Session 2 - Contributing to the Community

This session will act as an introduction to the use of blogs, wikis and and other social networking tools to share knowledge and ideas with others in your professional and personal communities. The emphasis will be on the use of these tools by those in attendance, but we will also explore some ideas for using these tools with students.

 

 

 

Blogging

Learning 2.0 @ SIAST - Blogging - Information on getting started with Blogger.

 

• Blogger - You can use your Google ID for this
• Edublogs - Free blogs for education
• Wordpress.com

 

 

For links to some great blogs, see Session One.

 

• Weblogs in Schools (Will Richardson)

 

 

 

Communities

For some introductory information to online communities, see Session One.

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Ning
  • BTC Community eLearning - eLearning @ Bellingham Technical College
  • College 2.0 - Higher Education, Online Education and Web 2.0
  • Willow Glen 2.0 - Not related to education, this Ning community is made up of people living in the same neighborhood.
• SCoPE - Online community for those interested in education, educational technology and instructional design

 

 

 

Flickr

Flickr is an online photo sharing Web site. You can put up photographs that only you can see, only you and your friends and family can see, or anyone can see.

 

• Learning 2.0 @ SIAST - Flickr - Information on getting started with Flickr.
• Flickr for Student Assessment (video with some great ideas)

 

 

Social Bookmarking del.icio.us faves.com

 

 

Wikis

 

The mother of all wikis - Wikipedia

 

Education

• EC&I 831 - Computer in the Classroom - course wiki for undergraduate education course at the University of Regina.
  • Software and Online Tools for Education - Extensive and useful list of tools that can be used in education

• Oklahoma WWII Wiki - wiki created about the history of people from Oklahoma in WWII and about the USS Oklahoma battleship, which was sunk at Pearl Harbor

• Parts Wiki
• St Francois Xavier Community School - wiki used as the Web site for an entire school.

 

Not Exactly Education

• Muppet Wiki
• Scrapbooks etc. Wiki (from Better Homes and Gardens)

 

Get Your Own Wiki

• PBWiki
• WetPaint
• Wikispaces

 

Podcasts

 

Check out Session One for a list of some podcasts.

 

 

• Creating a Podcast with Audacity on a Windows PC - Quick, but informative tutorial from Penn State.
• Creating a Podcast with Audacity on a Macintosh - Another one from Penn State.
• Here's a short video tutorial from Bellingham Technical College on how to create a podcast and upload it using Audacity, Lame Library and Podbean.

 

 

• Audacity - Free, open-source tool for creating podcasts.
• Podbean - Web site that offers free hosting of Podcasts. Easy to use.