Social Media Agenda 3b: 2010

FINAL - Friday

Add a link to your Internet Safety Project. Please include a voki in this post - telling your reader to click the link - and saying a summary of what your project is about.

Please go to your first blog post and review all of the tools that we have gone over this semester.

Write one final post - signing off for the course. Reflect upon some of the tools - your thoughts on the course - besides adding a social networking element (which will be included in Social Media II next year) what else can I do to make this class better. Please be honest - honesty is the only way for me to improve. Thanks so much for taking this new course. I hope you had fun! and learned that the Internet is not just about Facebook, games and research!

http://voicethread.com/share/1601796/

Click the voicethread link above to submit a comment and voice! You can do this in the middle room.

Your final post - my final post!!!! Wow - there have been so many!!!! I hope you continue to blog! Create your own personal blog and keep track of all your favorite web tools by utilizing one of your favorite social bookmarking tools. Share the tools with other teachers, parents, siblings, employers, coworkers and grandparents!!!!

Thanks for taking this course - and please continue to explore the web - there are so many valuable FREE tools out there that will enhance your Internet experience.

FINAL PROJECT

Please watch the following voice thread. You will need to create an account on Voicethread - which you will add your comments as 3o did on the site below. Just click on the link and listen and read what 3o said about the class. You will also need to create an account today.

http://voicethread.com/?#q.b1601796.i8466628

YOU WILL NOT DO YOUR VOICE THREAD TODAY - just create an account.

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Visit 3o's student blogs to see their Internet Safety Projects.

Teaching Online Safety

Internet safety is one aspect that we did not cover in this course. It is one of the most important topics that elementary, middle, and high school students need to know about - how can they protect themselves on the Internet. You will create a presentation using an online tool teaching tips on Interent Safety.

Create an an Internet Safety Presentation. You may utilize Glogster, Notaland, KerPoof, COMIX, etc. You will create your presentation on one of these websites - BE CREATIVE!!!! If you have another idea for sharing/spreading Interent Safety - by all means use it. If you use notaland you can use multiple pages - have one topic per page for example. You are creating a simple presentation with pictures, words, you can have links to games, etc on Internet Safety. But you must have useful information on your project.

I will eventually post these on the main school's webpage.

Choose a focus or just be general presentation - for example Safety on Social Networking or be general - cover topics such as setting passwords, using avatars vs personal picture, using your real name, etc. Use pictures, wordle, facts, etc. These may be shared with elementary and middle school students so you can focus your project on that age group or high school age - your choice. You have today and tomorrow to complete this. Please put some thought into your project - DO RESEARCH. You can work with one other person if you are using Notaland, otherwise by yourself. You could even make a video using the camera in the middle room.

When you finish your final - you will create a post and add a link to the Internet Safety site. You will also need to create a voki that introduces your topic (again see 3o's classes if you are confused on what I am talking about). Copy the code into this post.

Title - catchy

May work with partner or by yourself if using Notaland, but you must stay in your seat.

Utilize various websites - some websites are listed below.

Add- games, etc. Links. Worksheets. Tips

BELOW ARE SOME LINKS YOU CAN UTILIZE, however search for your own as well. You should not get finished today. You have another project to complete tomorrow - so really focus on this project.

Interenet Safety - Safe Surfing Tips for Teens

Internet Safety - pdf

Social Networking Sites: Safety Tips for Tweens and Teens

Safety on the Internet

Child Safety - Age Appropriate Tips

SafeKids

Online Safety Education - NetSmartz Safety

http://websafety4kids.pbworks.com/

Please keep track of your sources. These must be submitted.

ALSO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON VOICETHREAD.COM - PLEASE ADD A PICTURE FOR YOUR PROFILE PICTURE. YOU WILL DO SOMETHING WITH THESE TOMORROW.

December 14 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

http://voicethread.com/

Create an account on Voice Thread.

Monday, December 13

Today you will:
Add a Like Button on your blog - Facebook.
Send Santa Messages
Play Christmas Games

Thursday, December 9

Photobucket.com

Photobucket is an image hosting, free photo sharing website.

Today we will explore Photobucket and its features. Create an album and upload it onto our blogs.

Go to photobucket.

Explore homepage - picture windows.

Click - What's New tab

Create an account

Flickr.com
webshots.com

Tuesday, December 7

Revisit post from last Friday.

ASSIGNMENT: Create a post on the Notaland - should have taken a screen shot. Imagination Cubed - should have taken a screen shot and created a post. Create a post over Glogster - be sure to include a link to your glog and a screen shot.

New website: Kerpoof.com

Kerpoof Studio

The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company.

What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:

Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
Tell a story
Make a drawing
Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Check out our What's New and How-To pages to learn more about what you can do with Kerpoof. Kerpoof doesn't come with a manual or a directory or a map. If we've done our job right, then finding your way to the various nooks and crannies of Kerpoof will be half the fun.

In addition to being a lot of fun, Kerpoof has many educational uses. Visit our educator page (with ideas and lesson plans for how to use Kerpoof) or read our flyer for educators if you are in a hurry but want to learn more.

Friday, December 3

Today we are going to draw, create and doodle!

Today we will explore: Nota, Doodletoo, Glogster and Comix!

Doodletoo

http://doodletoo.com/#/lobby

What is DoodleToo about?

Doodletoo.com is an online drawing tool and chat room in one. Enter one of their rooms and draw your messages, ideas, moods, express yourself or post pictures to share with others! Everyone sees your pen and can join you, help you, challenge you or maybe become your friend. The whole world can now see your paintings as they are being created. It's a lot of fun – check for yourself! Register your nickname, choose your default color, start drawing and enjoy yourself! Welcome Doodler!

DoodleToo is a simple chat website :-). Every time you’re drawing you can press ENTER or click "Say it" and enter any message you want to share with the others. Continue drawing with your message appearing at the top of your pen. Click "Snap it" and you’ll get a screenshot! Save it, send it or post it to Facebook for all your friends to see.

DoodleToo on my website

Room Embed API

DoodleToo on your website? It’s easy! Use our DoodleToo Room Embed API and get fully customizable rooms for your website, brand, chat or your private social platform. Our API will use your DoodleToo nickname automatically.

GLOGSTER

Glogster - Interactive Poster for you to express your creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills

Two versions: Glogster EDU and Glogster
Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself.

Text

Tell the others what you think about yourself, about love, friends, school or about the world. Simply write what you have in your mind! Just choose the design you like and write a poem, joke, greeting, a letter or create a presentation.

Images

Don’t forget to add images! Choose the best of your own pictures or the pics you got from the Internet. Cool celebrities, cartoons, characters, glitters or art. Just add them to your Glog and make it fancy.

Music

Words and pictures isn’t enough? Pump it up with some audio! Show the others what kind of music you are into. Pop, rock, hiphop, electronic, jazz or techno. Just upload your favorite mp3 or listen to the music on other Glogs.

Video

Have your own video? Watch your favorite band’s clips every day? Upload it to your Glog. It is easy: you can use videos from your fav video sites. Make your Glog rock and add a video or even a movie.

the free online comic strip maker!

COMIX http://avenscorner.com/flashgames/comic/comic.html

Create an online comic strip using Comix! You can upload your own images or use images/objects that Comix offers. You can add backgrounds and borders as well. Save, publish or print your comic strip! More than three pages can be created.

Nota is casual collaboration.

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and collaborate with others on a project (chat with up to 50 people at a time).

Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends.

http://notaland.com/

Check out Firefox add-on's - see what's new! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

ASSIGNMENT(s)

Create a post with your Comic - add a link to Comix and discuss this tool.
Create a Doodletoo Account - and explore - show an example of this tool by taking a screen shot and posting it to your blog.

Please get 10 pictures on your computer by TUESDAY.

Wednesday, December 1

Review - Compare and contrast TinyChat vs. Google Talk - Explore Skype

PODCASTING - Today we will explore a website which allow us to a create podcast.

Add a message utilizing Vocaroo to your blog as a gadget.

You do not have to create an account, but if you want to save your messages you will need to.

Explore the Imagination Cubed - with a partner.

As well as visit image zone and pull 10 pictures off to be used for a future assignment.

Imagination Cubed - click here!

This collaborative drawing tool provides different brushes, stamps, and other features. Invite others by email to participate in your artwork.

With Imagination Cubed you can email a friend to have them draw with you! FUN!!!! And chat at the same time. You can create a design and email the design to a friend. Once your drawing is complete click replay and it will "replay" your drawing!

ASSIGNMENT:

Add Welcome Message to your blog - as a gadget.

Create a post on Imagination Cubed - take a screen shot and discuss this tool.

Monday, November 30

Today you will:

Create a voice message utilizing several podcasting websites!
Video chat

Assignments/Tasks!
Create a Vocaroo message and embed it onto your blog - in a post or as a gadget!

Try tinychat on Mrs. James website: http://tinychat.com/dawnjames
---Take a screen shot to verify that you and your partner did this. --you will go into the middle room.

Try google video - make sure you are on Safari, or it will not work.
--To do this, log on to your gmail account. On the left hand corner--you will go into the middle room.

While there is down town - change your meez, blog background, visit http://www.go2web20.net/ and explore websites!!!! - HAVE FUN!!! Share what you find by adding a post to our web tools blog!

Tuesday, November 23

Google Tool Presenter: Derek Litke and Mrs. James - Google Toolbar and Notifier

Today's Topic:
Google Templates
Forms

Review Google Templates - create a post!

Today you will:

create a 5 question survey
embed the survey as a post to your blog
participate in taking surveys of your peers
take Mrs. James survey on the Social Media 3o blog
adjust your height and width on your survey to fit in the column

Assignment:

Create a survey on your blog (we will review how to do this)
Survey topic should be geared towards technology/Internet: social networking, social media, web tools, etc.
Please include a name question for your participants
Total of 5 questions
Create a post on Google Templates

When directed, you will take several of your classmates surveys - but to give people time to complete their survey, you will take 3o's surveys.

Go to Social Media 3o and take their survey - choose 5.

Friday, November 19

Google Too Presenter: Derek Litke

Today's Topic - Google Tools
--Forms
--Templates
--Presentation

Assignment:

Utilize Google Forms and create a survey.
Embed survey onto your blog - as a post.
Please include a name field so that you know who responded.
Create 5 questions - use various question types.
Share your survey responses with the rest of the class.
Go to each students blog and take their survey.

Wednesday, November 17

Please go to your Google Docs and wait.

Today we are going to explore google docs even further.

Assignment:

Before lunch - post on FireFox Add-on's this was assigned on Monday.
Participate in Google Docs collaboration - Spreadsheet and Word Processing.
Create a quiz and post it on your blog.

Monday, November 15

Google Tools Presenters - Dacia, Kayla and Nicole - Picasa and Calander

Embed tinychat code onto blog. Share documents. Share screen.

New Topic:
Firefox Add on's

Assignment:

Create a post about the add-on's you found to download.

Thursday, November 11

Google Tools Presenters: Bradley - Chrome and Laura - Voice

Today we will explore Google Docs!

You will upload a word document into Google Docs.
You will download a document created in Google Docs.
Share documents in Google Docs.

ASSIGNMENT:

If you have not done so - change your FAVICON on your blog.
Write about Favicon and Tiny Chat - one post is fine

Create a post discussing what you learned today about Google Docs. What your thoughts - will you use Google Docs?

Tuesday, November 9

TODAY's TOPICS: Favicons, TinyChat and Google Tools

Google Tools Presenters: Emilie and Desiree

Today we will explore Favicons!!!

What are Favicons?

What is TinyChat and how do you use it?

More Background Websites

HOT bliggity
Shabby Blogs
Simply Blog It Backgrounds

November 5

Today we will hear about two more Google tools from

Jakob - Google Knol and Dawn Google Reader

We will also revisit Orkut.
Visit websites where we can change our blog backgrounds!

ASSIGNMENT:
Go to your blog to see if any comments were left on your cbox! Comment back! Go to 3o class blogs and leave one message on two or more students chat boxes.

Your post over Google Tool is due the day you present.
Explore Orkut

Wednesday, November 3

Presenters: Blaine (Google Sites) and Adrianna (Orkut )

Today we will explore two new Google Products - Google Sites and Orkut and you will utilize Cbox to add a chat box gadget to your blog.

ASSIGNMENT
1. Add a chat box to your blog.
2. Post TWO comments in a class mates chat box
3. Create an Orkut Account and add friends to your account

Google Tools - Presentation Dates

You must have your blog post completed by your presentation date.

Wednesday, November 3: Draven, Blaine and Adrianna
Friday, November 5: Jakob and Dawn
Tuesday, November 9: Emilie and Desiree
Thursday, November 11: Bradley and Laura
Monday, November 15: Dacia, Kayla and Nicole

Monday, November 1

Today's Topic - Domain

Identify parts of a URL - read my blog
Identify websites where you can purchase your own Domain.
Demonstrate creating your own Domain on blogger
Explore domain auctions.
See if your name is already taken
Identify - .com, .net, .info, .biz, etc. - what is the difference between them?
What is redirection?

We will explore GoDaddy.com
To see what services they provide.

ASSIGNMENT

Create a post defining Domain.

Discuss the extensions of domains: .com vs .org vs .net

Create a Domain for your blog (or a Domain that you would actually want to use someday) - to see if it is available (you will not actually purchase the domain) - take a screen shot and add it to your Domain post.

PRESENT GOOGLE TOOL:
Juanita - also create a post of your tool

Draven - Google Earth - create a post of your tool

Explore these two tools.

Tuesday, October 26

Today students will explore Google Products. Students will have two class periods to explore a Google Tool - which they will present to the class on Monday, November 1. Explore the tool - conduct a Google search to find information about the tool, etc.

Assignment:
Create a blog post:

describing tool - features
link to download tool
pictures

Presentation
In detail walk classmates through your tool. Going over in great detail your tool's features and abilities. What is the purpose of this tool. How do you use the tool? Do you have to download it?

Your presentation must be organized! Must have a plan for going over the tool - outline - which you will turn in. Demonstrate tool. Show how to download the tool, etc.

Alerts - Desiree
Checkout - Jacob
Google Chrome - Bradley
Desktop - Desiree
Directory - Draven
Earth - Draven
Finance - Emilie
Google Heath - Emilie
Juanita - Quick Flip
Jacob - Google Checkout
iGoogle - Blaine
Images - Misha
Calendar - Kayla and Nichole
Docs - Liz and Mrs. James
Groups - Jacob
Knol - Laura
Orkut - Adrianna
Picasa - Dacia - Kayla - Nichole
Reader Misha
iGoogle - Blaine
Sites - Blaine
SketchUp - Dawn
Realtime Kayla
Google Notifier - Derek
Google Quick Search - Derek
Scholar - Adrianna
Toolbar - Derek
Talk - Mrs. James
Voice - Laura

Wednesday, October 20

Today you will look at ways in which you can post to you student blog other than posting from your blogger account!

Students will identify internet tools in which they can utilize to create blog posts from, other than logging onto their blogger account. They will also compare and contrast each tool.

Blog post from cell phone Click Here for directions
Utilize BlogThis Link
iGoogle - add blogger gadget to iGoogle
Email

Go to your student blog
Click Design
Click on the Settings tab
Click the Email tab
In the Mail-To-Blogger Address - key in your email address
Go to your email account
Note - the email subject will become the title of the post, and the email message will become the body of the post.
Attach a photo to your email and it will be posted to your blog message.

Jott from a Cell Phone

Go to www.jott.com
Follow the instructions to create an account and add a Blogger link
How do I post via Jott?

Call the provided number from your cell phone.
When ask what you want to blog, say "Blogger."
Speak your message (Limit - 15 seconds)
Wait to hear, "Got It"
Hang up

Within a few minutes, your message should be posted to your blog.

ASSIGNMENT - DUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

Create a blog post from your cell phone.
Create a blog post USING BlogThis! link
Create a blog post from your email account.
Create a post over FireFox Personas - tool evaluation - description
Create a post over bibme - tool evaluation - description
Create a post over BlogThis! - tool evaluation - description

Monday, October 18

Today we will explore the following tools/websites:

BibMe
FireFox Personas
Google Gadgets for Webpage Click here for directory

Revisit Google - Tips and Tricks (per Tammy Worcester)

Google Search Tips
Calculator - type a calculation (2 + 5 * 2 - 1/2) and press Enter
Conversion Tool

Be sure to use the word "in"
1 mile in feet
1 cup in tablespoons
100 dollars in euros
180 c in f

Dictionary

Define: folksomanies

Weather

Weather in Cancun, MX

Google Search Options - News, Images, WonderWheel, Timeline, etc.

Wednesday, October 13

CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL ASSIGNED ASSIGNMENTS COMPLETE - I will give you 20 minutes to do the following:

Make sure you have the following completed - remember on your posts to be specific and to add pictures:

Create a post about your iGoogle homepage. Take a screen shot of your iGoogle page and discuss the different gadgets that were available for you to add, as well as discuss the gadgets that you did add.

Create a post - over Blogger gadgets

What gadgets did you add to your blog - what gadgets did you explore, etc. Give examples of gadgets someone could add to their blog. Be specific - thorough.

Check PowerSchool for missing assignments - any zeros - must turn in a handwritten statement telling me that you have them completed. This sheet can be turned into the top tray. If you do not complete the sheet and let me know that you have assignments complete - I will not know to go and check for them specifically - otherwise they stay a zero. ALL MISSING WORK IS DUE THIS THURSDAY!

Monday, October 11

Please open your iGoogle page and wait for Mrs. James to explore the following Google products.

Today students will explore the following Google's products:

Books
Maps
News
Product Search
Web Search
Translate

ASSIGNMENT - DUE WEDNESDAY, October 13

Create a post about your iGoogle homepage. Take a screen shot and discuss the different gadgets that were available for you to add, as well as discuss the gadgets that you did add.

October 7 - Thursday

Students customized their Google homepage, by clicking iGoogle and changing the theme and adding gadgets. Students were given class time to explore the gadgets and add them to their iGoogle page.

FRIDAY, Oct. 8

TOPIC: GOOGLE

ARE YOU A GOOGLER?

Today you will:

Change background image on Google Search
Discuss the ways in which you currently utilize Google

Search
Images
Etc.

Identify the tools that Google offers
Create an iGoogle home page

With Google you can - Search, Explore, Communicate, show and share!

October 7 - Thursday

Today's Topic - Google Tools

Assignment - Due Friday, October 8

Create a post - over blogger gadgets - (we explored them on Wednesday)

What gadgets did you add to your blog - what gadgets did you explore, etc. Give examples of gadgets someone could add to their blog.

Tuesday, Oct. 5

Topics: Stats and Blogger Gadgets

Today you will:

Explore the Histats.com website
Identify features of Histats.com
Explain the purpose of adding a counter/stats to your blog
Add a visitor counter to your blog

ASSIGNMENT 1 - Stats - Histats.com

Please go to our class blog and wait for Mrs. James.

Create an account on Histats.com
Add a counter to your blog from this website

ASSIGNMENT 2 (DUE FRIDAY)

Create a post about this website - and its usefulness - what does it tell you (also discuss the counter from blogger that you added)

Histats.com

Friday, Oct. 1

TOPIC WORD CLOUDS - EXPLORE THE OTHER WORD CLOUD WEBSITES.

Please begin exploring the other web cloud websites if you have not done so. Tagxedo does not work in my computer lab - but try it at home! You have until 11:30. Then we will reexamine Gadgets on Blogger.

ASSIGNMENT 1

Create a post titled- Word Clouds - explain word clouds, purpose - fun/educational and give websites of which your audience could visit to create a word cloud. Add pictures to make your post stand out! Visit the two links on the class blog that discusses ways in which Word Clouds are used in the classroom. The links are also listed below. Explain how you could see yourself utilizing word clouds - in your personal and educational life.

Read article on ways to utilize a word cloud: Click Here

More ideas for the classroom: Click Here

Click through presentation below to see 47 Ways to Use Word Clouds!

See more presentations by laurieyingling | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations

What are Labels on a blog?

Labels allow you to organize your blog posts into categories. Refer to this blog: Katie's Kreations

Blogger has added two new gadgets: Popular Posts and Blog Stats. Today we will add these gadgets to our blogs to see what they are all about. We will also reexamine the Design of our personal blogs and revisit the other gadgets to make sure we know what each one of the gadgets do.

ASSIGNMENT 2

Add the Blog Stats gadget to your blog.

Wednesday, September 29 - WORD CLOUDS

TODAY'S TOPIC: WORD CLOUDS
Purpose:

create word clouds on various web sites
identify ways in which word clouds can be utilized in a school setting and in your personal life

Today you will:

identify websites that allow you to create word clouds
Create word clouds in the form of shapes, initials.
Export word clouds - explore where you can export your word clouds.
Add word clouds to blog.

WHAT ARE WORD CLOUDS?

A word cloud is an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others. Word clouds visually represent the frequency or importance of a word in a given text. As you can see in President Obama's Inauguration speech that someone created a word cloud from. Example: President Obama's Inauguration Speech Created from Wordle

Word clouds can be used for educational and fun purposes. You can place them on your blog, website, social networking site. You can also print them automatically onto items: a great idea for making custom gifts - printing on T-shirts. They are a fantastic tool to summarize large documents (reports, speeches, questionnaires, etc), as well as websites.

There are various websites available on the Internet to create word clouds. Word clouds can be created from sentences, whole documents, web addresses and on some websites even from tables.

WORD CLOUD WEBSITES WE WILL VISIT/EXPLORE

Wordle

Tagul

Tagexdo

TagCrowd

ToCloud

Textorizer

Text Tag Cloud

Image Chef

Worditout

ABCya Word Clouds

ASSIGNMENT

Create a word cloud on Wordle - about Social Media - describing what you have learned

Make Social Media - stand out
Type words that you have been introduced so far this semester: embed, link, post, blogger, etc.
Take a screen shot and place it on your blog - as a post or in the sidebar

WEDNESDAY, September 22

READ ENTIRE POST FOR ASSIGNMENTS

Today you will:

Create a Meez room.
Post your Meez room url on your blog with a brief description of your room
Post your Meez room on Our Web Tools site - as 3o's example

Meez Room Features:

Create an interactive room.
Add furniture
Invite friends and watch videos
Create up to 3 rooms
Sell your room

Please log on to your MEEZ account and create a room.

Before you create your own room - visit Our Web Tools blog and view/visit 3o's rooms on the Meez chat room post. NO CHATTING TODAY - or entering STRANGER rooms other than your own room or 3o's room. We will visit the chat room features on Friday.

Blaine, Liz or Adrianna - On an empty computer - please log in as student and go to the Our Web Tools blog and post your Meez room as 3o did. Others please do the same on this empty computer. You can just copy your link off of your blog post. You can also add your talking message link to the blog post if you have not done so.

To create a room on Meez:

Log into your Meez account
Click My Meez, then choose My Roomz
Click create room in room makerz. There will be an advertisement.
Choose a "hood"
HAVE FUN!!!!

ASSIGNMENT
Create a post on your blog titled: My MEEZ Room. Briefly discuss the room feature of Meez and post your MEEZ room url to your blog as well. Something like to view/visit my room click here. Take a snap shot of your room to add to your post.

Add friends to your Meez:

To add a friend:
Click on My Meez
Click My Friends
Open a new tab and go the class wiki - and choose Meez Accounts 3b to find your classmates user names.

Explore Meez when you have your room made, posts created and you added friends.

SEE YOU FRIDAY!!!!

Monday, September 20

Please make sure that you have REMOVED any personal pictures from your blogs - plus your last names.

Explore Diigo further - see how the sticky note feature works. If you are on a website - you can add a floating sticky note - by clicking on comment tab - try it! Then do the following:

Today's Assignment:

I will be checking to see when the post was created when grading your assignment - so please utilize your time wisely.

Assignment 1
Please create a post for each social bookmarking site that we have discussed.

Symbaloo
Delicious
Diigo

Remember to:

add a link for each site
a logo or screen shot of example - you can see my examples
highlight features - be very specific

You may refer to my description to refresh your memory of each tool on our class blog - plus you can visit our class wiki and click on the link in the sidebar for more information (this information is not organized just notes of mine - I just took notes over each tool. So I could create a great wiki in the future.) Also if you look under course topics covered on the wiki in the side bar - I list features of each tool.

Assignment 2

There are many social bookmarking websites. Below I have found other examples and websites that contain a list of social bookmarking sties. Please explore other social bookmarking tools to see what else is out there and what they are all about.

Create a post on your blog. Remember to include a link, picture and features of the tool. Also bookmark the sites and tag them as bookmarking.

Please create a post with the one that you are going to summarize so no one el

Spurl
BuddyMarks
Redditt
Stumble Upon
faviki
citeulike

Below are websites that list social bookmarking sites - with links and descriptions - you may find the same bookmarking sites on each site.
Have fun exploring!

Collaboration and Bookmarking websites

More Social Bookmarking Sites

125 Social Bookmarking Sites

Top 30 as of 2008

Visit wikipedia for a list of social bookmarking sites. Explore sites!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

ASSIGNMENT

ADD EACH CLASS MEMBERS DELICIOUS ACCOUNT TO YOUR NETWORK

Click on each member's blog - click Delicious Account - and click add to my network

Add classmates as a friend on Meez

TODAY'S TOPIC: DIIGO

Diigo is a social bookmarking site.

Mrs. James created a group for the 3b class. USER NAME: FIRST AND LAST NAME - NO SPACESClick here to obtain your user name and password (you can change your password, so don't worry)
You could also very quickly create a new account with your gmail or yahoo account. For this class you will use the account Mrs. James created for you.
We will explore Diigo's features today - we will utilize Diigo to conduct research - as a group to create Blog Guidelines and Internet Safety. Highlighted features:HighlighterSticky NotesImport Delicious BookmarksCreate listToolbar add on

Tuesday, September 14

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nice job on the E-Trade BabyMail posts! Please make sure that if you have not reflected upon the E-Trade BabyMail tool that you do so today. Please post a link of the example that you created somewhere in your post.

When class starts, please be on the class agenda page to see what we are doing today. You should not be on any other website. You also need to stay on whatever website is assigned for the day.

On your own time:

Please remove your last name from your blog.
Make sure ALL links work properly on your blog and wiki
Make sure all accounts are listed on our class wiki - MEEZ, WIKI, EMAIL, BLOG
CLEAN UP YOUR BLOG if it is not user friendly - or something is strange on it.
Make sure ALL of your classmates blogs are on your blog.

Take notes on your wiki page - create a new page for each tool we go over from here on out.

We have a lot to cover - a lot of tools to get to this semester.

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Mrs. James will go over the following with you today:

ABC order student blogs on your blog

make sure you have all students on there

How do I change my wiki page names?
Mrs. James changed the agenda page - NEW BLOG click here
Show history - to revert wiki page
Search wiki
Symbaloo - Edit Tiles, Edit Web Mixes, Share Webmix
Make Symbaloo start up page
Rearrange Gadgets on blog
Add/Remove Gadgets
Do you know how to create links?
Embed HTML? Widget on Wiki - Gadget on Blog
Review tool evaluation - make sure you add links! and pictures! or examples.
Review Delicious

ASSIGNMENT

Post your E-Trade Talking Message url on Our Favorite Tools Blog - Put your name and link your name to the URL - find the post and edit it to add your link.
Post 5 reasons why a person should use Delicious.
Post - Reflect, evaluate, share Delicious tool on blog

Aug - September 10 Agenda

Friday, September 10

Today you will:

Review reasons a person should use Delicious.
Explore talking email message websites.
Create talking photographs with your own picture
Create talking messages and embed them into your blog or wiki pages.
Send talking email message to a teacher, parent or friend
Post your examples on your blog - in a new page or just add the URL
Reflect upon the talking email messages
Create a new page on your blog to showcase your talking messages/photos or just add the URL inside your post - example: click here to view an example
Create a new page on your wiki - either one called Talking Messages, or you may create a page for each tool - example E-Trade Baby Mail, then one for Monk-email
Create a post for each tool that you explored (only one required for Sunday is E-Trade Babymail)

Please read over the tool evaluation link on our class wiki - to make sure you are properly evaluating each tool we go over in class.

Remember - at the beginning of each class period you need to go directly to the Agenda page to see what we are going to do for the day - then wait for Mrs. James to start the class - or if it says to get started - then go ahead and start - otherwise wait. Thanks a bunch!

Remove your LAST NAME on your blog if it is on there. Profile information should be off as well if it has personal information about yourself.

Create a post about reasons a person should use Delicious - create a list of 5.

Please add your blog, email, accounts to our class wiki if yours is not on there. THIS IS MANDATORY. Please go ahead and double check to make sure this information is correct. This is worth 25 points - if any thing is missing - you will receive 0/25 - I am grading these on Monday.

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Wednesday, September 8

Explore social bookmarking tool - Delicious - revisited Symbaloo - compared the two.

What is social bookmarking?
Why do people utilize social bookmarking?
What is the point of tagging a bookmark?

Created a Delicious account and posted link of delicious account on our personal blog.

Added bookmarks to our Delicious account and tagged bookmarks

Check powerschool for missing assignments.

Make sure links work on blog and wiki.

Friday, September 3

What you must complete:

* Create links on your student Wiki page

o Link to class blog - socialmedia3b.blogspot.com

o Link to your blog

* Create a new page on your wiki site for your avatars to be kept on.

* Create a welcome on your wiki page - explaining what your wiki page is going to be used for - sharing tools, etc.

* Create a new post with a MEEZ avatar - evaluate tool - describe its features, strengths, weaknesses, etc.

* Create a social bookmarking account on

o Symbaloo - add several bookmarks to it.

o Delicious (you have to create a yahoo account)

* Change Google browser background with a personal picture

* Evaluate Voki tool if you have not done so

* Add your Delicious Account name to our class wiki ahssocialmedia.wikispaces.com

* Add Meez name account to class wiki - ahssocialmedia.wikispaces.com - Find MEEZ 3b page on the wiki

New Post - textanim.com - evaluate and add example to blog in post.

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Wednesday, September 1

Today students added a blog list and links list to their blogs. They also explored Avatars further.

Blog Lists

On side bar, click add Gadget. Add Blog List
Create Blog List which consists of class blogs
Add each students blog to list
Find each students blog address on Social Media Class Blog
Rename each students blog – with student first name.

Create Links List
o Link to Social Media Class Blog - socialmedia3b.blogspot.com
o Link to Social Media Class Wiki - ahssocialmedia.wikispaces.com
o Link to Student Wiki Page
o Link to Student Web Tool Box - ahssocialmedia.blogspot.com
o Link to Social Media 3o class - socialmedia3b.blogspot.com

Create links on Wiki Welcome Page
o Link to Social Media Class Blog - socialmedia3b.blogspot.com
o Link to Own Student Blog
o Link to Student Web Tool Box - ahssocialmedia.blogspot.com

Create an animated avatar on MEEZ and post it to your blog and Wiki avatar page. Go to each avatar website and create an avatar - post each on your avatar page. You can put the animated avatar as a post or gadget on your blog.

Monday, August 30

Today students created a talking Avatar on Voki.com

Visit our class wiki page for explanation of avatars - click Avatar link on side bar. After voki is complete explore the other avatar websites given on our wiki page.

Students added their speaking avatar to their wiki welcome page and as a post on their blog.

Explain in detail the Voki tool in the post with the avatar.