Tuesday

Tuesday

RSS

Social Bookmarking

Wikis

ARTICLE DISCUSSION (required)

1. Can you identify some things that we are doing with technology that are doing:

Old Things in Old Ways
Old Things in New Ways
New Things in New Ways

2. What would it look like at your teaching level to “consult the students”? How do we, “combine what they know about technology with what we know and require about education”?

3. What did you learn from your reading last night that might help with question 2?

RSS (required)

What is RSS and how do I use it?
Bloglines
Safari RSS

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING (required)

What's Social Bookmarking?

Del.icio.us

Links
Tags and Bundles
Network
Sharing
RSS
Why use del.icio.us?
1. Lets you save bookmarks that can be used on multiple machines
2. Share websites with students and peers
3. Publish saved links by categories
4. Tag your bookmarks
5. Learn about new websites from other del.icio.us users
6. Subscribe to other users' del.icio.us bookmarks
7. Think about this for research! You can subscribe to the kids' bookmarks.
8. Create unique class tags
Help1 with Del.icio.us
Help2 with Del.icio.us
Tutorial

Furl (optional)

The Furl Button
Links
Saving a page
Editing
Sharing
Why use Furl?
1. Lets you save bookmarks that can be used on multiple machines
2. Share websites with students and peers
3. Publish saved links by categories
4. Categorize your links.
5. Learn about new websites from other "Furl Mates"
6. Subscribe to other users' Furl who look for similar web sites as you do.
7. Export your bookmarks into a bibliography
8. Furl saves a copy of the web page. If it is moved or deleted, you still have access to the pages
  you bookmarked.
Furl help1
Furl help2

WIKIS (optional)

What's a wiki
Wiki Tools: Edublogs (comes with your blog)
pbwiki
FAQ

Websites to explore

Reading

For Wednesday:

Homework

For Wednesday:

Go to Bloglines and set up some RSS feeds that you would use in your classroom.
Link your bloglines account to your blog
Set up a del.icio.us account. Link your del.icio.us account to your blog.
Look at other students' blogs (in our class) and find the people who have the same goals as you do. Subscribe to their blogs. All student blogs will be linked through our class blog
Make a comment on another student's blog about their reading comments.
Reflect on your blog: Here's what I have learned that I want to try using in my classroom.
Post a reflection on your blog about the article Teaching Critical Thinking through Online Discussions. Make sure you use a category that make sense to you.
Bring a set of headphones
Bring your digital camera.