Another great OntCL Twitter chat happened last night.
Topic: “Conquering your social media fears” – How did you? Are you doing it? Do you still have some fears?
Related article: Join In! Your PLP is waiting.
Highlights from the live conversation:
View the full Twitter Stream to check out the complete conversation and insights.
~Mark
Looking for resources and considerations for using Facebook in the classroom? This list of links will provide ideas and perspectives.
Enjoy the reading and learning. Please share what you learn.
~ Mark
Yesterday, I tuned into the Classroom 2.0 Live Elluminate session on Educational Social Networks. The map below shows the locations of the 90 plus participants from across the globe for this session!
I enjoyed the session and wanted to share a few brief notes and thoughts from the hour long session. The presentation started by polling everyone on two questions:
1. Have you used social networking?
2. Have you used social networking to connect with educators?
Most of the people participating in this particular session had at least dabbled in social networking environments, fewer specifically for connecting with educators. The session was delivered from the perspective of the evolution of the web from 1.0 to 2.0 tools and use to social networking.
Notes:
Putting things into the context of where we are at today:
The building blocks of the environment are
Comments of Note:
1. Teachers need to use tools for themselves, and experience their own learning before these new tools become used and well integrated into classroom curriculum delivery. This comment is totally in line with the discussions held within the Ontario PLP cohort with Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach.
2. We are now experiencing the confluence of social networking and collaboration.
Throughout the presentation, participants were commenting and sharing ideas in real time via the session chat window. The chat window was very active. The resources listed below are items that caught my attention while monitoring the chat window.
Resources/Recommended Reading:
1. Here Comes Everybody (book) by Clay Shirky
2. Listing of social network sites.
3. Grou.ps is a Ning like site.
4. Findings from a Pew study on Internet use, social networking and social isolation.
5. Educational Networkis a non commercial WIKI focused on connected educators.
6. Listing of social studies web 2.0 projects.
The session and chat window activity was recorded and will be posted on the Classroom 2.0 website. I enjoyed participating in the session and will certainly continue to participate as time permits.
~ Mark
As a member of the classroom 2.0 forum, I received the following notice from Kim Caise, Co-host, Classroom 2.0 LIVE regarding an elluminate session that may be of interest to you. If you are not a member of Classroom 2.0, you may wish to consider joining (free). I have found this to be a good learning forum, and consider it as part of my PLN.
This Saturday, November 7th, at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 8pm GMT, our LIVE show will be on the topic of “Educational Social Networking” with Steve Hargadon, the founder of Classroom 2.0.
Steve will be discussing the use of social networking software in education and the lessons that can be learned from existing educational social networks, especially within professional development environments. As well, he’ll be sharing a new whitepaper he’s written on this topic as part of his work for Elluminate and LearnCentral.org. More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com.
If you’ve never participated in a live webinar, don’t be afraid to come and observe. ‘Dip your toes in’ the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to “jump into the conversations with both feet”! We want to encourage “experienced Web 2.0 users” to join us by contributing and extending the conversation by sharing real-life examples and tips/suggestions.
Other opportunities:
As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat and desktop sharing. A Google calendar of upcoming shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html. If you haven’t used Elluminate before, we encourage you to view this tutorial to prepare for the Elluminate session: http://www.elluminate.com/support/faq_recordings/FirstTimeUser.jsp.
Session Archives:
On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings from our recent “New Features in Diigo v 4.0” with special guests Maggie Tsai and Russ Goerend. Click on the “Archive and Resources” page to view the past recordings.
I am planning to attend this online session. Will you join in?
~ Mark
~ Mark's Musings ~ blog.markwcarbone.ca 