Connecting Your Classroom with Modern Education Tools Presented by Mark McLendon

Introduction: What We will Learn What does it mean to have a Connected Classroom?. What are modern Internet tools? How Does Using Modern Media tools benefit you and your students?. Better Teaching and time management through Technology.

Modern Tools for a Connected Classroom…. What’s that? Connected Learning is an educational approach designed for our ever-changing world. It makes learning relevant to all populations, to real life and real work, and to the realities of the digital age, where the demand for learning never stops. m/ m/

What is Web 2.0 I just figured out how to Program Tivo! Web 2.0 at Dictionary.com. Web 2.0. Web 2.0. is a second generation in the development of the World Wide Web, conceived as a combination of concepts, trends, and technologies that focus on user collaboration, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking

Web Tools 2.0 for your Classroom Diigo: One Tech On the Web to Find them all. Diigo is a powerful online collaborative research platform that integrates web technologies; social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management and participatory learning in the 21st century.

Web 2.0 Tools for your Classroom Scoop-It One tech to bind them all Scoop-It : A Curated Collecting Website What is a curated Website? Curate: Twitter: 140 Characters Of Communication and Education Power. What is a Micro-Blogger Finding and Using Technology for Your Class and For You.

What is Diigo?: Now we will : Define Diigo What is Diigo and how does it work? How do you get started with Diigo? Discuss, and highlight how to utilize Diigo For personal and professional Research, Educational practice and Planning, Exploration and as a learning tool for Students and Educators.

Lesson 1: Setting up and Using Diigo The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff". Please watch this Video and then set up a Diigo Account using the school’s Account.

Why Use: Why Diigo? Diigo is a powerful online research tool and collaborative research platform that integrates several key technologies, including social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management and participatory learning in the 21st century.

GETTING STARTED WITH Getting Started with Diigo 1.Go to the website, Diigo.com 2.Select “join Diigo” At the top left on the page 3.Complete and submit “Create your account” 4.A message will appear stating “Hi, _________, your Diigo account has been activated. Welcome to the Diigo community!” You now have access to your Diigo account. 5.As an educator, you have the wonderful opportunity to use the Diigo.com site for education. It is located at

GETTING STARTED WITH 6.Complete and submit the form. The education site allows use of Diigo with your students in the future. It will take hours to receive a response back from Diigo (It is important that you use your school for the Diigo education form) 7.Download the Diigo toolbar ( for your web browser. This can be downloaded on multiple computers (If you do not like toolbars, Diigo offers the Digolet which does not require a toolbar, 8.Begin testing out Diigo by bookmarking and enjoy your experience.

Bookmark and archive webpages - Annotate webpages with highlights & sticky notes - Save notes or to-dos using our slick Quick Note app - Capture and Annotate Screenshot Find Fast - Organize your digital items by types, tags, and lists - Search by tags, titles or full-text Easily Share - Share one item or a whole collection as a list - Form groups of people to collaboratively pool resources - Share your findings, complete with your annotations, by , RSS feed, twitter, permalink, widget, etc. With Diigo you can Collect Everything

For You as an Educator or Researcher Collect Everything-Find it all - Bookmark and archive webpages - Annotate webpages with highlights & sticky notes - Save notes or to-dos using Quick Note app - Capture and Annotate Screenshots Find Fast - Organize your digital items by types, tags, and lists - Search by tags, titles or full- text Easily Share - Share one item or a whole collection as a list - Form groups of people to collaboratively pool resources - Share your findings, complete with your annotations, by , RSS feed, twitter, permalink, widget, etc. Access Anywhere -your digital library can be accessed and searched from any computer, You can also access your bookmarks and favorites from free downloadable apps on iPhone, iPad ( and Android ( Using Diigo to Create, Research, Plan and Grow your practice. And one Web Tool to rule them all!

Using Diigo Every Day in the Classroom For Students and Classrooms Diigo is a great enabler for active reading, project-based learning, and better collaboration, particularly with respect to: how students and teachers acquire, research and organize information; how students can engage in active and critical reading online; how teachers and students can engage each other collaboratively in reading, researching, interpreting, and critiquing information; students can work effectively as a team, in project-based learning, that requires the team to acquire, analyze and synthesize information from a variety of resources;

GETTING STARTED WITH To learn more how Diigo is being used in classroom and to get some lesson ideas, please check out: Using Diigo in classroom >> using-diigo-in-the-classroom-2 using-diigo-in-the-classroom-2

These are just a few of the possible uses of Diigo in the classroom. To learn more about using Diigo with students, visit these pages: Diigo Educator Accounts Educator Accounts Lesson Plans Video Training Video* below is from Learn it in 5 - Diigo Groups ( Diigo V5.0: Collect, Highlight and Remember!

Diigo: Wrap-up Diigolet Tool. Using Bookmark Using Highlight Now is the time for More questions.

Scoop-It: Learn To Scoop-It Learn to set up and utilize a Scoop-it account for Education Define and understand the meaning of Curation as it applies to Curating websites and Your Scoop-it Magazines *Curate: to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or website content: “We curate our merchandise with a sharp eye for trending fashion,” the store manager explained. *

Curate? What is That? *Content curation is when an individual (or team) consistently finds, organizes, annotates and shares the most relevant and highest quality digital content on a specific topic for their target market. Curation is a great way to support your created content strategy, publish content consistently and keep track of your favorite information sources. *

Scoop-It: Getting Started! Getting Started with Scoop-it For Teachers Please watch this Video and set up a Scoop-It Account. Questions

What is Scoop-It?: Now we will : Define Scoop-it What is Scoop-it and how does it work? Discuss, and highlight how to utilize Scoop-It For personal and professional Research, Educational practice and Planning, Exploration and as a learning tool for Students and Educators. (Video)

What is Scoop-It Scoop-it is a Online Curation and Data Compilation tool that allows you to Share Data and Collaborate Information almost like Facebook. Scoop-it is a web based information management system. It was initially designed to process business information from the World Wide Web.

Scoop-It How Does it Work? How scoop-it works for me is as a targeted meta-search engine that allows me to locate, learn about, collect and then publish information from a variety of Data sources. As an information tool it allows the user to develop a collection of information sources that relate to topics of interest.

Scoop-It… For What? For my students and for myself as an educator Scoop-it gives immediate access to information sources that have already been “vetted” or examined by someone who may already have expertise in the area that I am researching. I have used Scoop-it to create a “Utilizing Technology in the Classroom collection. Based solely on going through the suggestions and then following those suggestions back to their source through either the curator or the resource they were citing.

Scoop-It: Wrap-up Review of the Video What does it mean to Curate? How Do You Find Groups? What is a Digital Magazine? Questions About Scoop-It? Scoop it Is not Free But You should use the Free Version!

Do you currently or have you ever Tweeted? If you have never Tweeted Why? Oh…You Tweet Everyday Why not to your students? Getting Tweety with it! Classrooms All A-Twitter

Twitter: 140 Characters for Learning! How Can You Use Twitter For Your Practice? How to use Twitter with your students, Parents and Other Teachers across the world!

Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet How could You Use Twitter? time for questions. Micro-Blogging Can you Say anything useful in 140 characters? twitter-classroom twitter-classroom

Why Connect Your Classroom Curating Websites and Using Web tools is applied Critical Thinking. Digital Citizenship is the New Black Teaching students to use critical thinking and safe practices with Social Media Is a Benefit to them regardless of other outcomes Other Resources.

Assessment and Evaluation Have you gotten your Response s yet? How would you define Curation? Are you more or less confident in your ability to use Tech in your Practice? What can you and will you use tomorrow? Do you want to build a Lesson Plan