Course Overview: Session 1
· Overview of course content and expectations
· Introduction to Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
Integrate Twitter into Your PLN Outline: Sessions 1 & 2
· Create individual teacher Twitter account
· Create a Twitter profile including a profile picture
· Select a pre-defined template
· Customize and edit the template
· Follow class members as well as other educators on Twitter
· Follow education organizations on Twitter
· Follow several news organizations on Twitter
· Review Twitter terminology (such as but not limited to, Tweet, Re-Tweet, hash tags)
· Review use of TweetDeck (create and organize columns)
· Review tools available to shorten web addresses (such as but not limited to www.bitly.com)
· Tweet using a shortened URL in the Tweet
· Tweet to our class hashtag
· Tweet using other hashtags (in participants’ areas of interest)
· Explore how Twitter can be used as a professional development tool
· Explore how Twitter can be integreated into the curriculum to enhance student learning
Integrate Edmodo into Your PLN Outline: Sessions 3 & 4
· Create an individual teacher Edmodo account
· Create an Edmodo profile including a profile picture
· Join educator communities in Edmodo
· Post a note to an educator community
· Post a comment to an educator community posting
· Create an Edmodo group
· Invite participants to an Edmodo group
· Post a quiz in an Edmodo group
· Post an assignment in an Edmodo group
· Post a poll in an Edmodo group
· Tag a post in an Edmodo group
· Explore how Edmodo can be used as a professional development tool
· Explore how Edmodo can be integreated into the curriculum to enhance student learning
· Review Stats (Statistics) tool
· Explore comment settings to monitor students discussions online (moderate, publish and delete)
· Explore how blogs can be used as a professional development tool
· Explore how blogs can be integreated into the curriculum to enhance student learning
Integrate Blogs into Your PLN Outline: Sessions 5 & 6
· Google Blogger overview
· Review existing educator blogs
· Create individual teacher blog
· Create blog profile including a profile picture
· Select a pre-defined template
· Customize and edit the template
· Customize and edit the settings for viewing and commenting
· Craft a robust post and publish
· Add a page and publish robust content
· Insert images and modify image properties
· Add navigation/hyperlinks to external web sites
· Add internal navigation/hyperlinks (within same blog)
· Add gadgets (follower, link list, blog list, poll, picture, post archive, and text)
· Comment to peers’ posts
· Insert/embed add-ins (such as but not limited to: videos, Live Traffic Feed, word clouds)
Integrate Diigo into Your PLN Outline: Sessions 7 & 8
· Create a Diigo account (for Educators)
· Create a Diigo profile including a profile picture
· Review and explore the Diigo for Educators Community
· Review, explore and populate the Diigo Library
· Review, explore and create Diigo Groups
· Review, explore, create and organize Diigo Tags
· Bookmark sites in Diigo using Diigolet
· Bookmark sites in Diigo without using Diigolet
· Use the annotation tools (Highlight and Sticky Note)
· Follow other like-interested educators on Diigo
· Follow education organizations on Diigo
· Post comments to other Diigo members’ bookmarked sites
· Explore how Diigo can be used as a professional development tool
· Explore how Diigo can be integreated into the curriculum to enhance student learning
Other: Session 8
If time permits, explore additional Web 2.0 tools such as but not limited to:
If time permits, explore additional Web 2.0 tools such as but not limited to:
· TeacherTube
· YouTube
· Google reader
· Word Clouds
· Animoto
· Other contemporary social media service tools as they become available
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