you blog: networks of people and info

Most used by kids: for networking (people and info)...

CREATE A NETWORK FOR CONVERSATIONS/COLLABS ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO LEARN

p e o p l e

1. collab via passion personal learning network

This is their facebook....such as a ning: allows chat in and out of class, housing virtual chalkboard, form study groups, collabs with others outside of class (school, community, us, world) - COOLEST THING - KIDS TAKE OVER

other kid plns where groups are forming to study: quizlet..
passion project via networks: the catapult, the composer,
playing for change "we can do a lot more for this world if we work together"

.......YOU join TSD Tech Ning now...

and maybe start your own: Ning

my plns: house them all somewhere and use same username and password

talk-ed, twitter - for self, triiibes, edu ning, classroom 2.0, education without borders , k-12 online conf,...

via Will Richardson - do it for yourself 1st, ..your class 2nd

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JOIN A NETWORKING PLATFORM THAT KIDS ARE ALREADY IMMERSED IN
p l a c e s

2. collab about work mobile devices

add to phone w/texting: google (466-453) / flickr (they give you a link) / twitter (us:40404) / polleverywhere, chacha ,

ipods - a whole new world

wiki wetpaint, skype, dabbleboard /skitch (mac), voicethread,

flipvideo, youtube

......YOU - add one now to your phone and test it - or to laptop and chat/draw with it.

examples: skype , wetpaint, voicethread, jing, dabbleboard/flockdraw, broadcasts, tutorials, me videos, ipod

good read: 5 best uses of cell phones

good example: texting to learn/teach math

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INVEST IN A NETWORK THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO ALWAYS BE LEARNING
i n f o order out of chaos

3. collab /organize data twitter

twitter on ning - via 3 yahoo pipes

project twitter feed, like backchannel in class
.......YOU join Twitter,now
recommends to follow... for starters:
@courosa, @shellterrell, @bengrey, @smartinez, @coolcatteacher, @budtheteacher, @lasic, @rmbyrne, @ozge, @cybraryman1, @tomwhitby, @NMHS_Principal, @karlfisch, @davecormier, @web20classroom, @willrich45

for organization:

diigo

icyte

simplybox

dropbox

wetpaint

examples: icyte, wetpaint: math, stuco, tabletop, diigo: my groups, my library

i currently use netvibes to house all my projects - mostly for my access - i link everyone else to where to go

diigo and more currently icyte to organize info (evernote is very popular,.. i haven't used it yet)

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To share all we are doing/learning... we creaed this voicethread: school.

we chose voicethread because a voicethread can continually be tweaked.

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you blog my posts on networking:

clay shirky's 2009 ted talk on networking

on disrupting class

network no longer scam only

on why kids don't like school

my story

how we started class this year

highlights from a most incredible paper - best take away - being usefully ignorant, knowing what to do when you don't know what to do

on what kids learn when they create digital media - via the digital project

on what really is new?

on static content vs open sourced

on the ideas project

on learning to learn

and.... my e2t2 reflections from last session last round.

my kool beans tech list: - organized by need to: 
communicate/research/organize/collaborate/create

redefining assessment   

for collaborations/networking

balloon hunt and an assessment of a different color

portfolio vs accreditation .   

looking for people that are talking about things that will help me do my job, - David Warlick on the purpose of networking - "mining a conversation."