The official 515 site.
Analyze and evaluate successful social media practices. Create an academic-based podcast portfolio. Present an emerging technology case study. Use web-based tools to collaborate with students and colleagues. Reflect upon how missionary organizations can reach out to communities using social media.
On the EDUC 515 social media page, you’ll find the latest news, comments, updates, and resources. Use this site to get social media information, get links from our 515 class sessions, and watch video editing tutorials. You will become a master in social media, and your classroom will never be the same again. If you’re in my class or not, feel free to email me with any social media or 515 questions.
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How to Add a Retweet Button Inside Your PDF Documents | The Social Media Guide
how to create a retweet button: http://twitter.com/home/?status=
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Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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Educational Web Sites
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Playing With Pixetell: Giving Students Feedback – The Educators’ Royal Treatment
Take a look at this gnarly software called Pixetell which enables you to quickly add voice, screen recordings and video to email and other electronic documents”. Read more
Out-of-Town Students: Meet on DimDim Tonight
If there is a flash flood between you and APU tonight, meet us on DimDim instead. We will Skype to chat, and I will use DimDim for screen sharing.
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BBC – Schools Online World War One – Homepage
History teachers…this is a must for you
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Compare and contrast – Video games as educational tools – Dangerously Irrelevant
Video Games in the Classroom
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ShoutEm – Roll your own Microblogging Social Networking
The ShoutEm blog is your guide to all things microblogging. Founded by the team of ShoutEm,which lets your create your own microblogging network, this blog gives you the latest news, guides and insight into microblogging and the mobile web
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Sample interview questions for teaching candidates
Here’s another website with sample interview questions.
Assignment: Social Media Book Review
Read one of the following books about social media:
- Trust Agents
- Crush It!
- The New Community Rules
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- Six Pixels of Separation
- The World is Flat 3.0
- The Whuffie Factor
Using Google Docs or Google Wave, collaboratively create a presentation about the book (with two other classmates). In your presentation, summarize, evaluate, and make a book recommendation. Presentations should be four to seven minutes in length.
Due Jan. 20, week 8.
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DSJ comments on 7 computer sites that you might want to take a look at.
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2009-10 Coffee Breaks: Google Tools for Educators
20 for guests. F
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Assignment: Case Study
Select a current, historical, or emerging technology not discussed in class. Submit your case study proposal by week four, indicating the focus of your case study. Write a 2-3 page paper about the selected technology. Develop a case study to include a written and visual component covering the following areas:
• Implications of a technology in the classroom environment
• Ethics of using the technology in the classroom
• Evolution of a technology
Present your finding to the class. Focus on your researched technology, and address your paper in the presentation. Include a podcast (or small video), links to a blog site, and other applications that enhance your message. Presentations should be six to ten minutes in length.
Due January 27, week 9.
Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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How to Free Yourself From Gossip | Learn This
Gossip is a relationship killer and knowing how to avoid it and free yourself from it will strengthen your relationships and give you more genuine communication.
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Weblogg-ed » I Don’t Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…)
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like polleverywhere, but easier to embed in a website
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Twelve Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Posterous : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum
tips on getting the most out of posterous!
