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! 

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 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:

1. Log into your Meez account
2. Click My Meez, then choose My Roomz
3. Click create room in room makerz.  There will be an advertisement.
4. Choose a "hood"
5. 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. 

1. Symbaloo
2. Delicious
3. 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

1. 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.
2. Post 5 reasons why a person should use Delicious.
3. 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.

1. What is social bookmarking?  
2. Why do people utilize social bookmarking?
3. 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.