STETS Social Networking Workshop

Slide 1: Free & Easy: Cool Social Networking Tools for the Classroom MaryAnn Karre (with thanks to Beth Sullivan) October , 2007 STETS Conference, Owego Apalachin Middle School

Slide 2: Goals: Present a number of free, easy to use  tools and their applications for education  Demonstrate each example  Outline educational uses  Get it done in one hour  Avoid overwhelming  Show you where to go for more!

Slide 3: What is the Web 2.0? Not the same old WWW  Read / Write web  Culture of participation  Collaboration the key 

Slide 4: Why bother? Not the same old safe old  “But everybody is doing it!”  Welcome to the world  Bring some excitement to the  class!! Accountability to new  audience

Slide 5: Precautions Firewalls  Walled areas  Editing  Choose tools wisely  Teach Netiquette  And safety 

Slide 6: Some Web 2.0 Examples: Blogging and vlogging  RSS feeds and  aggregators Podcasting  Wikis  VOIP - Skype  Social Bookmarking –  favorites sharing Photoblogs - Flickr  Folksonomy – “Tagging”  …..new ones every day!! 

Slide 7: Start with Social Bookmarking Real power of Read/Write Web (Will Richardson)   Store and share – collaborative process 10 billion pages of info on Web – or more??  Becomes more difficult to locate info  More types of info available  Can retrieve favorites from any computer with  Internet access

Slide 8: Social Bookmarking Save favorites easily  Share with others – either public or  private Share others’ bookmarks  Locate by topic or user  Access limitless number of links, videos  books, photos similar to your favorites Can share sites, books, music, photos,  movies – more!

Slide 9: Bookmarking depends on Folksonomy Otherwise know as “Tagging”   New taxonomy – replace librarians??  Better than indexing – users make own tags – common language  Flexible and dynamic – not static  Used with websites, documents, photos, presentations, videos – anything searchable!

Slide 10: Where do I find Social Bookmarks? Furl.net  Saves snapshot of  page Archives page!  Can sort into topic  folders Locate other users with  common interests  Subscribe to other users’ Furl folder!  Use RSS or email to subscribe

Slide 11: Where can I find Social Bookmarks? Del.ici.ous  Saves links, not content  Simpler than Furl  Tag is most important –  comments not searchable Can link to tags –  del.icio.us/tag/yourtag No email required to  register

Slide 12: Want more? 43Things.com – what do you want to do with your life?  Buddy Marks – store and share bookmarks  De.lirio.us – like Del.icio.us  Digg – news and videos  Shelfari – share books  LibraryThing – catalog your books and share  Reader2 – share books, movies and more  Last.fm – music tagging  Technorati – navigate blog posts  BlinkList – tag sites and list on personal Blink website  Multipost Bookmarklet Tool – tag to many sites at once  Wists – Social shopping! 

Slide 13: How do I use Social Bookmarks? Assign readings   Track student research  Build database with students  Share with colleagues  Research with other schools  Send interesting links through RSS feeds  Professional development

Slide 14: Social Bookmarking – Further reading Social BookMarking  Faceoff – comparison (2006) Education World - Sites  to see Common Craft Show –  cool and easy video

Slide 15: “A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.” Wikipedia (Think FaceBook, MySpace and others!)

Slide 16: • Staff development • Student engagement • Audience • Comments and feedback • Keep families informed • Connect with the world

Slide 17: Google blogspot – easy to use • • Think.com – good for elementary students • 21classes.com – educational blogs • Squarespace • Wordpress

Slide 18: Compare Blogs http://www.weblogmatrix.org/ 

Slide 20: A wiki is an online collaboration tool that allows multiple users to edit and view changes quickly. (Wiki Wiki means = Quickly in Hawaiian)

Slide 21: Collaboration • OM Teams • Link Lists • Grant Writing • Literature Circles • Reports • KWL’s • Vocabulary Share lesson plans

Slide 23: “(iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The \"pod\" in podcast was coined from \"iPod,\" the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are mostly verbal, they may contain music.” TechWeb

Slide 24: To podcast, you need: Computer • • Microphone • Software – Audacity is free and works well • Easypodcast.com • Someplace to put your podcast on the web

Slide 25: • Audience – share reports and performances • Review – record lesson for absentees • Reports – more exciting than paper • Interviews • Homework Help – Mike Breed’s • Classroom centers

Slide 26: Connect your classroom with the world – for free!!

Slide 27: Share PHOTOS! PhotoBlogging   Uses tags to sort and share  Discuss and comment  Send photos to aggregator, Weblog or Webpage

Slide 28: Where can Photo Share? Flickr.com   Free up to 20MB – 100 images/month  Need valid email  Can restrict access  Easy to upload – with or without email  Add notes to parts of images!  Create albums  Create slide shows  More current than media

Slide 29: Have fun! GeoBloggers – combines Flickr and   Google Maps Great Flickr Tools Collection   More Flickr Tools – including soduku!  FlickrReplacr Bookmarklet – replace words with images from Flickr

Slide 30: How can I use PhotoSharing? Find images to supplement lessons  Annotate historical photos uploaded from other  sources Photo “field trips”  Writing prompts (Flicktion)  Illustrate digital stories or poetry (“Chicago”,  Sandburg) “Remix” using Paint or photoediting tools  Leave annotations blank as test  Share field trip and class activity photos with parents  Share discussions about photos – subscribe to RSS  feed

Slide 31: Too much to keep up with????

Slide 32: RSS to the RESCUE!!! Really Simple Syndication  Uses Aggregator to tame  avalanche of information Like using Netflix vs going  to video store “subscribe” to feeds from  blogs, wikis, podcasts,Flickr, del.icio.us, news sources, stores……

Slide 33: Where can I find RSS feeds? Bloglines   feedreader  GoogleReader  NewsGator  My Yahoo

Slide 34: Want to read more about RSS? AWESOME simple  video explaining RSS and how to start! 50+ Ideas for Teachers  – with written instructions

Slide 35: Use RSS in the classroom: Monitor student blogs   Keep up with news, weather, sports  Professional development  Website searches  Monitor others’ Del.icio.us lists  Keep research up-to-the-minute

Slide 36: What to expect in the future?? Personally-tailored news stories delivered  instantly – No more news services  Personal shopping – Amazon suggests purchases according to prior choices  Second Life – virtual interaction  Education through interactive gaming?

Slide 37: In case you want more…. WebWare  Top 100 sites Go2Web2.0  Slideshare  Common Craft Show video  !!

Slide 38: Find this presentation… http://mannlibrary. blogspot.com