Week 7: Slideshare
Who Are You?
When you sign up for a site, upload a photo of yourself and fill in the “About Me” section. Be sure to include a link to your blog and/or website.
Keep up with everything
- Disqus comment tracker
- Fever feed reader
- Levelator adjusts the audio levels within your podcast for variations from one speaker to the next, for example.
- Article: Why Email No Longer Rules
LiveScribe recently released the Pulse SmartPen. Dr. Michael Wesch summarizes it well at his website:
“…it records audio as you write and links what you are writing to the audio (by recording what you write through a small infrared camera near the tip of the pen). When you are done recording you can actually tap the pen anywhere on your page and the pen will play the audio that was recorded at the time you were making that specific pen stroke.”
Case Study
- Example: history of social media
- Instead of creating your own videos and presentations from scratch, use ones at TeacherTube and Slideshare, or Scribd.
After watching this presentation, help summarize the key points on this Google Document. View the final document here.
Think outside the box for your presentation, like Dr. Michael Wesch’s video The Machine is Us/ing Us:
As you work on your case study, be sure to review the rubric.
Group Presentations
Collaborate using:
Review the book review rubric as you work together.
