Through social bookmarking, Web users share their sources of information by allowing anyone to copy their RSS feeds. So an educator, no matter how unfamiliar he or she is with online technology, can easily archive, for example, all of Richardson’s sources of research via sites such as Del.icio.us and Furl.net. This allows students and teachers to build Internet resource pages they can share and pass on to future classes.Are you tired of having your bookmarks wiped out each time your computer is re-imaged by the district? Organize all of your bookmarks on del.icio.us or Furl.net and share them with your learning community.
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This past year, I was shooing students off of facebook during class time in the library but I have come to re-think this practice. One of our students in Grade 11 Shannon Mclachlan is using facebook to raise $10,000 to build a school in Kenya with her friends here at Clayton. Also, students use facebook to do group study sessions and to work on projects for school. Check out some of the sites on this post and think about how you could use them in your classroom. Teachers in this school are already using facebook to Science videosWill Richardson [author of book: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms calls these “social content-sharing sites,” the most notable being MySpace.com, where members create profiles, network, and share opinions, photos, and audio-visual content. But there are about as many social networking sites as there are interests, and among favorites are Flickr.com, where photographs are posted and shared, and the video-sharing site YouTube.com. Discover how to organise online resources for yourself, your colleagues and your students - and save time!
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VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the worldVoiceThread is free for teachers but if they want to add on their students to a secure K-12 network then they have to pay either 10 dollars to be on the network or $60 dollars to have a whole class on the network. More info at Ed.VoiceThread.
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Perhaps the most powerful Internet tool is the Weblog, or blog, an online journal that is continuously updated by its author or authors. Blogs are Web sites that facilitate instantaneous publication and allow for feedback from readers. They’ve been used to form professional development communities, both within one school and across continents. Catch up with the trend that is sweeping the world of online learning: the use of Blogs K-12.Free Blogging Sites:
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A wiki is a communal, subject-specific Web site where users are free to add and/or edit content. When it comes to Internet-based collaboration, there’s nothing easier to use, according to Richardson. In schools, wikis enable groups of students, teachers, or both to gather content and share written work. Some classes create their own textbooks and resource sites. Take a look at Wikis and plan how you can use them for learning and teaching, for projects, professional development, or library resources.So a wiki (quick in Hawaiian) is a site that can be modified by a group of people collaborating on a specific project.
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