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BLOGS
What is a blog?
A blog, a shortened word for Web log, is a set of personal commentaries on the issues the author deems
important, it contains text, images, and links to related information on other blogs, Web pages, and media.
Readers can easily participate in a discussion in which they share knowledge and reflect on the topic. Blogs
promote open dialogue and encourage community building in which both the bloggers and commentors
exchange opionions, ideas, and attitudes. Entries are posted in reverse chronological order.
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What distinguishes a blog from a regular website is what you will find on the blog. Blogs are not built on static
chunks of content. They are comprised of reflections and converstations that in may cases are updated every
day or more frequently. Blogs engage readers with ideas and questions, and links. They ask readers to think and
to respond. They demand interaction.
Implications for students:
The list of benefits of blogging to students are:
1. A new writing genre called "connective writing".
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3. Using blogs to teach media literacy. Students may use blogs to evaluate and access online resources, the
authenticity of links, and collaborating on online projects or applications.
4. In Social Studies, blogs may be used to connect with historians, priamary sources, or eyewitnesses to events:
i.e. soldiers, survivors.
5. In journalism, broadcasting, and video production blogs may be used as an online newspaper format, to post
and promote finished media projects, and as a free online publishing system for not only the school newspaper,
but for clubs, sports, etc.
6. In math, blogs can be used to contribute to notes, homework, assignments, and class discussions.
7. In science, students can again contribute to notes, record observations, homework, assignment, and class
discussions, and analyze/synthesis scientific links. Also, students can post Essential Questions to be solved.
8. Blogs can be used to allow students to become "experts" about a certain topic. They can compare
information from different sources and to reflect on their process of determining the validity and authenity of
links and sites. These student "experts" may also use their blogs for extended study and reflection on a topic.
9. Teachers may use blogs to share not only with students, but with parents, and the school community,
calendars, events, class / subject newsletter, field trips, homework assignments, lessons, discussions, photos,
highlighting student work, and other pertinent class information.
10. School librarians, reading specialists, and teachers may use blogs to create an online book club.
11. In all subjects or classes, blogs may be used to have students actually complete assignments online, or post
WebQuests or other pathfinders to direct students to the needed resources.
12. Teachers can use blogs as a form of an ongoing online student or professional portfolio.
Blogging step-by-step:
The Steps To Create A Blog on Google's Blogger:
1. To start a blog with Blogger, visit the Blogger homepage,
2. Create a Google username and password or enter your Google username and password, and click Sign in.
3. Enter a display name and accept Blogger's Terms of Service.
4. Then click the Create a Blog link and start.
5. Pick an address (URL) and a blog title.
6. Then, choose your favorite blog template. This is how your blog will look when you publish it).
7. Now get creative, add information to your personal profile, and customize how your blog looks.
8. Start writing.
9. Your Dashboardis your starting point. This is where all your blogs are listed, and you can click on the
icons next to them to perform various actions on each blog, such as:
10. Writing a new post: Just click on the orange Pencil icon on your Dashboard to access the Post Editor.
11. Viewing your posts: The gray Post List icon will take you to a list of your published and drafted posts for a specific
blog.
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12. Below the list of your own blogs, youll see a list of the blogs you follow with an excerpt from their latest posts.
13. Check out the drop-down menu next to the Post List icon for a quick link to:
Overview
Posts
Pages
Comments
Stats
Earnings
Layout
Template
Settings
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WIKIS
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a Web page that is accessible to anyone with a Web browser and an Internet connection. A wiki allows
readers to collaborate with others in writing it and adding, editing, and changing the Web page's contents at any
time. It is an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The word wiki is a short form of the Hawaiian wiki-wiki,
which means "quick".
Implications for students:
The benefits of wikis to students:
1. Collaboratively build resource sites for classes / subject. Create a class wiki.
2. Maintaining a collection of links where the instructor and students can post, comment, group or classify links
relevant to the course
3. Mini research projects in which the wiki serves as documentation of student work.
4. Collaborative annotated bibliographies where students add summaries and critiques about course-related
readings.
5. Compiling a manual or glossary of useful terms or concepts related to the course, or even a guide to a major
course concept.
6. Building an online repository of course documents where instructors and students can post relevant
documents.
7. Creating e-portfolios of student work.
8. Creating an online text for a curriculum subject.
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9. Students could add graphics, links, annotations, reflections, and post PowerPoint presentations, video, audio
files, and spreadsheets.
Wikis to transform learning:
Specific ways to use wikis to transform learning in your classroom:
1. Teaching students to evaluate the accuracy and appropriateness of content on sites like Wikipedia.
2. Wikis may be used for group collaboration and problem solving, peer editing during the writing process, and
electronic portfolios.
3. Students can work from anywhere, they can contribute at anytime, than be limited to the school day or class
period. A classroom is available 24/7.
4. Wikis keep track of changes, teachers can look at successive versions of documents for electronic portfolios
or the contributions each student has made. Completed work can be viewed by parents and others to read and
comment on.
5. Teachers can use wikis for students to collaborate on a document by writing, editing, and revising outside of
traditional classroom boundaries. These wikis can be contributed on a regular basis.
6. Wikis can be used for tracking work, sharing links, posting results of experiments, essential questions, and
building a course text.
7. Wikis can link back to the class blog and integrate into other class / subject online tools, such as podcasting.
Wikis step-by-step:
The steps to create a wiki:
1. Pages
Go to Wikispace. Enter a username, a password, and a working e-mail address, click the "yes" button to make a wiki,
give your wiki a name, select the type of wiki you want, click the box to certify that you're using it for educational
purposes and you are set-up.
Each wikispace may contain many pages. Each page is a single Web page that can contain content and can link to
other pages.
2. Creating Pages
To create a new page within the current space, use the Make a New Page link in the sidebar or just create a link to
the new page in the editor. When you create a space, you'll start with one blank page called Home. Click Edit to add
content to that page.
3. Editing Pages
Each editable page on Wikispaces has an Edit button at the top of the page. Click on the Edit button to bring up the
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page editor. The page editor allows you to add text and pictures to a page and to format that page. The editor has a
visual mode and a plain text mode.
Using the editing toolbar, you can do some basic formatting of your text, and you may add audio and video to your
page(s). You can also add a Google Calendar.
You can also upload files and pictures up to 20 MB from your computer. Use the file / picture icon.
Save all pages and view result.
If you need to make changes, click "Edit This Page".
You may add subpages and layers to your site.
You may hyperlink by highlighting and clicking on the link icon on the toolbar. Paste or type the link.
4. Discussion Tab
You and your students can add reflections on work and have content creation transparency. There is also
a "History" tab to go back and look at previous discussions / reflections, etc.
5. Manage Wiki
You may set up separate acoounts for each student who is editing the wiki. Click "User Creator".
You can upload a spreadsheet with all you student info that you can turn into individual accounts.
Student individual accounts will allow students to log into the site when they edit, and the teacher may check under
"History" to see who did the editing.
Wiki resources:
Other Internet resoures related to wikis:
1. Wikispaces
2. Wikispaces Classroom
3. Jotspot
4. Pbwiki
5. Wikipedia
6. MediaWiki
7. Simple English Wikipedia
8. "Flat Classroom" wiki
9. Louise Maine's wiki
10. Webnote
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PODCASTS
What is a podcast?
Podcasting is a way to distribute multimedia files such as music or speech over the Internet for playback on
mobile devices and personal computers. The term podcast, a word created by combining Apple's iPod and
broadcast, can mean both the content and the method of delivery. The host or author of a podcast is often called
a podcaster. Podcasters create their own Internet radio, it is the creation and distribution of amateur radio.
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Podcasts step-by-step:
Here's what you need to create a basic podcast: a digital audio recorder that can crate an MP3 file, some space
on a server to host the file, a blog, and something to say.
Audacity us a free audio editor and recorder where you can create podcasts and modify any sound. Just
download to your desktop and the the GNU General Public License.
On Audacity you can:
Record live audio
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files
Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together
Change the speed or pitch of a recording
You can listen to the recording by hitting the play, pause, and stop buttons.
You can cut, copy, and paste selections.
You can add multiple tracks.
Some Audacity tips:
Audacity writes all the changed and recorded audio to a directory called Projectname_data, which is
located right where you saved the project file itself. To rename your file, click Save and type in the new
name.
Audacity an import WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP3, and OGG files. There are three ways to import files:
drag and drop the audio file, go to Project and click on Import Audio, or select CTRL-I (PC) and
Command-I (MAC).
Always make a copy of the original before editiong.
Podcast resources:
List of other Internet resources related to podcasts:
1. Audacity
2. iTunes
3. Window Media Player
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RSS
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Weblogs and other sites generate a behind-the-scene code in a
language similar to HTML called XML. This code usually referred to as a "feed" as in "news feed", makes it
possible for readers to "subscribe" to the content that is created on a particular Weblog so they no longer have
to visit the blog itself to get it. As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you
going to get it, hence "Really Simple Syndication". You can grab this "feed" and put it into an aggregator. The
aggregator software retrieves syndicated Web content. Then readers are alerted automatically when new
content is added. Readers are allowed to subscribe to RSS feeds from websites, blogs, newspapers,
magazines and countless other digital sources. Whenever a site that you are subscribed to is updated the new
information is sent to the reader. Information comes to the reader instead of the reader having to go to the
information.
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iGoogle
Firefox browser Live Bookmark
Twitter
Blogger
Most major news organizations like the New York Times
Blogsearch.Google.com
Moreover.com
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a Web-base service that displays shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks. Instead
of keeping long lists of "favorites" in a browser, people use these Web sites to organize, rank, and display their
resources for other to see and use. A person may classify the content using tags based on folksonomies of
community-acceptble keyword classifications.
Social bookmarking sites allow users to create a page of annotated URLs. A user will select favorite Web
pages, add a sentence that describes each page, and put in keywords to use for tags. Because these tags are
attached to the sites, others can initiate a search for them and get back a list of URLs for sites tagged with these
words. People connect through shared tags and subscribe to one another's lists, which means that they'll
receive an alert when one is updated.
This ability to share, connect, and create with others of like minds and interests is a collaborative construction of
knowledge by those willing to contribute is redefining teaching and learning.
Implications for students:
The benefits of social bookmarking for students are:
Student teams working on a project, can divide their project's topic into subtopics, and each student can
search for information on the one he or she chooses. Then they can share what they've found online,
select the ones that are the most relevant, and use them for the project.
Students can search for information by using keywords to bring up lists of Web sites related to their topic
that others have compiled. This way students can find information that they might not have thought to
look at.
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Online bookmarking means students may use any computer or device to access their favorites.
Students and their work can connect to a larger whole. Responsibility for their work is shared by those
interacting with it, the readers and commentators from within the classroom or outside.
Social bookmarking to transform learning:
School librarians can tag links to publishers and book suppliers to keep up-to-date with new
resources.
If you have a school or class online newspaper, the teacher and students can post the social
bookmarking links, which they can share and collaborate with readers.
Teachers can manage the curriculum through saving links to all the examination boards and
syllabuses by using a specific tag.
Teachers can create a bank of online or interactive resources to be used in the classroom.
Create a tag for resources for Continuing, Professional Development.
Plan for particular calendar events, holidays/festivals, including the date in the tag.
Create a Network for networking with other educators .
Create a faculty or subject account for storing and sharing teaching resources.
Classify resource types (audio, video, graphic) by adding to the tags.
Social bookmarking step-by-step:
A well-known social bookmarking site used in education is del.icio.us. A user may keep their favorites online and
also have access to other people's bookmarks.
Store links to favorite sites, articles, blogs, lessons, and more, and access them on the Web from any
computer.
Share favorites with students, other educators, and colleagues.
Discover new things with less work. Other del.icio.us user may have already found and posted exactly
what you are looking for.
Tag Your Bookmarks
Tags are one-word descriptors that are assigned to a bookmark. Tags can't contain quotation marks or white
spaces, but are otherwise unrestricted. You can assign any number of tags to a bookmark, and rename, delete,
add, or merge tags together. If you want to post an article about reading and literature circles, just tag it with
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"reading" and literaturecircles" or whatever other tags you'd want to use to find it again.
Bundle Your Tags
Bundles are a way to group together common tags. For instance, if you have the tags "stories",
"literaturecircles", and "vocabulary", you may want to group these together into a bundle called "reading".
Set Up Your Network
Your network connects you to other del.icio.us users. You can add friends, family, colleagues, other
educators, or anyone you find while exploring del.icio.us to your network and keep track of their latest
bookmarks right here. And you can share new bookmarks with people in your network simply by clicking on their
username when you save. "Your fans" use your reverse network - a list of people who have added you to their
network.
Set Up del.icio.us Buttons
You can add two useful buttons (bookmarklets) to your browser's bookmarks toolbar. The Post to del.icio.us
button posts the current page to your list and the My del.icio.us button lets you quickly view your bookmarks.
You can set up the my del.icio.us bookmark by dragging the JavaScript information to your bookmarks folder
taht you have available when you sign up. There is also a way to make MP3 files play on any page by dragging
del.icio.us related files to your bookmark.
There are instructions available for different browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
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PHOTO SHARING
What is a photo sharing?
Photo sharing is an online photo management and sharing application. Instead of sending photoss from
desktops and cell phones using email, people can post them to the photo sharing application and invite people
to view them in online albums or slideshows. A person can add notes and tags to each photo, and their viewers
can leave comments, notes, and tags as well. Tags are searchable so it's easier to find related photos later.
Photos are secure and private.
An example of a photo sharing application is Flickr.
Implications for students:
The benefits of photo sharing for students are that students can post digital photos and use them to illustrate
their writing. Students can also upload their own photographs to ilustrate narratives, document field trips, show
historical sites, and display objects for school. Through this process students will also learn about how to
copyright their own work and are educated in intellectual property.
With photo sharing, students are able to share their photo's with an online audience and invite others to discuss
their images. This allows for contributors to interact and share and learn in creative ways. This online audience
may include parents, community, and other students globally.
Photo sharing to transform learning:
Specific ways photo sharing can transform learning in the classroom:
1. share, comment, and add notes to photos or images to be used in the classroom
2. embed your photos into your school or class web space
3. inspire writing and creativity
4. create a storybook using shared images
5. create a presentation using the photos, annotation and slideshow in flckr
6. use photo sharing tools in to create motivational posters, magazine covers, cd covers, and more, using
shared photos
7. find photos that you can use that are Creative Commons licensed
8. use tags to find photos of areas and events around the world for use in the classroom.
9. use photos to enhance students classroom work or for media literacy projects
10. promote and document school events in order to share photos with the school community
11. combine geotagged photos with Google Earth for enhanced geography explorations.
12. create digital portfolios where students and instructors can comment on the photos that are included.
13. create a photoblog using the shared photos
Photo sharing step-by-step:
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9. Instagram
10. Smilebox
11. Shutterfly
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
What is digital storytelling?
Digital storytelling uses digital media to create media-rich stories to tell, to share, and to preserve. Digital
storytelling includes weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving dimension and color to
characters, situations, and insights. The digital storytelling environment provides an opportunity for stories to be
manipulated, combined and connected to other stories in an interactive, and transformative process that
empowers the author and invests the notion of storytelling with new meaning. Using the Internet, and other
emerging forms of distribution, these stories provide a catalyst for creating communities of common concern on
a global scale.
Implications for students:
The benefits of digital storytelling to students are making students better writers through the multiple drafts,
rewrites, and script preparation that is required and helps students build essential visual literacy skills through
the selection of the imagery required to construct the story. Students are able to share their digital storytelling
which demonstrates to them that what they have to say is important to a wider audience.
Digital storytelling merges writing, photographs, music, and voice to create a personal multimedia story.
Students compose a narrative, synthesize the story into its critical elements to develop a script. Students then
add multimedia to the script by including photographs, music, and audio and then put it all together in a ligical
squence that is compelling and engaging.
Digital storytelling to transform learning:
Specific ways to use digital storytelling to transform learning in your classroom:
Create a myth about the origins of a modern-day invention to share with future generations.
Develop myths from what would happen if.
Create myths of how things came to be in your life, family, school, or business.
Change a current event into a tall tale or myth.
Develop a legend of a family members life or accomplishments.
Create a legend of your own life for your great, great grandchildren to pass on.
Create a fractured fairy tale using something from your own life.
Create legends or tall tales of a literary character, mathematical concept, or social studies event.
Describe an event and why it matters, connects, or makes a difference to our humanity or communities
today.
Tell about a person and what his or her life or work has taught usor perhaps how his or her work or
choices in life continue to touch our lives today.
Describe bees and what you now realize about their contribution or importance to our world.
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Help convince others to make better choices by sharing a defining moment when a decision or experience
(e.g., drugs, guns, Internet chat rooms, dropping out of school, drinking, smoking, recycling our garbage,
helping a friend, or stopping the bullying of others) changed or touched lives forever.
Be a squirrel, eagle, bear, whale, or toucan convincing others to take care of the environment through a
personal story of what happens when you do or what happens when you do not.
Digital storytelling step-by-step:
The steps in digital storytelling creation:
Some type of video publishing application is needed such as MovieMaker (Windows) or iMovie (Apple) or an
online application such as Animoto.
Here is an overview of the process of creating a digital story:
Script development: write the story, often with a group called a story circle to provide feedback and story
development ideas
Record the author reading the story (audio recording and editing)
Capture and process the images to further illustrate the story (image scanning and editing)
Combine audio, images and any additional video onto a timeline, add music track (video editing)
Add background music, titles, transitions, and effects
Present or publish finished version of story
SCREENCASTING
What is screencasting?
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A screencast is a video taken of your computer screen that allows you to show all of the
actions that are happening on the screen while you narrate.
Implications for students:
The benefits of screencasting for students:
1. Students could annotate their work in voice as they show it on screen.
2. Students could create their own Internet tours.
3. Students would be able to read stories or poetry they wrote with accompanying visuals they have created or
found.
4. Students would be able to take some of their podcasts and attach visual images to go along with the podcast.
Screencasting to transform learning:
Specific ways to use screencasting to transform learning in the classroom:
1. Teachers could create screencasts as support materials when teaching complex skills.
2. Using a tablet, teachers could capture the ink annotations or written solutions that can be shared with
students.
3. Teachers could create training videos for peers, narrate PowerPoint-created tours for parents.
4. Video collections could be created of exemplary student work.
Screencasting step-by-step:
The steps to create a screencast:
What is needed:
A computer
A microphone (either external or built in to your computer)
A webcam (This is optional and used if you want to include a video of yourself within the
screencast.)
A screen recording program (can be installed on your computer or accessed through the
web)
A quiet room to record in
Creation:
1. Create an outline of what you want to say.
2. Test your microphone to make sure you can be heard clearly.
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GOOGLE SKETCHUP
What is Google Sketchup?
Google SketchUp is an application for quickly and easily creating, viewing, and modifying 3D designs.
Implications for students:
Students could use Google SketchUp to design do-it-yourself project that can build graphic skills. After a model
is built on Google SketchUp, it can be placed in Google Earth or posted to 3D Warehouse.
Also, Google SketchUp could be used by students to:
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GOOGLE EARTH
What is Google Earth?
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Google Earth is a mapping product that combines satellite imagery from around the globe with Google search
capabilites. Its navigational features allow users to explore the world and gather geographical information by
zooming in from space to street level views. It offers tools for measuring, drawing, saving, printing, and GPS
device support.
Implications for students:
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technologies, the blogs, podcasts, RSS subscriptions, social networks, and more that they will encounter.
Ethical Behavior : Students need a code of ethics because it is important for them to use information and
technology in safe, legal, and responsible ways. It is important that students maintain a strong, positive online
reputation. This code would encompass honesty, fairness, and being courageous in gathering, interpreting, and
expressing information for the benefit of others. Students would treat information sources, subjects, colleagues,
and information consumers as human beings deserving of respect. Students are accountable to their readers,
listeners, and viewers and to each other. Students need to understand and recognize that information is
property. Information is the fabric that defines much of what we do from day to day, and this rich and potent
fabric is fragile.
Instant Messaging, Social Networking and Image Sharing:The dangers of IM's involves the lack of basic security
features that opens the door to hackers and viruses and perhaps to data capture. IM is a difficult application to
control because it attempts to hide within other network services, borrowing assigned TCP port numbers for its
own communication. Traditional firewalls are ineffective. The dangers of social networks is that the personal
information posted on these networks is public and readily available in one virtual location. Many users are
under the minimum age requirements. There is no way of preventing underage children from using the networks.
This also opens the door to predators. The image sharing dangers involve students posting private, provocative,
and even untrue information. Without proper guidance, students become very vulnerable on these sites.
Alternatives: One solution is to have sites that are dedicated to education. Another solution is to have
moderators patrol and edit or remove inappropriate content. The teacher could be the arbiter of appropriate
content. The system is in a controlled environment where teachers set up a class blog and add the names of
students who should have access. Another solution is to place Web 2.0 tools on intranets so they are behind
district firewalls. This limits what students are able to access. There are also free solutions such as Think.com
which provides online tools for education that are hosted remotely but that provide access only to teacherdesignated users. Districts that want or need help with Web 2.0 services may also hire consultants who can set
up or create a school or district communication system and maintain it on their servers for security purposes.
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