This document provides a lightning-fast introduction to various online tools that teachers and students can use in and out of the classroom, including blogs, RSS feeds, vlogs, wikis, podcasting, Flickr, social bookmarking, and more. It discusses what each tool is, provides examples of how they are used, and encourages reflection on how these emerging technologies could be implemented in the classroom.

2. “ Children are native to cyberspace, and we, as adults, are immigrants.” - Douglas Rushkoff

3. Cool Tools--- This will be a lightning fast introduction to a selection of powerful online tools that teachers and students can use in and out of the classroom.

4. Goal: to overwhelm you a bit!

5. Tapped In http://www.tappedin.org

6. What is a Blog? Will Richardson’s video http://campus.belmont.edu/chenowit/dragonstale/WebLoggingSmall.mov A blog (or weblog ) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media , blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. A typical blog combines text, images , and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

7. Blogging Begins with Reading Technorati Google blog search Blogdigger

8. RSS – Making it Simple! There are many introductions to RSS available on the Internet. Blog Lines What does it look like? Add me: http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com

9. Where Can You Blog? Personal Blogging Websites Free Sites: Blogger Edublogs Non-free Sites: TypePad Sheryl’s Blog Teacher or Community Sites Allow a teacher or parent to set up a number of individual blogs under a single website. A little more difficult to set up, but one of the advantages of these community sites is that there are often controls or restrictions for the administrator: Free Sites: Classblogmeister created by David Warlick Gaggle free email and blog hosting http://www.takingitglobal.org / - lots of social networking tools https://www.imbee.com/ Secure Social Networking and Blogging More How to: http://abpc.wikispaces.com/+Basic+Blogs

10. Examples of Blogs? Elementary Blogs Blooming Bloggers PPT Anne Davis’ WebQuest Zach’s Podcast on blogging Kathy Cassidy- First Grade Allanah King- Nelson

11. Examples of Blogs? Secondary Blogs Erik Myers Darren Kuropatwa Bud Hunt ABPC 21 st Century Fellows

12. How Can I Find Out More? Support Blogging.com (High school teacher) Vicki Davis writes some helps for beginning bloggers: 10 Habits of bloggers that win How and why beginners ( newbies ) should blog . How to add tags to your blog . Setting Up a blog (Other Teachers) Teachers Teaching Teachers Teaching With Blogs Learn About Blogging in Education ABPC WIKI Policies

13. What ideas do you have so far for ways you could use blogs? Either to further your own professional development and personal learning or with students?

14. Vlog A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. Andy Vidblogger directory Alan Marco Torres

15. Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together! The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki which is from the native language of Hawaii where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast"! http://tuanz.wikispaces.com Let’s create one

16. Podcasting Do I need to have an iPod? Content to go The three steps... 1 - record 2 - edit(?) 3 - publish Podomatic (site) Example: Jane How to- From a Ala. Teacher

17. Flickr Mappr Flickr Tools Example

18. Social Bookmarking del.icio.us Technorati

19. What concerns, questions, reactions do you have so far about using these emerging technologies in your classroom? Reflect