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= July 2, Day 1 =

ded318@gmail.com Please use this email for all course questions This class is front loaded, more and harder in the beginning, and it gets easier as the days pass. We will try to complete as much as possible during class time.

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= = =**1...Your Internet Browser**= When you are home using a Windows PC for some assignments, DO NOT use Internet Explorer. Many of the Web 2.0 tools we will be using do not work well with Internet Explorer and also Chrome and sometimes even Safari.Please use Firefox!
 * ====Free for Mac & PC====
 * ====Mozilla Firefox [|www.mozilla.com]====

I will be using Firefox in class!!
2. Social Bookmarking

====**Join**  the ** [|Kansas Educators Diigo] ** site. Change the Alert Setting to weekly. I will “feed” you resources to add to your own Educational Resources website. ==== ====**Next**  decide which social bookmarking tool you would like to use. Right now, Pinterest seems to be leading the popularity contest. And admittedly, I find myself using Pinterest most often. But you may choose, so, take a look at all three listed below before you decide which fits your personality **and work ethic best**. ==== ====You may use [|Pinterest] , [|Delicious]  or even create your own [|Diigo] group as well as follow the Kansas Educators Diigo. ====
 * 1) ==== [|Pinterest] : Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love. Not sure how effective Pinterest will be, but if you like it you are welcome to try it. ====
 * 2) ==== [|Delicious] <span class="style_3">: Social bookmarking in an organized way ====
 * 3) ====== [|Diigo] <span class="style_3">: Social bookmarking, but best of all a way for your teacher to share resources with you. ======

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====Pinterest: A Beginner’s Guide to the Hot New Social Network ====

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QtmmGA0M_yk
**Here is the Link to Cyndi's Pinterest so you can follow: @http://pinterest.com/cyndidk/ **

__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Delicious __
==== Ultimate Guide to Delicious Social Bookmarking ==== ====So Delicious: A Must-Use Bookmarking Tool: @http://www.edutopia.org/so-del-icio-us ==== ====Here is a link to Cyndi.s course Delicious: @http://www.delicious.com/tt4l ====

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 24.3333px;">Diigo.....Join and follow
==== Diigo Beginner Guide: Install and Use Diigo Toolbar - YouTube ==== ==== Using Diigo for Collaborative Curation ====

Diigo Explained:
==== @http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nkrHFM3s8Bc ==== ====**Here is the Link our Kansas Educators Diigo. You will need to create an account and join this group.**====

@http://groups.diigo.com/group/k_state-preservice

 * ====I suggest you change the **alert setting**, from immediately to either daily or weekly**.**====
 * ====Joining this group will give you an email daily or weekly (//depending on your alert setting//) with all the resources that have been bookmarked by me and other members of the group, maybe even you!!====
 * ====You should explore the resources in the email each time it comes.====
 * ====Find the resources that interest you and then bookmark those resources in your **Pinterest** or **Delicious**.====
 * ====By the end of the semester your should have **not less than 250** resources and now it should be a habit and hopefully you have let go of traditional bookmarking in your browser that only saves bookmarks on your computer.====

====Now that you have spent a little time exploring **Pinterest**, and **Delicious**, choose one and create an account so you can use it to save, organize and keep track of resources shared during this course, other classes, as well as, resources you find.==== ====By the end of the semester your should have **not less than 250 resources** and now it should be a habit. This is an amazing way to keep track of educational resources to use in your teaching and learning.====
 * 1) ====**Pinterest** requires an invite, so shoot me an email (**ded318@gmail.com**) and I will send you an invite. Make sure you install the Pin It button on your Firefox browser toolbar. [[image:ded318online2012summer/Screen_Shot_2012-05-12_at_4.10.27_PM.png]]====
 * 2) By the way if you already have a Pinterest account, just use it and add some educational board like Technology, Teaching, Classroom Ideas, etc.
 * 3) ====**Delicious** also will need to have the buttons installed on the Firefox toolbar. [[image:ded318online2012summer/Screen_Shot_2012-05-12_at_4.09.40_PM.png]]====

= 3. Purchasing the place to host your Website =



Instructions for purchasing your web space. This needs to be done IMMEDIATELY!!
//<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 24px;">The Purchase of your web space replaces the purchase of a book. //

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= Your Website/URL information =

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=**We will do this Day 2 in class, but if you want to get a head start, go for it....**=

1. Choose your **Theme**, remember you can change your mind later and as many times as you want. But eventually, you need to choose a theme and stick with it.
====2. There are a few themes that are a bit funky and don't work properly, I will let you know if if you choose one of those.==== ====3. Add your first post to your WP website on the **About Me Page**, see **PDF** below (//Getting StartedWP Post//) with step-by-step instructions..==== ====4. Your first post will be **About You**, an introduction to who you are and it will be added to the **About Me Page** along with an appropriate photo of yourself.==== ====5. The good news is............ once you learn to do this, you will know how to do 75% of what you will be doing over and over. again on your WP website.====

It will walk you through what to do step-by-step.
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6. Next you will add a list of Links/Blogroll. Instructions are also in the **PDF** above (//Getting StartedWP Post//).
====Make sure you take advantage of the tutorials listed above, some are step-by-step written and some are videos. I am sure there is at least one that fits your learning style.====

__** iPad Users **__

====Install the WordPress App on your iPad.==== ==== @http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8 ====

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====It works great, I actually use it all the time for my [|Technology Bits, Bytes and Nibbles] blog. But, I will tell you, it is easier to do the initial setup for your blog on an computer and then use the app for adding content.====

====Likely there is an app for the iPad that can mimic and substitute for practically everything we do. Some Free, some not, but there are solutions. I will do my best to make those app suggestions as we go along. And something you do from the web just like you would from a computer.====

= = =The best Resources for learning about Word Clouds=
 * 5. Fun with Text **
 * =====Start with Tom Barrett’s [|Forty-Four Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom] .=====
 * =====Check out Shelly Terrell’s [|12 Word Cloud Resources, Tips, & Tools] .=====
 * =====Marisa Constantinides has [|another great post with word cloud examples] .=====
 * =====Phil Bradley also has a [|nice post comparing word cloud apps] [|.]=====
 * =====Michael Gorman has a great post with a lengthy title: [|I Can Back Off My Blogging, Turn Down My Tweeting, And Even Wrap Up My Wiki, But I Can’t Wane My Wordling] [|.] At the bottom of that post you can also find links to several other Wordle-related posts he has written.=====
 * =====Michael Gorman has a great post with a lengthy title: [|I Can Back Off My Blogging, Turn Down My Tweeting, And Even Wrap Up My Wiki, But I] [|Can’t Wane My Wordling] [|.] At the bottom of that post you can also find links to several other Wordle-related posts he has written.=====
 * =====“Learning With Computers,” the excellent online global community of ESL/EFL teachers exploring how to effectively use technology with students, has this month’s activity focused on [|using word clouds with students]. Check-out the wiki filled with examples, and contribute your own.=====
 * ===== [|Tagxedo] is a new and neat word cloud generator. [|The creator of Wordle] calls it //not so much an “alternative” to Wordle as much as “Wordle – the next generation”.//=====
 * =====Russell Stannard from Teacher Training Videos has just made a [|“how to” video on creating and using different Word Cloud generators] . He also has written a good post titled “ [|What Is A Word Cloud?”] =====
 * ===== [|War Words] is an interesting interactive from The Wall Street Journal. It shows “word clouds” to illustrate how U.S. Presidents have spoken about the Iraq War since 2003. I’m including it in this post as an example of how they can be used.=====
 * ===== [|The Answer Garden] is an intriguing combination of a survey tool and a word cloud generator. Without requiring any registration, it lets you pose a question to which people can write their own short answers. The answers appear as a word cloud below the question, with the words changing in size based on how often they are used in responses. Responders have the option of writing in their own answer or clicking on one of the words already in the word cloud. The entire “garden” can be embedded in a blog or website, and you can also link to it. The fact that anybody can answer anything to the question without identifying themselves makes it problematic — to say the least — in many school settings. But in certain mature situations, it could be very useful.=====
 * ===== [|Free Tools Challenge #10: Word clouds with Wordle] comes from Edublogs.=====
 * =====Type in a user name into [|Tweet Topic Explorer] and you’ll get a multi-colored word cloud in “bubbles.”=====
 * ===== [|Using Wordles To Teach Foreign Language Writing] is a useful study.=====
 * ===== [|Summer PD: New Teacher Boot Camp Week 1 – Using Wordle] comes from Edutopia.=====
 * ===== [|Word clouds considered harmful] is an interesting post from the Nieman Journalism Lab.=====
 * ===== [|HTML5 Word Cloud: Text Analyzer] is from [|Devalyne Britt] via [|Laura Gibbs] .=====
 * =====Jason Davies has developed a new [|interactive world cloud generator] that lets you use Twitter, Wikipedia or a URL address.=====




 * 1) ==== Using [|Wordle] create an image that describes you using Wordle! Minimum of 25 words, but the more words the better!, the more words you use, the more interesting your design will be.====
 * 2) ==== Take a screen capture (//picture//) of your design, this will give you an image that can be added to your blog/website. <span class="style_2">See instructions on the below under **Learn how to** for how make a screen capture. ====
 * 3) ====**Now make a SECOND Fun with Text project **,<span class="style_1"> using [|Tagexdo], <span class="style_1">OR [|Tagul]<span class="style_1"> OR [|WordItOut] or one of the tools mentioned in the resources above or from the options listed on the Fun with Text page from the resources on the Technology Keys Wiki.====
 * 4) ==== The topic for this second image should be teaching **OR** education **OR** school **OR** technology **OR** teachers **OR** your content area, OR....???? Something/anything related to education.====
 * 5) ==== Take a screen capture of your second design, this will give you another image that will be added to the same post/place on your WP website.====
 * 6) ====Write a reflection about how you think you could use these types of tools in your classroom, make sure your reflection has at least one specific curriculum idea and show both the images your made.====
 * 7) ====** Title it: Fun with Text-Word Clouds **====



If you discover another app, let me know and I will add to the list.

 * 6. Edmodo and Social Networking in Schools **

> ====Click the I’m a **Student button**. ====
 * 1) ====We will also be using the educational social networking site just a little bit, Edmodo [|http://www.edmodo.com]. (**Group Code:** onqyzf).====
 * 2) ====Create an account ,====
 * 3) [[image:http://ded318spring2012.cdkedplace.info/Spring_2012_DED_318/Week-by-Week/Entries/2012/1/21_Week_2_files/Screen%20Shot%202012-01-21%20at%201.36.52%20PM.jpg align="center" caption="external image Screen%20Shot%202012-01-21%20at%201.36.52%20PM.jpg"]]
 * 1) ====Your first task is to add an appropriate photo of yourself (//should be a close-up/mug shot//) to your profile and to introduce yourself to your classmates on our Edmodo site.====
 * 2) ====Please use your ** first and last name ** when creating your student account.====
 * 3) ====Please tell us about who you are, where are you from, where did you go to High School, what about your family, what do you plan to teach, why, what and who influenced you to become a teacher? etc.etc. We want to get to know you! ** Be creative!! **====
 * 4) ==== **ALSO.**..... watch the short recording of the Webinar, ** Introduction to Edmodo. **This webinar gives an overview of the core features of Edmodo, focusing on student and teacher use, and participating in Edmodo Communities. It is important you understand how EDMODO could be used in YOUR classroom. It is being used in many of our local schools and likely you will be using it when you gt out into those classrooms.====
 * 5) ====Click on **HELP** at the very bottom of the page====
 * 6) ====In the Help Center, click on **Webinars**====
 * 7) ====Choose the **Watch this Recording now** for **Introduction to Edmodo**, no need to register for the live event, just watch the recording!====

@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edmodo/id378352300?mt=8

 * 7. Daily Reflections (You will do 2 of these each day) **


 * 1) ====<span class="style_2">[[image:Screen Shot 2011-12-30 at 10.30.59 AM.jpg]] ====
 * 2) ====<span class="style_2">Take some time and explore my blog completely. ** [|http://www.technologybitsbytesnibbles.info] **<span class="style_2"> Dig around and dig deep into Technology Bits, Bytes & Nibbles. ====
 * 3) ====<span class="style_4">Starter questions and ideas to get to started and thinking <span class="style_2">........What did you learn, what did you discover on my blog, did any stories/resources surprise you? How could a blog like this help you as a classroom teacher, how will it help you as a future teacher? etc, etc. ====
 * 4) ====<span class="style_5">REFLECT! <span class="style_2">! Your writing should reflect scholarly thought and writing. This will be the first entry on your website/blog. ====
 * 5) ====** Title the Reflectio **** n: Week 1: Technology Bits, Bytes & Nibbles **====
 * 6) ====<span class="style_8">I suggest you **Subscribe** to my blog via email <span class="style_2">, we will be using it off and on all semester. Although, it does mean you need to read it when it comes in your email each day. Teachers are life long learners and this will point you in the direction of learning more about technology in the classroom. ====
 * 7) ====<span class="style_2">You will write 2 reflections each week. There will be a NEW blog to read **<span class="style_8">OR **<span class="style_2"> Podcast to listen to **<span class="style_8">OR **<span class="style_2"> resources to explore each week, **AND** y <span class="style_8">ou will always write a reflection <span class="style_2">. Each reflection will be added to your blog with a specific title. Your reflections must use the **assigned TITLE** as requested in the assignment. ====
 * 8) ====<span class="style_2">Make sure all your writing is hyperlinked. That means it has live clickable links, like you are finding on this page. Always live links for everything you are talking about. ====
 * 9) ====<span class="style_2">How to make a Hyperlink in Wordpress:  http://www.mcbuzz.com/wordpress/how-to-make-text-link-using-wordpress/ ====
 * 10) ====<span class="style_2">Additionally, make sure all reflections and text on your WP blog include hyperlinks and at least one image that goes with the story. The easiest way to do this is by making a screen capture/shot. See the tutorials above for instructions on making screen captures. ====
 * 1) ====<span class="style_2">Additionally, make sure all reflections and text on your WP blog include hyperlinks and at least one image that goes with the story. The easiest way to do this is by making a screen capture/shot. See the tutorials above for instructions on making screen captures. ====

=<span class="style_8">Your second reflection for Day 1 =

** Title:Week 1: School Technology Solutions, Brad Flickinger **
====<span class="style_2">Explore School Technology Solutions blog completely, especially the story from December 29, ** [|Educational Technology Bill of Rights for Students] **<span class="style_2"> as well as the the weekly Podcast. Would you believe the weekly podcasts are only 5 minutes long each week!! It should also be mentioned that Brad has over 60,000 readers a month.Needless to say he is impacting teachers and classrooms with his blog and podcasts. ====

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====<span class="style_2">Brad Flickinger has been an elementary, middle, and high school teacher, as well as the director of technology which gives him a perspective of teaching all ages of students and what it is like at both the classroom and district levels. He focuses on designing technology curriculum for students from kindergarten to 5th grade. Brad is an educational futurist who specializes in teaching 21st Century Skills to students, teachers and administrators by showing simple and easy tricks to incorporate and integrate technology into everyday lessons. He works with schools to inspire teachers to use these 21st Century Skills to energize and engage students. In addition, he is a consultant and speaker who gives workshops, seminars and conferences to educators on how to do what he does. Brad is the technology teacher at Bethke Elementary School in Timnath, Colorado. ==== > > ====WordPress App: Free==== > ==== @http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8 ====
 * 1) ====<span class="style_2">Make sure all your writing is hyperlinked. That means it has live clickable links, like you are finding on this page. Always live links for everything you are talking about. ====
 * 2) ====<span class="style_2">Additionally make sure all reflections include at least one image that goes with the story. The easiest way to do this is by making a screen capture. See the tutorials page for instruction on making screen captures. ====
 * 3) ====** Title: Week 1: School Technology Solutions, Brad Flickinger **====
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