This document summarizes a workshop on emerging technologies for teaching and learning including blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and personal portals. It provides instructions for participants to get started using these tools including creating accounts on Gmail, Blogger, Delicious, Google Reader, Wetpaint, and iGoogle. Examples are given for how to use each tool such as bookmarking websites, subscribing to RSS feeds, creating wiki pages and blogs, and customizing a personal portal. The document stresses keeping up with these new technologies and provides ideas for integrating them into the classroom.

1. Keeping up with the
Before we get Started…
If you don’t already have one…
go get a Gmail Account!
Email me from your Gmail account
(LeslieSmith7@gmail.com)

2. Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
Facilitators:
Leslie Smith
Michael Greene
Kristy Walker
Rappahannock Community
College

3. Keeping up with the
Before we get Started…
If you don’t already have one…
go get a Gmail Account!
Email me from your Gmail account
(LeslieSmith7@gmail.com)

4. Keeping up with the
Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web
What the heck is Web 2.0?
Wikipedia
Web Based
Read/Write
Social
Continual Beta

5. Keeping up with the
Social Bookmarking
•Traditional Bookmarking
•Exporting/Importing
•Social Bookmarking
•Remote Access
•Annotations
•Tags & Subscriptions
•Networking
•Sharing

6. Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
Work
Session
Social Bookmarking

7. Keeping up with the
Social Bookmarking: Get Started!
1. Open a social bookmarking account at Del.icio.us.
2. Download the browser plugin tool.
3. Add the New Horizons account (rccnh08@gmail.com ) to our
network.
4. Bookmark and add comments and tags for the following:
* Your college homepage—tag appropriately (ie, RCC)
* The VCCS website—tag appropriately (ie, VCCS)
* Your favorite website—tag
* A best resource for a particular class—tag (ie, ENG112)
* A best resource for another class—tag (ie, ITE115)
5. Try bookmarking w/o the tool (as if it were a public computer)
—bookmark another course tool.
6. Add someone to your network.
7. Subscribe to a tag

8. Keeping up with the
Blogs
•Journaling-LiveJournal
•Audience
•Multi-Modal
•Arrangement
•Syndication

9. Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
Work
Session
Blogs

10. Keeping up with the
1. Open a blogging account at blogger.com (from
your gmail page, look in the upper left hand
corner, click on “more” and then click on
“blogger.”
2. Create a blog for a course that you are
teaching.
3. Change the “settings,” and other “layout” on
your blog. Invite participants (person setting
next to you) to view your blog or post the link
in your Blackboard course.
4. Bookmark your blog page using Delicious.
5. Post a comment to the New Horizons blog at
http://newhorizonsjetsons2008.blogspot.com
reflecting on Web 2.0 technologies and how
you might use social bookmarking and blogs in
your classes.
Blogs: Get Started!

11. Using Blogs in the Classroom
Keeping up with the
Matrix of some uses of blogs in education
1. Classroom Management- portal to foster
community of learners.
2. Collaboration- blogs provide a space where
teachers and students can work to further
develop writing or other skills with the
advantage of an instant audience.
3. Discussions- class blog opens the opportunity
for students to discuss topics outside of the
classroom or to interact with guest speakers.
4. Student Portfolios- Blogs present, organize,
and protect student work as digital portfolios.
Older entries are archived and can be
analyzed more conveniently.

12. Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
What are some
Best Practices
for Using Blogs in
the Classroom?

13. Notes on Best Practices Using
Blogs
Keeping up with the

14. Keeping up with the
RSS Feeds & Aggregators
•Real Simple Syndication
•Subscribing
•News Outlets
•Blogs
•Social Bookmarking
•Other “Social” Sites
•Flickr
•Library Thing
•Wikis

15. Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
Work
Session
RSS and Aggregators

16. Keeping up with the
RSS Feeds & Aggregators: Get Started!
1. Open a RSS aggregator account at google
reader (from your gmail page click “more” and
“reader”).
2. Browse and add some of their subscriptions.
3. Read a few entries and “share” at least two.
4. Bookmark your shared page.
5. Search Technorati for a few blogs and
subscribe to them.
6. Subscribe to your own blog feed.
7. Post a blog reflecting on RSS Aggregators and
how you might use RSS Aggregators
in your classes/work.
8. If your RSS blog posting shows in your
RSS aggregator quickly, “share” it.

17. Keeping up with the
Wikis (Quick Websites)
•Quick Webpages
•Social Authoring
•Tracking Changes
•Collaboration
•Project Management
•Document Sharing

18. Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
Work
Session
Wikis

19. Keeping up with the
Wikis: Get Started!
1. Open a wiki account at wetpaint.com. (Wetpaint Wiki in Plain English)
2. “Edit” your page. List the things you’ve done in the workshop
today.
3. Add notes about what you did to the page & Save!
4. Bookmarking your new page in delicious.
5. Make links to:
• the workshop wiki,
• your bookmarking page,
• your blog, and
• the “shared” page of your RSS aggregator.
6. Add notes about what you did to the page & Save!
7. Make a second page in your wiki titled ‘About Me’. Link the
two pages together.
8. Go to “What’s New” and subscribe to the feed
with your RSS aggregator.
9. Post a blog reflecting on wikis and how you might
use wikis in your classes/work.

20. Keeping up with the
Personal Portals
•Organize Web Materials
•Streamline Web Use

21. Keeping up with the
Personal Portals: Get Started!
1. Open a Personal Portal account at iGoogle
(from your gmail page click “more,” “labs” and
then find “iGoogle” on the right).
2. Browse and add some of their flakes.
3. Add the “Bookmarks” or “Top Links” flake and
bookmark all the tools from the course.
4. Add a few Feeds flakes.
5. Set up one of the pages as your “dream”
browser homepage.
6. Make your “dream browser homepage” the
homepage for your browser.
7. Post a blog reflecting on personal
portals and how you might use personal
portal in your classes/work.

22. Keeping up with the
Leslie Smith
Michael Greene
Kristy Walker
Thank You!