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Welcome to the Web 2.0 Playground.
This is a series of online professional development sessions offered to you by the Spring Branch Educational Technology Department. There are 10 sessions in this professional development series. You can take a few of them, or all of them if you like. Just remember, Sessions 1 and 2 are […]
Archive for October, 2007
Session 1: Using the Bulletin Board
Published October 15th, 2007 in bbPress and Bulletin Board. 0 Comments{Session 2 Overview: REQUIRED}
This is the second REQUIRED Web 2.0 session in this online professional development series. Whether you just take Session 1 and Session 2 or this series, or take all of them, please remember that you MUST complete Session 1 and Session 2 FIRST.
After completing Session 1, it’s time to actually understand a […]
{Session 3 Overview: STRONGLY RECOMMENDED}
So what IS RSS? One of simplest definitions I’ve read can be found on FeedDemon’s website:
RSS feeds (also known as “web feeds”) enable web sites to tell you when they have new content. Instead of visiting your favorite web sites to find out if they’ve been updated, you simply subscribe to […]
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A blog is web log…an online journal or diary of sorts. Blogs can be pretty much about anything, depending on the personality and interests of the author or blogger. Many people from all walks of life are doing it. Consequently, you can find blogs on practically any subject that interests you. For a […]
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A blog is an online web log. A blogger is the author of a blog. However, for the purposes of this online professional development session, Blogger is Google’s free web 2.0 tool for creating blogs. It can be found at http://www.blogger.com.
You can create a blog for just about anything you’d like. Use it […]
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Like Blogger, Edublogs is a free online blogging tool. It is arguably the largest educational blogging site on the web and is free for all educators. Most importantly…it is advertisement free. Edublogs uses the WordPress blogging tool as its platform…so if you’re accustomed to Blogger, you’ll see some similarities but many differences […]
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The name podcast or podcasting came out of the popularity of the iPod. However, you don’t have to own an iPod or any MP3 player to participate. A podcast is essentially like a radio broadcast on demand. However, these days, there are also video podcasts (some refer to them as vidcasts and vodcasts). […]
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There are six steps to creating a podcast. In this session, you will learn how to plan, prepare, record, edit, publish and promote your podcast series so that it can be successful and FUN. The steps to creating a successful podcast series are:
Prepare: Plan the Series (done only once)
Prepare: Plan the Episode (done […]
Session 9: Social Bookmarking
Published October 15th, 2007 in del.icio.us and Social Bookmarking. 0 Comments{Session 9 Overview}
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1 PDLC non-contract hour
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2 PDLC non-contract hours