2. Pre-class Activities
Create accounts for the following:
oSymbaloo: http://www.symbaloo.com/
oSlideShare: www.slideshare.net
oPinterest: http://pinterest.com
oDiigo: http://www.diigo.com/
oAuthorstream: www.authorstream.com/
oVoicethread: www.voicethread.com
3. Pre-class Activities
Choose one of these sites to explore now and
present to us later in class.
oSymbaloo http://www.symbaloo.com/
oSlideShare www.slideshare.net
oPinterest http://pinterest.com
oAuthorstream www.authorstream.com/
oVoicethread: www.voicethread.com
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4. EDU 505
Week 6 Agenda
Software Accounts
Review Week 5
New Software-Diigo, Blog
Presentations
Homework for Aug 11
9. Blogging
Functions as online journal or discussion board
Use for discussion and critiques of readings or
problems
Not effective for recall-type questions as
students will have similar answers and may
easily copy each other
10. Weebly's Blog
Can be used as a Discussion Board
Allows you to review student
posts/comments before they are
published
Moderating: Pros/Cons
Posts can come through your email for
easy viewing and grading (notification)
11. Homework, Part I
Create list of 7 Links on Delicious or Diigo
7 professional/teacher use
Annotate with 2-3 sentence descriptions
Embed on Weebly blog page.
Create Weebly blog post or prompt with 3
mock answers
Answer as “A”, “B” and “C” level student OR 3
different parents
12. Homework, Part II
Discussion Board Post: Bloggers
Professional Reading Journal Post