This document provides instructions for installing various software applications like Java, Flash Player, and Adobe Reader. It also provides directions for setting up accounts with social bookmarking, blogging, and media sharing sites like Delicious, WeeMee, Goodreads, SlideShare, Voicethread, Flickr, and Twitter. The instructions allow users to share content and embed media on blogs and wikis.

1. Jacqui Sharp

3. Always make sure you have the latest
 Java http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
 Flash player
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/dow
 Adobe Shockwave Player
http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/
 Adobe Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep

4.  If you do not have a Delicious Account go to
http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-
and follow the instructions
 If you do not have a ‘WeeMee’ go to
http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com/search/label/w
and follow the instructions

6.  Join now or Sign in
 Click on Add Books
 Type in the name of the book and click Search
 Click on the name of the book to add it to your library
 You can add a review and rate it by
clicking on edit book
 Click on Tools tab
 Click on Make a standard blog widget
 Make choices as to how you would
like your book list to appear
 Copy the code
 Paste into a HTML widget space in
Blogger (Layout) or in the Edit
Navigation space in Wikispaces

7.  Type in the news headings you
want to show (i.e New
Zealand)
 Type in a title
 Click Show Code
 Highlight and copy the code
 Paste into a HTML widget
space in Blogger (Layout) or in
the Edit Navigation space in
Wikispaces

8.  Upload any of your work to http://www.scribd.com/
 You will need to set up an account, once that is set up it is an easy process
to upload and then retrieve the code for inserting into blogs and wikis
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14769799/-Zoo-Activity-Ideas
My Zoo Activity Ideas

9.  Upload PowerPoints
to Slideshare
 These can be
inserted into wikis
and blogs
 http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com/2008/07/upload-powerpoints-

10. Set up an account, upload
animated PowerPoints with
sounds, video, links, buttons
and transitions to SlideBoom.
Embed in blogs and wikis.
Students will need to critique
their PowerPoints before
uploading, remind them that
'less is more' when adding
effects to their slideshows.

13. Mixbook example

14. Dipity Example
Dipity is an online application
that allows you to make and
share interactive timelines.
There is a search feature to
look at other timelines under
a wide range topics i.e. History,
Literacy, Social Science etc.
These timelines can be
embedded into wikis, blogs
and webpages. This is an example of a timeline about Sir Edmund Hillary.

15. Voicethread is a collaborative space of group conversations.
The example below is created by a student called Zoe in America, she designed it around her
interest in Global Warming. Zoe's Global Warming Voicethread
A VoiceThread can be created using documents, videos and photos. Comments can be added by
registered users by text or voice.
They can be exported to your computer
as a widescreen movie and to wikis,
blogs and webpages. You can use a
variety of images: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG;
docs: PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, XLS; and
videos. If you've got a Flickr account, you
can import from those as well.
It has a 'doodle' feature which means you
can draw over the images to make a point
while you are recording your voice.
Classroom Application:
a way for children within the class to collaboratively present an investigation, book report
any writing genre (recounts, reports, explanations, descriptions, procedural etc) technology
Challenge or for children as in Zoe's example to invite experts outside of the classroom
environment to comment or answer questions

16. Slide example

17.  Create basic mindmaps
 Save online
 Others can edit it
 Can be embedded into wikis and blogs
http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/20
08/06/bubblus-online-
collaborative.html

18.  Create a Flickr site to
store your photos
 http://www.flickr.com
/photos/sharpjacqui

19.  Click on Get Started –
Join
 Choose a User name
and Password
 Type in your first
Twitter
 Follow people by
typing in their user
name (mine is
sharpjacqui)
 Start following
Twitter is a bit like Facebook without
all the bell and whistles
You are limited to 140 characters
Use it as a Professional Learning Network
(PLN)
Ask questions, post great websites, offer
advice, ask for advice, learn from other
like-minded people!
http://www.k-
3teacherresources.com/teachers-guide-
to-twitter.html (K3 Teachers Resources)