Communicate+with+Your+Students+24-7

Tools that Enable You to Communicate with Your Students 24-7!
= = Basically your own personal website with an edit button. You can also share rights with others to work collaboratively.


 * ======Importance of Collaborative Assessment in a 21st Century Classroom ======
 * Wiki Basics Handout [[file:Wiki_Basics.pdf]]
 * Wikispaces for Teachers Handout[[file:K-12_handout_052610.pdf]]
 * Hundreds of Examples of Wikis in Education

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you to answer the question, "What are you doing?" by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to your friends, or "followers."


 * Twitter in 60 Seconds
 * Twitter in Plain English Video
 * [[file:esu17training/30_Interesting_Ways_to_use_Twitter_in_the_Clas.ppt|30_Interesting_Ways_to_use_Twitter_in_the_Clas.ppt]]

Facebook   is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings.
 * 100 Ways to Use Facebook in Your Classroom
 * How to Use Facebook In Your Classroom
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How to use Facebook

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A secure social Learning Network for Teachers & Students

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A one-stop-shop where teachers can:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Assign & retrieve student work
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conduct polls
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Provide quizzes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Share a calendar
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create a digital library (digital backpack)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Post messages
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create a parent connection

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. To create a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a social bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or private. Some sites periodically verify that bookmarks still work, notifying users when a URL no longer functions. Visitors to social bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that registered users have created and saved.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Social Bookmarking in Plain English Video
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Most commonly used social bookmarking websites used by ESU's
 * Diigo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diigo Accounts for Teachers and Students