Chapter 6 Learning Together

Symone Slater

Intro.

The use of the Social Web is now heavily incorporated into the everything we do.

All Roads point to the Web where little is done in isolation and all things are collaborative and social in nature, including learning.

The ability to create, publish, share, and connect with others who share our interests has changed our relationship with the World Wide Web.

The Twitterverse

A “microblogging” tool Introduced in 2006 Used to send quick

updates to anyone that is “following” the person sharing an update

“Tweets” are limited to 140 characters.

Known for blending the personal and professional making users feel more a part of the lager conversation and a member of a community.

Using Twitter

Setting up a twitter account is easy. Simply go to twitter.com, click sign-up

and get started. Follow your friends, classmates, family

members, favorite stores, news stations and even some of your professors.

Although getting people to follow you may seem difficult if you start with you friends and family you’ll be sure to have followers.

Keeping the Conversation Going If you see something on twitter and

want to reply, place an @ sign in front of their named to respond

Share you own learning on twitter The more you participate, the more

followers you’ll gethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=J0xbjIE8cPM

Twitter in Education

Some schools are using Twitter as a way to communicate with the parents and others in the community

Students can find daily notices and links to other students live presentations https://twitter.com/MSUFinancialAid

Parents can also find relevant articles on a variety of topics

Safety

Many parents and some teachers worry about their students using twitter. There is a blocking capability that can be used to

block people from following your students, but you can not block what your students

see.

Social Bookmarking

Many people are using public, online bookmarking services

These sites help to put an end to what can be aimless searching by categorizing the information using “tags” (unique keywords)

-Ex: If you find a great site that lists the 50 best free software programs for teachers

Suggested tags: education, software, free stuff

Diigo

Diigo stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.”

A tool that allows you to create your own pieces of the web

A way of organizing information not only for yourself but also allows you to collaborate with other people

Allows you to bookmark pages you find interesting but also highlight and annotate the info.

Using Diigo

Create an account Click on the Diigolet like in the left-hand

column after logging in Whenever you land on a Webpage that you

want to save, just click on the Diigolet button and you will see multiple options to work with.

When you find something that you want to highlight or take notes on. Right click the text and the option is right there for you.

-there is also a sticky note capability http://resourcelinkbce.wordpress.com/

2011/07/19/12-reasons-teachers-should-use-diigo/

Delicous.com

All about sharing links in the easiest way possible

Tagging is everything on this site

Delicious bookmarks are available for anyone to follow whether by visiting the users pages or by RSS

The community of del.icio.us allows you to find some of the best resources on the Internet without having to trudge through all of the junk.

Using Delicious

If you want to find what anyone else has saved using the same tag, put the tag word at the end of the following: Delicious/tag/yourtaghere

Teachers sometimes have students all tag their links under one name (Ex. RJ101) that is unique to see collaborative class efforts.

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