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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Social Media in the Classroom
- Intro
- Blogger
- What is a blog? (web-log)
- What are the benefits?
- Web-based: Accessibility, Compatibility, etc.
- Students, parents, etc.
- Ease of Use: If you can use a word processor, you can run a blog.
- Promotes student interaction, interest, and creativity
- Built-in Archive
- Searchable
- Works well with all Google Products
- Flexibility and Potential
- What are the drawbacks?
- Web-based: Lack of internet access, filters, etc.
- Learning Curve
- HTML Quirks
- Doesn't always play well with mobile devices (iPad input)
- Increased Responsibility
- Setting up an account
- Creating a Post
- Title
- Text
- Links
- Pictures
- Video
- Extras: Tags, Scheduling, Location, "Options"
- Customizing Your Blog
- "Theme"
- Layout
- "Gadgets" or "Widgets"
- Advantages
- Hit them where they live
- Very capable of being appropriate and safe
- Instant Access
- Disadvantages
- Preconceived Notions
- A new avenue for inappropriate behavior
- The "Group" or "Fan Page" Setup
- Capabilities
- Video
- Pictures
- Links
- Discussion
- Documents
- Advantages
- Unparalleled Info
- Much less personal than Facebook
- Can be set up as an automatic "feed"
- ?
- The Disadvantages
- Less popular, but gaining.
- Setting up an account
- Discovery
- Sharing
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Google Apps: Discover, Create, Share
- What are "Google Apps"?
- Who has access?
- What is the cost?
- What are the benefits?
- Got Gmail? You're in!
- Compatibility
- Accessibility
- Cost
- Share-ability
- Virtually no maintenance (updates)
- Integration amongst apps
- Ease of Use
- Potential
- Requires a bare-minimum of resources
- What are the drawbacks?
- May not be quite as powerful or polished as a product from Windows, Mac, etc.
- Google: a lot of irons in the fire
- Offline?
- Featured Apps:
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