The document provides an overview of social media tools and websites that can be used for collaboration, sharing, and communication in educational settings. It includes tables that list popular tools for collaboration (including Google Docs, Edmodo, Dropbox, Skype), sharing content like videos (YouTube, SchoolTube, EmbedPlus), and communication (Twitter). It also discusses legal and privacy considerations for using social media in schools and provides example uses and resources for integrating tools like Edmodo into classroom instruction.

1. Jeanet Card and Mary Morris
Teacher Technology Facilitators
Sunnyside Unified School District
January 28, 2012

4. Hint:

5. What is:

6.  New ways that individuals engage in content
and each other
 User centric-replacing the websites
 The focus is social interactions
 It’s taking traditional usage of the web and
incorporating user generated content
 Great value is placed on user
 Communicating with other people instantly
 Examples:
◦ Posting home videos, posting opinions about
products, creating podcast, blog a new hobby,…

7. Social Media- Sharing
Communicating Online
video, graphics
with family messaging
and photos
and friends service
Examples: Examples: Examples:
Facebook Twitter YouTube
MySpace Texting apps Flickr
LinkedIn Creative Commons
Blogging
Edmodo

10. Twitter https://twitter.com

11. Embed Plus www.embedplus.com

12.  Federal Legislation
◦ Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: FERPA
(1974)
◦ Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of
1998
◦ Children's Internet Protection act (CIPA) of 2000
◦ Copyright guidelines

13.  google docs Documents &
Presentations
 twitter
 dropbox
 skype Images
 edublog
 bubbl us Discussion

14. Edmodo www.edmodo.com

16. Bubbl us Bubbl.us.docx

17.  Facebook
 Edmodo
 polleverywhere
 prezi
 quizleton
 scrible

18. YouTube
Video &
Photos
edublog Personal
Documents
Organization
PB works (wiki)
Web
Annotation Screen
and Sharing join me
Bookmarking

19. LiveBinders www.livebinders.com

20.  www.stroome.com
 www.prezi.com
 http://creativescommons.org
 http://Voicethread.com

23. requires an active
Site URL free? requires registration? email? other
Collaboration
web-based office suite and storage; create and collaboratively edit documents in
•google docs https://docs.google.com/ Yes Yes Yes real time.
•twitter http://twitter.com/ Yes Yes online messaging service for short (~2 sentence) messages.
software that connects and synchs all your devices, and provides online storage
•dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/ Yes Yes and sharing.
•skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/ Yes Yes online "phone" service- text, audio and visual
platform similar to facebook; can give badges (attendance, powerreader…);
•edmodo http://www.edmodo.com Yes Yes Yes quizbuilder
•edublog http://edublogs.org/ Yes Yes Yes create and manage student and teacher blogs
•bubbl us Bubbl.us Yes Yes Bulletin board for brainstorming and organizing.
Sharing
•posterous https://posterous.com/ Yes Yes Yes A mobile blogging platform, for photos, documents, video.
Video saring service- upload, view and share video. Check out the Safety Mode
•YouTube www.youtube.com Yes filter!
•School Tube www.schooltube.com Yes Yes Yes Vetted videos from schools. Video sharing for teachers and students.
•Embed Plus www.embedplus.com Yes Edit and annotate published videos.
•PW works (wiki) https://my.pbworks.com/ Yes Yes Yes Collaborative editing and organization tool.
•glogster http://www.glogster.com/ Yes Yes Yes Create and share posters online. Education accounts available.
•slide share http://www.slideshare.net/ Yes Yes Yes Publish and share your slideshows.
•join me https://join.me/ Yes Screen sharing; no registration or account needed. Need to download app.
•todays meet http://todaysmeet.com/ Yes Live streaming comments; no registration or account needed.
•diigo http://www.diigo.com/education Yes Yes Students don't need one. Online bookmarking and annotation; can create student accounts; contains ads
•livebinder http://www.livebinders.com Yes Yes Yes Online portfolio
•prezi http://prezi.com/ Yes Yes Yes Online presentations; classroom accounts

24.  http://blip.tv/k12online/edmodo-connect-collaborate-create-5794822 edmodo
overview
 YouTube- Edmodo Instructions for Teachers
 http://help.edmodo.com/userguide Edmodo Help Center and links to webinars
 https://sites.google.com/site/bunkerstem/home sample classroom lms
 http://youtu.be/ZokqjjIy77Y Engage Me- you tube