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.

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.

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.

Link points directly to a .doc file.

Social media technologies are disrupting power equations between consumers and businesses on one hand and citizens and governments on the other hand, especially in the context of emerging countries. Therefore, it is essential that thinkers and practitioners in the areas of business, development and government understand the use and impact of social media technologies.

Through readings, guest lectures, and case studies, the course will provide students the conceptual understanding of the power and philosophy of social media. The course will specifically focus on how social media is changing media, business, development, and government in fundamental ways, especially in emerging countries in Asia and Africa.

The course will also help students gain practical facility in the use of social media tools. More importantly, students will learn meta skills like how to learn to use new social media tools, how to use filters to make sense of social media, how to curate news and knowledge and how to engage in an online public debate.

Through readings, guest lectures, case presentations, and first hand exposure to social media technologies, the course will introduce students to both the promise of social media technologies and the challenges in using them in emerging countries.

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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.