1. Using Social Tools to Promote Literacy Melissa Jacobs-Israel, Coordinator Elizabeth Naylor-Gutierrez, Coordinator NYCDOE – Office of Library Services

2. Blogs A blog (short for web log) is a user- generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

3. Why Let Our Students Blog?

4. Blogging in Education Visit My Class Imbee Edublog Bloglines Good Reads Learning 2.0

5. Visit My Class

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10. 23 Learning 2.0 Things…

11. MySpace Debate More than a third of teachers surveyed said MySpace and other social networking websites have disrupted their school’s learning environment, according to a National School Boards Association survey. Source: National School Boards Association NEA Today; March 2007, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p16-16. 1/4p

16. Podcasts An audio (or video) program in a compressed digital format, delivered via an RSS feed over the Internet to a subscriber and designed for playback on computers or portable digital audio/video players, such as the iPod. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/podcast

17. Podcasts as Student Projects Assignment: The President of the United States will be visiting the midwestern and western states to find a new residence. To help him decide where he will live, he will be downloading and listening to podcasts. Create a podcast that will convince the President to select your state. http://spsmidweststates.blogspots.com

18. Podcasts as Learning Tools Education Podcast Network http://www.epnweb.org/ China Pod http://chinesepod.com/ Podcasts for Educators, Schools and Colleges http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/index.php Podcasts for Teachers (PFT) http://www.podcastforteachers.org/MoreAboutTechPod.ht ml

19. Videos Teachertube.com - an online community for sharing instructional videos http://www.teachertube.com Zamzar – free online video conversion http://www.zamzar.com

20. Wiki A wiki (sometimes wikiwiki) is a website that allows anyone (with permission) to edit any page and to add new pages. Wikis are unusually collaborative because all participants can, in the typical case, edit all, or nearly all, pages on a wiki. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Wiki

21. Wikis Teachers First Wiki Walk-Through http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/ StudySkills http://studyskills6.wikispaces.com/ Landmark HS Civil Rights Wiki: http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/Civil_Rights_C lass

22. Embrace Social Tools Social Tools are Not the Enemy Millions of students have a MySpace presence, use blogs, post podcasts, use wikis and interact with the world through social networking tools. We can use these tools in education and embrace the technology our students are most comfortable with…not to mention we will be way cool!

23. Next Steps… Let’s figure out how to use social networking tools in the Library…