History Day Web Sites, Blogs and Beyond

Using Web 2.0 to Your Advantage

PART 2 in an exciting 2 part series

What is it all for?

• Social Networking (Facebook, Myspace, Linked In)

• Blogging (Blogger, WordPress)• Shared Office Tools (Google, Slideshare)• Pictures (Flickr, Kodak Gallery)• Bookmarking (de.li.ci.ous)• Survey Tools (Survey Monkey)• Videos (YouTube, Teacher Tube)• Much More! (Café press, Twitter)

Tools You Can Use

• What’s the message?• Who’s the audience?• How much time does it take?

Social Networking

• MySpace (www.myspace.com)– Middle School, High School, 20-35– Keeping up-to-date, calendar,

messages, pictures, video– A few hours a week

• Facebook (www.facebook.com)– High School and older– Like MySpace, more tools– A few hours a week

Blogging

• Blogger (www.blogger.com) or Word Press (www.wordpress.com)– Parents, teachers, students– Informational, informal, personal– Time dependent on the number of posts. At

least twice a month is a good rule.

Shared Office Tools

• Google Office Tools, Slideshare (www.slideshare.net)– Colleagues, partners, collaborators– Create shared documents, share

documents without using file space, direct research

– Almost no time if it is filling a need you already have

Pictures and Images

• Flickr (www.flickr.com), Kodak Gallery (www.kodakgallery.com– Parents, teachers, students, press, donors– Allows for easy sharing without large files,

also allows for tagging and linking to other web 2.0 tools

– Depending on the number of uploaded photos

Bookmarking

• delicious (www.delicious.com)– A research tool for students– Allows bookmarking from any computer

and saved to your account– Just a few minutes to set up an account

Survey Tools

• Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com)– Audiences with email and internet

access– Allows you to easily create and

distribute surveys– A few hours (survey creation,

distribution, and analysis)

Videos

• YouTube (www.youtube.com)– Students especially– Shared how-to’s, documentaries, performances– Easy to navigate, easy to upload, very time

intensive to create your own content

• Teacher Tube (www.teachertube.com)– Teachers– Not blocked by school’s firewalls!

Other Cool Stuff

• Twitter (www.twitter.com)– Students, teachers, community– Short bites of info about your status– A few minutes a day

Other cool stuff

• Café Press (www.cafepress.com)– All of your stakeholders– Sell products for free without keeping a

stock– Several hours to get set up, but no time

in fulfilling orders

Sharing Time

• What do you do?• Questions?