Student Blogs. Teacher Blogs. Videos. Websites. 10 Social Media Skills for The 21st Century Teachers. January 11, 2014 Digital social networking is a game changer in the learning landscape. It is an invention that amounts in its importance and usefulness to the big inventions that marked all mankind history. In ancient times, cultures, in the absence of any established sign language to encode its content, were orally based. Storytelling was the major vehicle to pass on the human legacy from one generation to the other. Stories constituted the basis of collective learning and now with this rapid uptake of social media networks and their widespread , the notion of collective learning has been revived. There are several communities and affinity spaces where people get to meet and learn from each other irrespective of their geographical locations, race, ethnicity, and gender.
The potential of social networking sites in education is huge and we need to capitalize on it to enhance our professional development and consequently improve the quality of our instruction. Helping Educators Get Started With Twitter. A Social Network Just For Kids! | ScuttlePad.
ODE Pearltrees. Kevin Honeycutt. The Coming Jobs War: Jim Clifton: 9781595620552: Amazon.com. Self Publishing, Book Printing and Publishing Online - Lulu. Ohiotechnology. ISTE 2012: 101 FREE Tech Tools. Techie Teacher Tips. Welcome to Techie Teacher Tips; your resource for effectively integrating technology in the classroom. Feel free to follow my technology board on too! Thanks for visiting!!! I have created this site to be a resource for myself and other elementary teachers. Feel free to share the site with others and visit often (I am continually adding new resources as I find them). I have provided links to original sources for websites, blogs and videos, and more when using these resources, please credit the original source (not my site) to ensure that proper credit is given.
All links were correct at the time they were added to the site. This site was developed by Heather Mullins, MATL with Specialization in K-12 Technology Integration. All information was current at the time it was written, please follow the links provided to ensure that all information is accurate prior to use. Why Wikis Still Matter. Wiki is a Hawai'ian word meaning "fast" or "quick. " As a technology platform, Ward Cunningham installed the very first wiki on the Web in 1995. That was two years before the word "weblog" was coined (and four years before that term was shortened to "blog"). Wikis predate Facebook and Twitter by roughly a decade.
At sixteen years old, the wiki predates almost every other social media tool (other than email, of course, which historians of technology say turns 40 this year). The reasons to use wikis remain the same as ever: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Despite all the benefits of wikis -- from ease-of-use to collaborative workspaces, they're still viewed by some as confusing and unwieldy. With a wealth of other Web 2.0 tools, collaborative software, and content management systems to choose from, many argue that wikis are "passe. " But in some ways, it just seems that wikis suffer from an image problem. OETC 2014.