Social Networking - Facebook and Nings

Learn how to use Facebook to stay connected to your favorite professional organizations.  Also, we will show you how to catch your student's interests with Ning!  We will model how to make reading and writing part of your students' profiles.  Finally we will demonstrate how to create word clouds to help your students collaborate and brainstorm on any topic in the classroom.

http://www.wordle.net/

Ning

http://education.ning.com/ - educational ning

http://techliaison.ning.com/ - Example Professional Ning

http://scwritingprojects.ning.com/ - A newly formed Professional Ning bringing different State sites together

Podcasting and Vodcasting with Nings-

To podcast you can just attach a mp3 or wma file to any discussion or blog post or replay.
To post video to a ning you can upload it under the Video tab. The video must be under 100mb. This is a tough size to meet and may require resizing. An alternative to this is to use an external website such as vimeo.com to upload the

Facebook

Apps

• Book review apps
  • Visual book shellf
  • WeRead
• Flip cards

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Paper Social Networking Exercise

Drawing out your social network based on your contacts from your phone. Who are your key contacts? Your contacts that connect you to the most people? You already have a social network, how has your social network help you? What sub groups do you have within your IRL social network? School, Work, Home, Church, Significant others work?

Contacts:

tech@upstatewritingproject.org

Jasonkaminski@upstatewritingproject.org

ingapuffer@upstatewritingproject.org

lisawilbanks@upstatewritingproject.org