Communicating Though Technology 101:

Blogging, Facebooking, and Twittering for

Beginners

The important thing to forecast is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not the

television, but the soap opera.

Isaac Asimov once said…

What is the difference between a website and a blog?

• A website is a collection of web pages of the internet•A blog is a type of website where bloggers publish information is posts organized by date.

Edublog

• An education-related blog: blogs written for or by teachers or students of anyone else in the education field.•www.edublog.com•www.tkimmerly.edublog.com

Other Blogging Websites

• www.blogger.com•Create your own Blog website for beginners• www.classblogmeister.com• to register your school and receive a passcode: http://classblogmeister.com/?blog=rethink •Blogmeister Instructions

These applications and technologies are not going away…

Social Networking: A Definition From Wikipedia: A social network service focuses on building

online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people.While it could be said that email and websites have most of the essential elements of social network services, the idea of proprietary encapsulated services has gained popular uptake recently.The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook widely used worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America

DefinedTwitter lets you write and read messages of up to 140 characters, including all the punctuation and spaces. The messages are public and you decide what sort of messages you want to receive.

www.twitter.comwww.twitter.com/colomamiddle

Learn the Lingo• To follow somebody is to subscribe to their messages• A tweet is an individual message• A DM or direct message is a private message on Twitter• RT or retweet is to repost a valuable message from somebody else on Twitter and give them credit• Trending topics are the most-discussed terms on Twitter at any given moment

• @username is a public message to or about anindividual on Twitter• A hashtag—the # symbol followed by a term and included in tweets—is a way of categorizing all the posts on a topic• Shortened URLs. To fit links into the short messages, Twitter shrinks some URLs down automatically

Learn the Lingo

• From Facebook.com: Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

• From Wikipedia: Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.

• www.facebook.comSearch Coloma Middle School

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Not without flaws…

• The effects on social development and communication

• Becoming too personal, inappropriate online communication

Bibliography

•Anderson, M. (2009). Adolescent Social Networking and Communication Through Technology: Implications for Educators (unpublished)

•Classroom Websites: Creating a School Website, Classroom Blog or

Edublog

• Fletcher, G.H. (2006) Power up, don’t power down: Baring students from using cell phones, MySpace, and other communication technologies once they enter the classroom is the wrong approach. T H E Journal, 33(14), 24-25. Retrieved July 18, 2009, from the OneFile database.

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