Description: Keeping up with the collaborative sharing of information on the web, which grows exponentially each day, has become a problem. How does an educator keep up with blogs, micro-blogs, social networks and email in order to learn from others and contribute their expertise in a timely and meaningful fashion?
My Notes:
- In 2009, workers will spend 40% of their time managng their Inbox. To help with this, use email filters. Set up "rules", create folders or labels for items that can be filed. Use your archive folders and manage your sent items.
Hardware to help you:
- "Netbooks" - tiny laptop, great for traveling, great for accessing the Internet and checking email.
- Smart Phone - like the iPhone - lots of applications
- For email only, try the Peek. The device is only $49.95 and the service is only $19.95 per month. Click here to learn more about Peek.
- For your favorite Internet content and Pandora radio, get a Chumby. Chumby is a device that collects and displays all of your favorite Internet content and streams Pandora Internet radio. Click here to learn more about Chumby.
- Use your cell phone's camera to take pictures of charts, whiteboards, etc. in workshops.
Software and Web apps to help you:
- RSS and News Readers - you set it up and they will go out and collect all of the news you read into one place. A popular reader is Google Reader.
- iGoogle - set up your Google homepage with gadgets that deliver customized content on your browser homepage.
- Google Alert - set up an alert so that you're notified each time your name or your institution's name is searched/mentioned.
- Ning - a social network site that allows you to create your own social network with forums, and much more. Several teachers are using this as a collaborative tool. You create your network, and then invite people to join it. Click here to learn more about Ning.
- Classroom 2.0 - a social network of educators interested in Web 2.0 tools and their application in the classroom.
- Microblogging - Twitter is the most popular right now. In 140 characters or less, you can post updates and information, and follow others who are "Twittering". For example, click here for Oprah Winfrey's Twitter.
- Online Bookmarking, for example, Firefox's "Foxmarks".
- Social Bookmarking - see who linked to you and then get their links. Two popular ones are Del.icio.us and Diig.
- Online task lists - for example, "Remember the Milk", which works with Twitter, Blackberry, iPhone, and Google Calendar. Click here for more information about Remember the Milk.
- Collaborative documents - Google Docs.
- Cloud Storage - remember "cloud computing". Here's a website where you can access 10GB of storage space called "Glide". Click here for more information about Glide.
- Thinkature - working together in real time. Click here for more information about Thinkature.
Kathy also recommended the book, "Drinking from the Fire Hose".
For more information about Kathy Schrock's presentation, click here. There are links to everything that she mentioned, plus some new links. Enjoy!
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