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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)

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Facilitators:Leslie Smith

Michael GreeneKristy Walker

Rappahannock Community College

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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)

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Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web

What the heck is Web 2.0?

WikipediaWeb BasedRead/Write

SocialContinual Beta

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Social Bookmarking•Traditional Bookmarking•Exporting/Importing•Social Bookmarking

•Remote Access•Annotations•Tags & Subscriptions•Networking•Sharing

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Social Bookmarking

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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

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Blogs

•Journaling-LiveJournal•Audience•Multi-Modal•Arrangement•Syndication

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Blogs

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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!

Using Blogs in the Classroom

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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.

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What are some Best Practices

for Using Blogs in the

Classroom?

Notes on Best Practices Using Blogs

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RSS Feeds & Aggregators•Real Simple Syndication•Subscribing

•News Outlets•Blogs•Social Bookmarking•Other “Social” Sites

•Flickr•Library Thing•Wikis

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RSS and Aggregators

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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.

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Wikis (Quick Websites)•Quick Webpages•Social Authoring•Tracking Changes•Collaboration

•Project Management•Document Sharing

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Wikis

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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.

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Personal Portals•Organize Web Materials•Streamline Web Use

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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.

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Leslie SmithMichael Greene

Kristy Walker

Thank You!