As part of my presentation for the K12 Online Conference I am publishing this 50 page document. It is a combination of the 50+ RSS Ideas for Educators document and the Teaching Hacks wiki. It is geared towards an introduction to RSS, but carries on a bit further into topics such as tagging, social bookmarking, wikis and more. Link is to a pdf document.

MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn. Deb Roy studies how children learn language, and designs machines that learn to communicate in human-like ways. On sabbatical from MIT Media Lab, he's working with the AI company Bluefin Labs. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 20-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.

Academic artist Enrique Legaspi grew up singing, skateboarding, and creating. As a teacher, one day he realized, "I'm doing everything I can, I'm staying up late, but I'm producing the same results. What's going on?" Now that he's begun to modify and adapt his teaching to his students' interests, Enrique's students are creating, curating and sharing their work using video and social media -- and it's made all the difference.

In a world that is becoming more connected and more social, technological advancement is having a profound impact on people’s lives – from the way they share to how they learn. Nowhere is this shift clearer than in schools. Social networking can have a productive function in education. However, with the opportunity afforded by exciting new technologies comes a new responsibility for people to learn how to use them safely. School counselors are on the front lines, helping kids navigate this new and changing world. They play a vital role in helping students learn to make safe, smart and responsible choices online. Whether helping students understand the impact of sharing personal information or address incidents of bullying, school counselors are helping to create a new generation of “digital citizens.”

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 20-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.

This course offers an overview of the social, cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern culture. Combines critical discussions with experiments working with different media. Media covered include radio, television, film, the printed word, and digital technologies. Topics include the nature and function of media, core media institutions, and media in transition.

This is an open access graduate course from the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This course is available for-credit and non-credit participants. It features openly available, live, and recorded presentations from notable educators & theorists. In the last few years, the world of educational technology has changed significantly. Course participants will: better understand the historical role technology and media have played in educational & social change; become knowledgeable of social learning tools & FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) as tools for teaching, facilitating learning, & designing educational environments; become familiar with the wealth of open educational resources (OERs), learning-related content, & media available for teaching & learning; become knowledgeable of relevant social learning theories and philosophies that respond to learning in the digital age; better understand the many social, educational, political, cultural, and administrative issues often associated with technology & media in education and society; become critical consumers and producers of digital media and information; and, build sustainable, personal learning environments and networks.

Course participation will include synchronous sessions, asynchronous activities and one-to-one communication with your instructor. This blog will be the central hub in the communication of the course activities, but in general, communication will be distributed across a number of tools and services across the Internet.

Lesson Objectives: To help students understand why Time magazine chose The Protester as their 2011 Person of the Year. To help students understand how and why the worldwide protests took place during 2011, and their interconnectedness and distinctiveness. To help students understand the role of social media in the protests. To help students reflect on who "has done the most to influence the events of the year". To help students reflect on the meaning of democracy.

Welcome to School Library Learning 2.0. This tutorial is brought to you by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. The exercises give you the background you need to understand the tools you're learning about.

Anyone can be a publisher today – thanks to the web. As a result, there are so many more sources of news and information, which makes fact checking all the more critical in fast moving news stories. When disinformation gets into the news cycle, it can lead to people being put in harm’s way. Here, then, is a set of six tips to help you get it right.

Understand the benefits and challenges of effectively engaging with social media.

Learn how participate and organize online discussions in forums, mailing-lists, blogs and video discussion sites.

Understand how a blog can give you a voice and learn the basics of publishing a blog.

Understand how social bookmarking can be a very effective way to gather and share information about online resources.

Learn how to use wikis and understand their use as a collaborative writing (collabowriting) tool.

Learn best practices with regards to interacting and publishing in online media, e.g. how to manage privacy through nicknames, how to use online media to build up a professional reputation and network, online behavioral norms.

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This Technical Glossary video aims to give you an understanding of the social media platform Twitter http://twitter.com. The concept of tweets is discussed, and the video also demonstrates how to set up an account, how to find and follow other Twitter users, tweet and send direct messages to users, and how to use hash tags in teaching contexts.

Please also watch the related case study called Teaching with web 2.0 technologies: Twitter, wikis & blogs - Case study http://bit.ly/e2Hxxs.

Download the supporting PDF file for this episode http://bit.ly/bH53dD from the Learning to Teach Online project website.

This Learning to Teach Online http://bit.ly/d18ac5 case study features Tam Nguyen from The University of New South Wales, describing how a blog was used in one particular teaching context to promote peer-to-peer interaction, feedback and discussion. Tam's students also integrate YouTube and Flickr into their blogs, maximising the potential of both social media and a learning management system.

While the case study does examine one particular teaching application of a blog, the principles discussed can just as easily be applied to any teaching situation where the ability for individuals to chronologically record a learning process, collate different learning resources such as text, video and audio, and increased peer feedback or discussion between students is desired. This episode will examine the context, planning and teaching within the case study, and highlight any issues that were encountered, and benefits that make this type of online teaching worthwhile.

Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo:

-Save important websites and access them on any computer.
-Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.
-Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.
-Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time.
-Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes."
-View any annotations made by others on any website visited.
-Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network.
-Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks.