Blogs, Wikis, Facebook, and More

Instructional Uses for the Classroom

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Blog

“a Web site that contains an online

personal journal with reflections,

comments, and often hyperlinks

provided by the writer”

Merriam-Webster Online

How can a classroom teacher use a blog?

Communicate with parents and students

Presentation format for projects

Storage for content information

Resource for professional growth

Classroom Blogs

http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/

http://huzzah.edublogs.org/

Get Started with EduBlog!

◦ http://edublogs.org/curriculum-corner-class-

blogs/

Dr. Rogers’ Physics Class Blog

http://titanphysics.blogspot.com/

Physics student posted their reports. Classmates then posted their comments.

Required writing one large post each term

Required weekly reading of classmates’ posts

Teacher Professional Growth

Special Ed Blog

http://digitalanthology.blogspot.com/

Technology Tips

http://thespian70.blogspot.com/

Science Blog

http://www.sciencefix.com/

Library Media Specialists

http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/

Wiki

“a web site that allows anyone

to add, delete, or revise content

by using a web browser” (Dictionary.com)

http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2011/05/top-10-sites-for-creating-wiki.html

Who should use wikis?

Wikis are for everyone!

◦ Students

◦ Teachers

◦ Administrators

◦ Athletic Teams

◦ Clubs

◦ Anyone who wants to publish or share

information on the Web

Where do you find wikis?

Wikispaces

www.wikispaces.com

Where do you find wikis?

PBWorks

www.pbworks.com

Where do you find wikis?

Google Sites

https://sites.google.com/

Where do you find wikis?

WET PAINT- Educational Wikis

http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

Example Wikis

http://aetcrogerssam.wikispaces.com/

http://physics-

trebuchet.wikispaces.com/home

http://titan-

physics.wikispaces.com/Titan+Physics+20

09

https://sites.google.com/site/holyspiritsocc

er/

Facebook for the Classroom???

Great for class projects

◦ Gets students to use a familiar social tool to

present school work

Super communication tool

◦ Communicate with parents and teachers with

a private group

◦ Easy to update

◦ Parents/students check frequently

“FAKEBOOKS”

Choose a scientist of historical

importance.

Create a “FakeBook page for this scientist.

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page

Example-

http://www.classtools.net/fb/85/AKL68b#

Friends (1,346)

Bio

Thomas Edison

Currently trying to improve the telegraph transmitter…I’ve just realized that the tape of the machine gives off a noise resembling spoken words when you play it at a high speed. Interesting…

Thomas Edison

I am going to try create a phonograph using a metal cylinder with tin foil wrapped around it..

Henry Ford

How are you going to get your machine to work?

Thomas Edison

Well the machine will play cylinders rather than discs and have two needles; one for recording and one for playback The idea is that when you speak into a mouthpiece, the sound vibrations will be dented onto the cylinder by the recording needle in a vertical hollow pattern.

Henry Ford

Sounds promising. Keep us updated.

John KruesI

Hey Tom. I’m almost done building the phonograph from your sketches. You can come test it soon!

As a child, I liked spending my time reading at the local library. I was homeschooled for a few years before I got my first job selling newspapers. In 1868 I began my career as an inventor in Boston.

Birthday February 11, 1847* Hometown Milan, Ohio* Relationship Status Married to Mina Miller Sex Male

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Alexander

Graham Bell

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Friends (1,346)

Bio

John Kruesl

Hey Tom. I’m almost done building the phonograph from your sketches. You can come test it soon!

Thomas Edison

IT WORKS! My phonograph just played back “Mary had a little lamb!” I would say it’s been a pretty good day.

Thomas Edison

I’ve just been invited to the White House to demonstrate my phonograph to President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Thomas Edison

Tired of using candles to see? Well I am working on improving incandescent light, and who knows, maybe we will all have electric power soon!

J.P. Morgan

Mr. Edison I would like to fund your inventions and talk about the prospect of an electric company.

Thomas Edison

After performing over 1000 experiments and endless search, I’ve finally found the perfect filament. I have created a light bulb using carbonized filaments from cotton thread.

As a child, I liked spending my time reading at the local library. I was homeschooled for a few years before I got my first job selling newspapers. In 1868 I began my career as an inventor in Boston.

Birthday February 11, 1847* Hometown Milan, Ohio* Relationship Status Married to Mina Miller Sex Male

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Alexander

Graham Bell

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Friends (1,346)

Bio

Thomas Edison

After performing over 1000 experiments and endless search, I’ve finally found the perfect filament. I have created a light bulb using carbonized filaments from cotton thread. It is super practical for home use!

Thomas Edison

People of lower Manhattan, get ready for the world’s first electric light power station.

Juliette Gordon Low

Can’t wait to get electricity!

Thomas Edison

Next Project: I am going to do for the eye what the phonograph does to the ear. Get ready for motion pictures! Wohoo

Thomas Edison

My Kinetoscope is going to record and reproduce objects in motion!

As a child, I liked spending my time reading at the local library. I was homeschooled for a few years before I got my first job selling newspapers. In 1868 I began my career as an inventor in Boston.

Birthday February 11, 1847* Hometown Milan, Ohio* Relationship Status Married to Mina Miller Sex Male

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Alexander

Graham Bell

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Thomas Edison

Me

By Thomas Edison (Albums) * Updated 1 week ago

My beautiful wife, Mina Edison, with whom I have three great children.

The Phonograph!

Me with one of my most beloved inventions, the phonograph.

Me when I was little.

The light bulb!

Facebook for Communication

Top 10 Ways to Use Twitter

1. Tweet Assignments/Due Dates

2. Provide a classroom news feed to keep

parents informed

3. Follow current issues in the news

4. Track career interests/engage with

professionals

5. Foreign language teachers can have

students use their skills to translate

feeds from other nations

Top 10 Ways to Use Twitter

6. Connect with other classrooms around

the world

7. Live Tweet a book or movie review

8. Create a progressive poem

9. Have students tweet lesson summaries

10. Create a fictional historical character

and tweet as if you were that person

http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

Network with Twitter

Use Twitter to collaborate or learn from educators around the world

Subscribe to the #educhat:

Twitter for Librarians:

http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/a-guide-to-twitter-in-libraries/

Twitter Guide for Teachers:

http://www.edudemic.com/2010/06/the-ultimate-twitter-guidebook/

Other…

Edmodo- allows teachers to collaborate, send notes, post assignments, conduct polls, etc. in a safe environment

http://www.edmodo.com/

I-Tunes U- access thousands of lectures or create your own course

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

TwitPic- Create a picture scavenger hunt

http://twitpic.com/

Jing- Capture your computer screen with audio voice over

http://jing.en.softonic.com/

AETC 2013

Dr. Reenay R. H. Rogers

The University of West Alabama

rrogers@uwa.edu

(205) 652-5423