave routes, the Barbados youth located the African countries and regions where their ancestors came from and placemarked those. They even added in diary journal entries from enslaved passengers across the Middle Passage. <br/><br/>Then they incorporated their own family migrations, located their neighborhoods, embedded photos and videos they made and mapped out future travel dreams.<br/><br/>Even though youthLAB is over they can add to the map whenever they want.<br/><br/>Now one of the youth who learned this tool had the idea to create a map of environmental racism - showing how toxics are disproportionately located in low income communities of color. Open Youth Networks (my organization) is training the youth groups there how to overlay their GIS data into Google Earth maps while creating multimedia map mashups of their community assets and toxins tours.
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My head is spinning with so many applications for this tool.<br />
<br/><br/>The tool is so cool and motivating to use, I see students becoming avid researchers.<br/>
<br/><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&om=1&msa=0&msid=103647195530581788559.00043671425c324f90bcc&ll=20.303418,-24.609375&spn=69.988352,119.53125&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left;font-size:small">View Larger Map</a>YouthLAB Launches and You Are Invited to Participatetag:www.classroom20.com,2007-08-01:649749:BlogPost:350932007-08-01T22:00:04.000ZMindy Faberhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mindyfaber
Beginning July 23rd, I am launching YouthLAB and would love for you to check in at our site which is www.youthlab.net. We are doing online collaborative cinema and global exchange. I think it contributes to the growing knowledge about the power of WEB 2.0 to spark learning, civic engagement and cross-cultural understanding using their own digital native cultures.<br></br><br></br>Please read more below and check in to the site - www.youthlab.net<br></br><br></br> <i>We are beginning to learn what it means to…</i>
Beginning July 23rd, I am launching YouthLAB and would love for you to check in at our site which is www.youthlab.net. We are doing online collaborative cinema and global exchange. I think it contributes to the growing knowledge about the power of WEB 2.0 to spark learning, civic engagement and cross-cultural understanding using their own digital native cultures.<br/><br/>Please read more below and check in to the site - www.youthlab.net<br/><br/> <i>We are beginning to learn what it means to have social production of the public sphere.</i> Yochai Benkler, Yale University<br/><br/>What: YouthLAB (Listening Across Borders) is a unique summer institute that brings together 23 young people from Chicago and Barbados (African-American, Bajan, White, Latino, Muslim, and multiracial) in a virtual contact zone to create a collaborative and participatory media project on the living legacies of slavery. It is an open, transparent on-line community-based classroom and laboratory for youth where new understandings and actions are formed through the construction of media and discussion.<br/><br/>How: Through our Wordpress site (www.youthlab.net) YouthLAB participants will create and share digital content and engage in online chats and interpretive discussions.The website also links to our multimedia projects on Flickr, Youtube, Motionbox and GoogleMy Maps as well as our curricular resources through Del.icio.us. Essentially you can track the development of the project from your computer at home or at work on a daily basis!<br/><br/>When: Monday July 23rd through August 3rd! Daily youth in the two countries will post videos, photos, maps and blogs.<br/><br/>How You Can Be Involved: Go to the site (www.youthlab.net) YouthLAB participants are inviting you to be an ALLY for YouthLAB. You can contribute by posting comments, constructive feedback, friend sourcing, donating to our ChipIn project or just listening in. If something moves you, we want to know about it. If you have questions, we would like to answer them. If you want to write about or study what we are doing – great!<br/><br/>WHY THIS EXCHANGE?<br/>Barbados and the US are both countries politically, economically and culturally formed through the unconscionable and forced migration and enslavement of millions of Africans between the 16-19th centuries. In this year, 2007, 200 years after Britain’s abolition of the transatlantic slave trade – we aim to contribute our own stories to the grand narrative – one rooted within our collective pasts but endeavoring to “dream inside history” – spurring actions to ensure a more humanitarian and democratic future. <br/><br/>OUR LONG TERM GOAL: To learn how to use participatory media, art and technology to listen across borders and create new communities of action and change around issues affecting our lives. <br/><br/>MORE INFO: Contact Mindy Faber (mindyfaber@comcast.net or on ning.com group Classroom 2.0, thru www.youthlab.net or www.openyouthnetworks.org)<br/><br/>Working with Youth Right Now in Barbados in Wb 2.0tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-07-10:649749:BlogPost:326982007-07-10T11:47:59.000ZMindy Faberhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mindyfaber
Check out what youth in Barbados are posting on our website www.youthlab.net as we create videos, google maps and digital photos on the living legacies of slavery. You can also begin to see their Flickr photos.<br/>
Check out what youth in Barbados are posting on our website www.youthlab.net as we create videos, google maps and digital photos on the living legacies of slavery. You can also begin to see their Flickr photos.<br/>A Network of Peers - How Cool!tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-07-05:649749:BlogPost:318712007-07-05T17:58:31.000ZMindy Faberhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mindyfaber
I just joined Ning yesterday and am already loving it. i feel like I am connecting immediately with smart and fascinating people who are passionate about the same things I am - youth, teaching, technology and making the world a better place! It's so energizing to connect with all of you.<br></br><br></br>In a few days I will be in Barbados working with youth there. We will be posting to our blog at www.youthlab.net beginning on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. i hope you can check it out. Youth LAB…
I just joined Ning yesterday and am already loving it. i feel like I am connecting immediately with smart and fascinating people who are passionate about the same things I am - youth, teaching, technology and making the world a better place! It's so energizing to connect with all of you.<br/><br/>In a few days I will be in Barbados working with youth there. We will be posting to our blog at www.youthlab.net beginning on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. i hope you can check it out. Youth LAB (Listening Across Borders) continues all summer with youth from Chicago and Barbados in conversation about the legacies of slavery and the hopes for a more future equitable and just world.<br/><br/>Also, I posted a video made by one of my students to Classroom 2.0 called The Hidden Cost of Cashmere. Skip posted some fascinating comments about it so I thought I would share it to see what other 's have to say. My student - especially - is so curious to know how people respond to this video. It is exactly 3 minutes long.<br/><br/>Thanks for everything.<br/><br/>Using Google My Maps to Merge Past, Present and Futuretag:www.classroom20.com,2007-07-04:649749:BlogPost:315732007-07-04T13:28:42.000ZMindy Faberhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mindyfaber
In a few days I head to Barbados where my colleague Mela Berger and I will train eight youth how to use digital tools and web 2.0. The focus of the work they produce is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade during the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition. <br></br><br></br>Among many of the tools they will be learning, I am particularly excited about using Google My maps to trace the Middle Passage and other routes that brought slaves to Barbados and then on to other sites in the Caribbean,…
In a few days I head to Barbados where my colleague Mela Berger and I will train eight youth how to use digital tools and web 2.0. The focus of the work they produce is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade during the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition. <br/><br/>Among many of the tools they will be learning, I am particularly excited about using Google My maps to trace the Middle Passage and other routes that brought slaves to Barbados and then on to other sites in the Caribbean, South America and Charleston. They will be able to search for photos and embed these into their maps and even write descriptions or reflections accompanying various points in the journey. Then the youth will create their own personal journey maps to overlay on tops of the slave routes. They can use digital cameras to document this process in the present or create migration maps of their families from the past. Lastly, they create placemarkers for their future lives - ten years down the road. They can, as Paulo Freire says, "dream inside history."<br/><br/>I wonder if any one else out there has experimented with My Maps and can offer advice, warnings, tips, etc.<br/><br/>You can see all of these projects develop as they are created online at www.youthlab.net beginning July 23.<br/>