Examine Online Collaboration and Social Networking - Web 2.0 answer format advice
Watch - The machine is Us/ing US by Michael Wesch at TeacherTube an education focused online video site
Control the speed of the video by using the double bar pause button at the bottom left of the video's window.
Once you have read the text, click the arrow button to go on.
Survey your class
How many hours do you spend online each week?
Do you have a personal email account?
Have you visited social networking sites? (facebook, wikipedia, youtube, etc.)
How often do you go to them? daily, weekly, monthly, rarely, never.
Have you contributed to something online? If yes, what? Text (wiki or blog), video, webpage, software
Do you post online regularly? If Yes, how often? daily, weekly, monthly, rarely, never.
Add your own question about social networking.
Compile the results.
Consider: How do you or how does your class compare with the findings in the NSBA report, Creating & Connecting?
Examine the chart showing Popular Social Networking Activities on page 3.
In your opinion, which online collaboration venue is the most comfortable or engaging?
Why?
Consider this: In 1990 the very first world wide web page was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in Switzerland. In November 2007, Netcraft reported that there are over 149,784,002 web sites. " This is an increase of increase of 7.0M sites since last month, and represents growth of over 40 million sites since the start of the year. Much of the growth in sites this year has come from the increasing number of blogging sites, in particular at Live Spaces, Blogger and MySpace." Netcraft survey |
“Transparency breeds self correcting behaviour." Admiral Thad Allen USCG
Next
Using online collaboration & social networking to do work .
You do not have to be physically together to work together. - Watch Google Docs video
How could you use Google Docs to do a project?
Dig Deeper and act
Internet Hunts / Nature / Civics & History / PA Project / Computers / Puzzles & Projects / Site map / Home
12/2007 Cynthia J. O'Hora. Individuals and educators may freely use this activity. Updated 1/2024
Save a tree - use a digital answer format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the word processing document in a contrasting color (not yellow) or font (avoid Symbol, 
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or other ornate artistic fonts). Save frequently as you work. Enter your name and the date in a header. Submit the assignment via a class dropbox or an email attachment. Bad things happen. Save a copy of your document in your computer. Proof your responses. It is funny how speling errors and typeos sneak in to the bets work. 