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Flat World

bwatwood — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:13:42 CDT

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SlideShare

bwatwood — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:56:15 CST

What is SlideShare?

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.

- Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
- Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites.
SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!
Some of the things you can do on SlideShare

- Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
- Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
- Synch audio to your slides.
- Market your own event on slideshare.
- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
- Download the original PowerPoint / Pdf file
{http://www.slideshare.net/about}

SlideShare Website - http://www.slideshare.net

User Generated Pictures and Video

bwatwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:23:09 CST

User generated content refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users such as teachers or students (as opposed to mass media generated content).

The term entered mainstream usage during 2005 due to the explosion of web publishing opportunities. Its use for a wide range of applications including problem processing, news, gossip, and research reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital pictures and video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and videos, and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building, and discovery.

Before the launch of YouTube in 2005, there were few simple methods available for ordinary computer users who wanted to post videos online. With its easy to use interface, YouTube made it possible for anyone who could use a computer to post a video that millions of people could watch within a few minutes. The wide range of topics covered by YouTube has turned video sharing into one of the most important parts of internet culture.

Flickr is an image and video hosting website as well as an online community. Individuals can share personal photography, tag the photos for organization, and browse the photos of others. {Some material from Wikipedia}

7 Things You Should Know About YouTube

7 Things You Should Know About Flickr

The YouTube Handbook provides ways to help you find and watch videos. You can also interact with other YouTube users and around shared interests. If you make videos, you can broadcast them to the whole world, and maybe even develop an audience for your creations.

Home: Clicking the "YouTube Handbook" link in the navigation bar will always bring you back here.
Watch: Everything there is to know about watching videos, like how to find cool videos, subscribe to channels, and save videos to watch later.
Produce: Tips & tricks for making better videos, copyright information, and how to upload to YouTube.

VSBA Collaboration

bwatwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:58:50 CST

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Social Networks

bwatwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:25:27 CST

Social networking has created new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace and Facebook being the most widely used in North America.

By 2005, MySpace was reportedly getting more page views than Google. In 2006, Facebook opened up to the non US college community to become the largest and fastest growing site in the world, not limited by particular geographical followings.

Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like MySpace and Facebook by appealing to users who want to create networks around specific interests or have limited technical skills. The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own custom social network for a particular topic or need, catering to specific audiences. Ning has been used by educators to conduct a book study on Curriculum Mapping. Many educators are using ning for developing educational resources. Features were customized so that participants could upload pictures and videos of student developed projects as well as links to blogs and Flickr.

7 Things You Should Know About Facebook

7 Things You Should Know About Ning

Social Bookmarking

bwatwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:56:21 CST

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking using websites like Delicious is a service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, social bookmarking greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

The Site We Use is Delicious

Delicious lets you bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere. Instead of having different bookmarks on every computer, Delicious makes it easy to have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers. Even if you're not on a computer you own, you can still get to your bookmarks on the Delicious website.

Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return. If your friends use Delicious, you can send them interesting bookmarks that they can check out the next time they log in. Of course, they can do the same for you. As you explore the site and find interesting users, you can use our Subscriptions and Network features to keep track of the Delicious tags and users you find most interesting.
Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web. See what's hot with Delicious users by checking out their popular tags. By looking at popular bookmarks for a tag, you'll be able to discover the most interesting bookmarks on the topics you're most interested in. Browse bookmarks on just about anything from the best programming tips to the most popular travel sites, all in an easy to read format. {http://delicious.com/about}

7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking

Good Social Bookmarking Sites

Delicious - http://delicious.com

Diigo - http://www.diigo.com

Wiki

bwatwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:52:44 CST

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems.
"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". {From Wikipedia}

7 things You Should Know About Wikis

Good Wiki Sites (Free)

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com

WetPaint - http://www.wetpaint.com

Blogs

bwatwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:39:58 CST

A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. {From Wikipedia}

7 Things You Should Know About Blogs

Web Tool Tour

bwatwood — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:42:30 CST

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EMail Is For Old People

bwatwood — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:47:03 CST

Developing Our Own Digital Literacy (Session Overview)

Email has been around for almost two decades and has served us well. Through email, we stay connected and share information and documents. It would be difficult to conceptualize our work without it. Yet, the internet has evolved over the past two decades from a place one visits to a place in which one interacts, offering new opportunities beyond email. Numerous web resources such as social bookmarking, social networks, RSS aggregation, blogs, and Twitter can be used to keep school board members, administrators and teachers up to date on emerging technology, teaching resources, and support networks. This session will provide an overview of Web 2.0 applications for personal learning and instructional use.

Key Questions

• How do Board members, administrators, and teachers communicate professionally and personally? More importantly, how do they share professional information?
• How is that different from how students communicate and share academically and personally?
• How could web applications be leveraged to facilitate professional and instructional collaboration, connections and communication?