digital tools session iii
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Digital ToolsSession III
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Abstract
“Just in time” sessions focusing on a blend of tools needed to complete the courses* and to become successful Digital Leaders
Learning
Collaborating
Communicating
Data Collecting
*Each session will precede the ensuing course(s) in which the
tools will be applied.
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Course Objectives forAll Digital Leadership Unit
Sessions
• Assess prior knowledge of each session’s technology tools.
• Understand the significance and use of online tools for professional use and for teaching.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues as coaches/learners
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Course ObjectivesSession I
• Use external storage for digital documents.
• Create online surveys to gather data.
• Create graphic organizers to efficiently organize information.
• Use wikis to collaborate on document creation.
• Understand Blackboard navigation.
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Course ObjectivesSession II
Navigate an online course management systemSort, filter, subtotal Excel spreadsheet data Use the internet to efficiently find, evaluate, and store information and to legally and ethically share.Develop a personal web presence by developing a personal Protopage.
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Course ObjectivesSession III
• Explore emerging technologies and Web 2.0
• Create a wiki
• Schedule a meeting with Doodle
• Comment in a blog
• Text message and search with your cell phone
• Juice up your PowerPoint with photos and video
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Dr. Scott McLeod, Dangerously Irrelevant
8http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/275872080/sizes/o/
Second Thoughts on Digital Natives
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What technologies do you…
• know about?
• participate in?
• live?
Share with those in your
group
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What’s Your PDI*?
*Personal Digital Infrastructure
(with thanks to David Jakes for the acronym)
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http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf
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One Year
Grassroots Video
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One Year
Collaboration Tools
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Google Docs in Plain English
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One Year
Collaborative Workspaces
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The gap between students’ perception of technology
and that of faculty continues to widen
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Web 1.0
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Web 2.0
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• Simple - easy for anyone to publish their work on the Internet
• Social - easy for people to connect with other people
• Open - easy for websites and computer programs to exchange data with other sources
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
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Ask500people.com
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Course ObjectivesSession III – TODAY’S
AGENDA• Explore emerging technologies and Web
2.0
• Create a wiki
• Schedule a meeting with Doodle
• Comment in a blog
• Text message and search with your cell phone
• Juice up your PowerPoint with photos and video
27http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HNL_Wiki_Wiki_Bus.jpg
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Wikis – web pages which . . .
• permit collaboration
• offer democratization
• provide up-to-date input
• save valuable meeting time
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Wiki + Encyclopedia = Wikipedia
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Creating your own PBWiki• Use handout to
create your own wiki
• Remember to record your password!
• Ask for help if you need it!
• To be used in the next course
Handout #1 Using PBWiki
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Course ObjectivesSession III – TODAY’S
AGENDA• Explore emerging technologies and Web
2.0
• Create a wiki
• Schedule a meeting with Doodle
• Comment in a blog
• Text message and search with your cell phone
• Juice up your PowerPoint with photos and video
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DoodleOnline Event Scheduler
Ever had to schedule a meeting and needed to know who would be available on which dates?
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Practice Doodling
• With your partner, follow steps on handout
• Create a practice Doodle
• Delete when you are finished
Handout #2 Using Doodle
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Course ObjectivesSession III – TODAY’S
AGENDA• Explore emerging technologies and Web
2.0
• Create a wiki
• Schedule a meeting with Doodle
• Comment in a blog
• Text message and search with your cell phone
• Juice up your PowerPoint with photos and video
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Blogging
• Web log of a single author, usually a personal opinion, with frequent or daily entries
• Offers external links to items being discussed in the blog
• Can permit comments from others• Latest posting appears first with older
postings beneath it• Uses free or fee-based online blogging
software
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Blogs in Plain
English
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Who’s Blogging?
Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008
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Where Are They Blogging?
Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008
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Why Are They Blogging?
blog about topics of personal interest not associated with
work
blog about their industry and profession but not in an official
capacity for their employer
blog for their company in an official capacity
Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008
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Why School Leaders Should Blog
• Share news and events
• Monitor progress
• Provide status alerts
• Marketing/PR
• Community building
• Thought leadership
Handout #3 – Why Blog as an Administrator
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Let’s Go Blog Visiting
1. Visit www.leadertalk.org
2. Read through some of the postings.
3. In the right column under “Read More By Us,” click on a name to visit that person’s own blog.
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Commenting on Blogs
• Write a meaningful comment.• Avoid simply agreeing; explain why you
agree• Avoid repeating the content of another
comment in the blog.• If you disagree, criticize kindly. Start
with a compliment and then explain why you disagree
•http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-comment-like-king-or-queen.html
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Darth Commenter
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-comment-like-king-or-
queen.html
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Vickie Davis vs. Darth Commenter
“As you meet DC, you will emerge with your own calling. Without a calling, it is difficult to keep up with the blog and it just becomes a nuisance.
Blogging, if you truly inhale its essence, will give you a calling, renewal, and purpose, as you've never seen before.
Darth Commenter is out there and his goal is to steal your enthusiasm for blogging with his light saber of unkindness. Do not feel compelled for some "noble" reason to post his comment. Delete Darth and never look back.”
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Creating a Blog
Handout #4 Using Wordpress
Use this handout if you wish to set up a blog in WordPress.
Directions for setting up a blog in Blogger can be found in Blackboard in the link to “Introduction to Weblogs.”
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Course ObjectivesSession III – TODAY’S
AGENDA• Explore emerging technologies and Web
2.0
• Create a wiki
• Schedule a meeting with Doodle
• Comment in a blog
• Text message and search with your cell phone
• Juice up your PowerPoint with photos and video
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6 out of 10 teens
7 out of 10 teens
Pew Internet Report – Writing, Technology and Teens – April 2008
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2850101565/
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Vanderwall’s Photostream - http://www.flickr.net/photos/vanderwal/7
54451680/
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“One of my new teachers sent me a text message the other day and I didn’t know how to respond.”
What would
you have
done?
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“One of my new students sent me a text message the other day and I didn’t know how to respond.”
What would
you have
done? Technicolor’s Photostream - http://www.flickr.net/photos/technicolor76/221
2390767/
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Want to learn texting lingo?
http://transl8it.com
Just type in your SMS, text, emoticon, smiley, slang or chat room lingo and let transL8it! con-vert it to plain English –-
OR
- type in your phrase in English and convert it to SMS TXT lingo slang.
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Believe it or not, we are asking
you to take out your cell
phone and turn it on!
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From Your Cell Phone
• Text message to 466453 (Google)
• Use the sample query prompts on the handout
• Weather 48234
• You’ll receive a response within seconds
Handout #5 Using Google SMS
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Follow the Instructions to Text
Handout #5 Using Google SMS
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ChaCha from Your Cell Phone
• ChaCha– Text - ChaCha (242242)– Call 1-800.2ChaCha
• How old is Neil Diamond?
• What's the fastest car in the world?
• What year were matches invented?
• Who won the World Series in 1987?
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Using PowerPoint
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Juicing Up PowerPoint
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• Uploaded photos are tagged• Search using advanced search for
Creative Commons• Try:
– Yellow cab– Orange pumpkins
• Tagging is the sharing mechanism.• Create an account to upload your own
photos
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Activity
1. Visit Flickr at www.flickr.net/creativecommons
2. Locate the icon Attributive License
3. Click on the See More link under the sample pictures.
4. Try ““yellow daffodil” or “coffee cup” or “autumn leaves” in the Search box.
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Adding Flickr Photos to your Slide
1. Open up PowerPoint.2. Click on INSERT NEW SLIDE.3. Select BLANK SLIDE layout.4. In Flickr, click on your photo to
enlarge it.5. Right click on it and select COPY.6. Place your cursor in your slide, right
click and select PASTE.
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Audreyjm529’s photostream - http://www.flickr.net/search/?
q=yellow+daffodils&l=4
Gunjan Karun’s photostream -
http://www.flickr.net/photos/gunjankarun/2641352297/
Dominic’s photostream - http://www.flickr.net/search/?
l=4&q=autumn+leaves&m=text
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Adding Photo Credits
1. In Flickr, locate the URL of the picture you copied up in the address bar.
2. Highlight the URL and click Control C to copy the URL.
3. In your slide, choose the Text Box option from the lower tool bar.
4. In your slide, click and drag to create text box.5. Click Control-V to paste the URL in the text
box.6. Resize font and reshape text box.
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Other Photo Sharing Sites
($39.95/year)
See Blackboard for short video on using Picasa
Free
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Embedding Videos
• Sources– Your own video
– YouTube – www.youtube.com
– Teachertube – www.teachertube.com
• File conversion service– Zamzar – www.zamzar.org
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Practice Inserting Video into your PowerPoint slide
• Visit the Digitaleader Blackboard site>Session III>More information about PowerPoint.
• Locate the video titled “Sample Video Upload.”• Download it to your desktop.• Open up a PowerPoint slide.• From INSERT in the tool bar, select MOVIES
and SOUNDS>MOVIE FROM FILE• Browse to locate the saved video file.• Choose to start AUTOMATICALLY or WHEN
CLICKED.
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Keep PowerPoint File and Video in the same folder
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Converting Video with Zamzar
• Zamzar is a free file conversion tool which will create the video file format which you need for your PowerPoint slide
• Follow the steps in the handout to create your video from a TeacherTube or YouTube link.
• Check out Zamzar to see what other file conversions they offer.
Handout #6 Converting Videos with Zamzar
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Sharing PowerPoints Online
• Visit www.slideshare.net and create an account.• Click the UPLOAD button• Browse to locate your PPT file and click OPEN• Choose privacy option, everyone, only me, or all
my contacts• Click PUBLISH and wait for upload to complete.• Click on the uploaded PPT file to share its URL
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Putting It All Together With
• Create web pages and group pages
• Read news from your favorite blogs
• Display photos, PowerPoint slides, and TeacherTube videos
• Store bookmarks for your frequently accessed sites
• Personalize and customize easily
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as a Simple Presentation Tool
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as a Resource Tool
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as a Collaborative Workspace
• Create a Protopage
• Share the Password with Others
• Password-Owners can Share Content Creation
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MI-LIFE Demo Sitewww.protopage.com/mi-life
Includes directions for
using a variety of Web 2.0
video and digital image
sharing software
applications, sample
widgets and more
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Course ObjectivesSession III – TODAY’S
AGENDA• Explore emerging technologies and Web
2.0
• Create a wiki
• Schedule a meeting with Doodle
• Comment in a blog
• Text message and search with your cell phone
• Juice up your PowerPoint with photos and video
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• Next course will be Culture on 00/00/2008.
• Information from today’s session will be posted on the Digitaleader Blackboard site
• Our contact information:John Smith – [email protected]
Susie Jones – [email protected]
In closing . . .