RSS,+Bookmarks+&+Sharing+Space

= **Coaching session @ SMPS Thursday 2/4/09 1.30pm-3.30pm** =


 * RSS feeds** ([|**Pageflakes**]) http://icttoolkit.wikispaces.com/RSS\

Example http://delicious.com/ppps6 [] [] [] [] [|http://delicious.com/FindonPS]
 * Bookmarking** ([|Del.icio.us]) http://icttoolkit.wikispaces.com/social+bookmarking

//h[|ttp://delicious.com/millparkseniorhttp]:[Similar, but more functionality than google docs. Keep files in sync across your computers. Share files with friends. Access your files from any computer. Together with [[http://home.services.spaces.live.com/|SPACES], students and teachers have up to 35GB of online space
 * File share** (Office Live Workspaces) [|Microsoft's online workspace].

[|Twitter], how a little bit of creativity can make this tool genuinely useful. //[|Can we use Twitter for educational activities?] Twitter is the most popular microblogging application, with almost one million users called twitterers, who can send and receive messages via the web, SMS, instant messaging clients, and by third party applications. Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length.
 * Instant Chat** http://icttoolkit.wikispaces.com/Social+Networking

I’m also convinced that it can be useful in the classroom if a feed is projected during a lecture or activity. If it can avoid becoming a distraction, then all students need to do is add a search tag (precede a given word with a #) and all “tweets” containing that search tag can be highlighted and projected using a tool like [|TweetDeck]. Questions for the teacher? Comments on the subject matter? Answer a quick poll in class without the expense of interactive response systems? All of these can be done with Twitter. I’ve used it to facilitate collaboration on projects, group discussion, sharing links, and even keeping track of students during field trips.

Twitter (and services like it) represent a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. We’re doing our students a disservice by excluding it from the classroom. It’s free; we just need to find the best ways to harness its power while limiting the possibility for distraction.// Ed ZDNET- blog

Heather's Twitter resources: [|The Edublogger: quick start tips for new twitters] A very sensible guide for people new to twitter, lots of good advice and ideas. [|Bailie's bus: two weeks on twitter] What I wrote on my blog when I’d been on twitter for 2 weeks. [|Twitter for teachers wiki] A wiki that people can add themselves to. [|Jane hart's directory of learning professionals on Twitter] [] Another guide to twitter, more formal. [|Just Tweet it: education] Another directory, this link is for education but there are lots of other categories [|Twitter: teaching and learning tool] A teacher from the UK talks about how he uses twitter in the classroom, see also his other blog post: [|Plan, tweet, teach, tweet, learn, smile] [|Teaching with Twitter] More suited to senior students/tertiary level but some interesting ideas none the less. [] A user powered twitter directory.