Keeping Up with the Jetsons, Teaching with Emerging Technologies
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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 ([email protected])
Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
Facilitators:Leslie Smith
Michael GreeneKristy Walker
Rappahannock Community College
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 ([email protected])
Keeping up with the
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
Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
WorkSession
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 ([email protected] ) 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
Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
WorkSession
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.
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?
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
Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
WorkSession
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
Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals
Or: Keeping up with
WorkSession
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.
Keeping up with the
Leslie SmithMichael Greene
Kristy Walker
Thank You!