Improving Your Web Life Using social media to improve communications & leadership

Why Are You Here? The Web Sent You -- Web 2.0, that is .

What is Social Media? RSS Feeds & Alerts Social Bookmarking (Digg, Delicious, etc.) Social Networking (Facebook, Nings, Wikis) Blogs/eNewsletters Web 2.0 Tools and Apps

RSS Feeds & Alerts

Social Bookmarking (Digg, Delicious, etc.)

Social Networking (Facebook, Nings, Wikis)

Blogs/eNewsletters

Web 2.0 Tools and Apps

Work more efficiently , with less paper and fewer email attachments Work collaboratively rather than in isolation Control your own message. An alternative to print media in getting the word out. Build a personal learning network What Will Social Media Do for Me?

Work more efficiently , with less paper and fewer email attachments

Work collaboratively rather than in isolation

Control your own message. An alternative to print media in getting the word out.

Build a personal learning network

Your Toolbox: Firefox

Make Your Life Easier: RSS Feeds and Alerts

RSS: Start Your Day with iGoogle RSS feeds into your own customized home page. Read your favorite newspapers and blogs. Get the latest news -- you choose. Tabbed categories -- News, Education News, etc. Similar services -- pageflakes, bloglines, etc. Other tools -- Google Alerts, Yahoo alerts

RSS feeds into your own customized home page.

Read your favorite newspapers and blogs.

Get the latest news -- you choose.

Tabbed categories -- News, Education News, etc.

Similar services -- pageflakes, bloglines, etc.

Other tools -- Google Alerts, Yahoo alerts

Online Document Services --Google Docs

Online Document Services Google Docs -- create docs with Word, Excel, Powerpoint. All web-based and private unless you decide to share, publish or email. This Powerpoint presentation was created with Google Docs. Helipad -- online document and notes tool Writewith -- cooperative document editing Scribus.net -- creates documents

Google Docs -- create docs with Word, Excel, Powerpoint. All web-based and private unless you decide to share, publish or email. This Powerpoint presentation was created with Google Docs. Helipad -- online document and notes tool Writewith -- cooperative document editing Scribus.net -- creates documents

What's Social Bookmarking (and why should I care) ? Promotes you and your district. Tools to store & share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. Find other people who have interesting bookmarks & add their links to your collection. See how many people have chosen to remember a link -- helps you to find useful things. Access from any computer -- home, work, Antarctica.

Promotes you and your district.

Tools to store & share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser.

Find other people who have interesting bookmarks & add their links to your collection.

See how many people have chosen to remember a link -- helps you to find useful things.

Access from any computer -- home, work, Antarctica.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English Digg, Delicious , Stumbleupon , Mixx, Reddit, Technorati, etc. Let's Get Social...

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Digg, Delicious , Stumbleupon , Mixx, Reddit, Technorati, etc.

The 30 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Networking & Collaboration Nings Wikis Facebook LinkedIn (they have added groups)

Nings

Wikis

Facebook

LinkedIn (they have added groups)

What's a Ning? Classroom 2.0 18,000 members (ask to have ads removed) SmartBoard Revolution -- 1,061 members

Classroom 2.0

18,000 members

(ask to have ads removed)

SmartBoard Revolution -- 1,061 members

The K-3 Teachers Zone -- 548 members English Companion -- 3,043 members

The K-3 Teachers Zone -- 548 members

Wikis Free Wiki Platforms: www.pbwiki.com www.wikispaces.com www.wetpaint.com Wikis: web pages that can be easily edited, connected to each other through keywords and feature subscribable content via RSS feeds, which enable individuals to subscribe & receive notification whenever a change has been made to the content.

Free Wiki Platforms:

www.pbwiki.com

www.wikispaces.com

www.wetpaint.com

Wikis: web pages that can be easily edited, connected to each other through keywords and feature subscribable content via RSS feeds, which enable individuals to subscribe & receive notification whenever a change has been made to the content.

Collective history -- discussions, documents shared, decisions reached Agenda planning -- Move meeting agendas from e-mail to wikis. If items need to be added, can be put into the wiki before meeting starts Aggregating team info -- Record day-to-day decisions and aggregate information from multiple team members, i.e.: a superintendent’s cabinet. Collaborative documents -- When sending out a memo to principals or staff, use a wiki to develop the doc. Instead of e-mailing for everyone to review, place it on the wiki. Grant planning and writing -- Collaboratively develop grant application involving multiple staff members. What's a Wiki Good For?

Collective history -- discussions, documents shared, decisions reached

Agenda planning -- Move meeting agendas from e-mail to wikis. If items need to be added, can be put into the wiki before meeting starts

Aggregating team info -- Record day-to-day decisions and aggregate information from multiple team members, i.e.: a superintendent’s cabinet.

Collaborative documents -- When sending out a memo to principals or staff, use a wiki to develop the doc. Instead of e-mailing for everyone to review, place it on the wiki.

Grant planning and writing -- Collaboratively develop grant application involving multiple staff members.

Wiki Samples New Orleans Wiki -- created as a communications tool after Hurricane Katrina Lee County Schools Wiki . North Carolina. Left hand navigation provides plenty of links to other pages submitted by teachers, by grade level, by the technology director.

Who's on Facebook? Durham, NC, Public Schools American School Board Journal President Barack Obama Oprah Winfrey Stanford University Carnegie-Mellon University The New York Times NYS Association of Foreign Language Teachers The American Red Cross Autism Speaks National School PR Association

Durham, NC, Public Schools

American School Board Journal

President Barack Obama

Oprah Winfrey

Stanford University

Carnegie-Mellon University

The New York Times

NYS Association of Foreign Language Teachers

The American Red Cross

Autism Speaks

National School PR Association

JFK School of Government at Harvard School District of Janesville, Wis.

JFK School of Government at Harvard

Other Professional Networking Tools LinkedIn -- 2.3 million monthly visitors, 26 million users Twitter -- 8 million users Edmodo -- Twitter for Educators VisualCV

LinkedIn -- 2.3 million monthly visitors, 26 million users

Twitter -- 8 million users

Edmodo -- Twitter for Educators

VisualCV

Many Voices on Twitter A Twitter story created by 140 Elementary and Middle School Students Across the Globe ManyVoices Wiki

MarketWire's Social Media 2.0 PRX 2.0 ($219 per release) Letterpop.com (free) Issuu (free-post any print document, email, embed, etc.) Online Press Releases & Other Tools

MarketWire's Social Media 2.0

PRX 2.0 ($219 per release)

Letterpop.com (free)

Issuu (free-post any print document, email, embed, etc.)

The ShareThis Button Code <SCRIPT src=&quot;http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=d34a4770-0cb0-4e60-a469-2bbceffa8d05&quot; type=text/javascript></SCRIPT> </P></STRONG> How it's used.

<SCRIPT src=&quot;http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=d34a4770-0cb0-4e60-a469-2bbceffa8d05&quot; type=text/javascript></SCRIPT> </P></STRONG>

How it's used.

eNewsletters & Blogs Free Blog Platforms: classblogmeister.com : gated blogging tool Edublogs -- Wordpress blog tool for educators Wordpress blogging platform Blogger -- Google blogging platform Bedford, NH Principal's Blog Supt's Blog Platte County, Wyoming Bryan, Tex, Blog w/RSS feed and social bookmarks

Free Blog Platforms:

classblogmeister.com : gated blogging tool

Edublogs -- Wordpress blog tool for educators

Wordpress blogging platform

Blogger -- Google blogging platform

Bedford, NH Principal's Blog

Supt's Blog Platte County, Wyoming

Bryan, Tex, Blog w/RSS feed and social bookmarks

Blog of the headmaster of the private Summit School

Maggie Skau's blog in New Rochelle Superintendent's Blog , Bedford, NH

A Very Long Web 2.0 and Social Bookmarking Resource List The Complete Web 2.0 Directory Letterpop (create newsletters for free. A bit clunky.) Snipshot (edit your photos online/alternative to Photoshop) A-Z Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms Google Docs Slideshare Westchester School PR Wiki NSPRA Facebook Page Kansas State University's Mediated Cultures Website FreeDictionary BigThink eSchoolNews Educator Resource Centers Grandview Elementary School Library Blog -- in East Ramapo

The Complete Web 2.0 Directory

Letterpop (create newsletters for free. A bit clunky.)

Snipshot (edit your photos online/alternative to Photoshop)

A-Z Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms Google Docs

Slideshare

Westchester School PR Wiki

NSPRA Facebook Page

Kansas State University's Mediated Cultures Website

FreeDictionary

BigThink

eSchoolNews Educator Resource Centers

Grandview Elementary School Library Blog -- in East Ramapo

The Common Craft Show (video how-tos) Wetpaint Wikis Wikispaces Writewith.com (group writing/editing) Evernote (clipping favorite websites and saving online) Gramlee (site that checks your grammar--not free) Great explanation of Nings by a Boston teacher Save the Words -- Vocabulary builder No Future Left Behind on YouTube -- Suffern Middle School The FischBowl -- blog from Arapahoe HS all about classroom tech The Connected Classroom Wiki Piconote -- online note-taking FixRedEyes -- fix red eye on photos online Walled Garden -- wiki about setting up Web 2.0 apps on district servers

The Common Craft Show (video how-tos)

Wetpaint Wikis

Wikispaces

Writewith.com (group writing/editing)

Evernote (clipping favorite websites and saving online)

Gramlee (site that checks your grammar--not free)

Great explanation of Nings by a Boston teacher

Save the Words -- Vocabulary builder

No Future Left Behind on YouTube -- Suffern Middle School

The FischBowl -- blog from Arapahoe HS all about classroom tech

The Connected Classroom Wiki

Piconote -- online note-taking

FixRedEyes -- fix red eye on photos online

Walled Garden -- wiki about setting up Web 2.0 apps on district servers

Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter Great video...

Wikis in Plain English--A How-to

A Vision of Students Today -- from Kansas State U.

The Internet has a Face -- Student video about YouTube vloggers

This Presentation available online at Slideshare Evelyn McCormack SWBOCES Public Information Coordinator Email: evelyn.mccormack@gmail.com Facebook LinkedIn Blog :School Communications 2.0