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PProfessionrofessional al LLearning earning CCommunitommunityy Session V:

How can virtual environments and social networking be used appropriately in the classroom?

Using Today’s Technology to Empower Differentiated Instruction

The Social Networking World

The new way to communicate

Connects people across the world

Public and unavoidable

Nothing is history

What is good “digital citizenship?”Understanding appropriate

and inappropriate behaviorNetwork etiquetteResponsibilityUnderstanding consequences

Explore… Some safe social networks do exist for students to access and use Many are for collaborative efforts with teachers, students, and

parents Club Penguin (Walt Disney Company)

http://www.clubpenguin.com Fanlala (Pop Culture, videos, games)

http://www.fanlala.com TiGed (Taking It Global, global issues)

http://www.tiged.org Think.Com (Learning Community for all)

http://www.think.com Piczo (Safe network for teens)

http://www.piczo.com

Explore… Or, try Edmodo. It is supported by Austin ISD.

Clayton Teacher’s account creation code:

cypiwg

BlogsShort for “weblog”, a term invented by

Jorn Barger in 1997.Work for journaling, commentary,

sharing newsCan contain links and multimedia filesEasy to follow and create

Educational Blogs For teachers:

Networking Instructional strategies Assignments and homework Communication with home Annotated links

For student use: Journaling Assignment submission Dialogue for group work E-portfolios

Explore: Free Blog Sites

Educational Blogs Edutopia www.edutopia.org Moving at the Speed of Creativity

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ 2 Cents Worth—Teaching and Learning in the

Information Age http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ MrMartinsClass mrmartinsclass.blogspot.com

Start your own Glogster http://www.glogster.com/ Blogger (powered by Google) Blogger by Google Edublogs http://edublogs.org/ Wordpress http://wordpress.com/ Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/

What’s a Wiki? A wiki is a website whose users can add,

modify, or delete its content via a web browser using a simplified mark-up language or a rich-text editor. (Wikipedia)

Can be public or private Can be used to create and share

information, complete projects, discuss. Most are free and accessible through

school servers.

Explore Wikis Educational wikis

Clayton PBWikis:

Ms Lawson

A Flat Classroom/Flat Classroom Projects

http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/

Technology Resources

http://hmtech.wikispaces.com/

Single Project Wikis

http://flatstanleytexas.pbworks.com/

Choose Your Own Wiki Adventure

http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/necc2006

Create!

What would you post if you had a blog or wiki for your classroom? What would be your purpose?

Create a blog or wiki for your classroom.

Help:AtomicLearning: Blogger WorkshopPBWorks: Training ModulesEdmodo: Teacher Tool Kit