adayinthelife

=A Day in the Life of a busy teacher......= Have you ever wondered how teachers who spend a lot of time online researching, communicating and collaborating manage to 'fit it all in'?


 * Driving question:** How can we work more effectively use our time and gather the infromation we need to do our jobs in better ways.
 * Inspiration:** []

Organising the way you work to be part of the cloud ([|see cloud computing]) means finding better ways for collaborating, communicating, expression, gathering information and organising information online. Working //in the cloud// means what you do is more easily accessible, anytime, anywhere and most importantly, sharable.

Image used under creative commons courtesy of vanhookc at []

=Let's Discuss the Essentials= 1. Create a purposeful [|Digital Footprint] for yourself and your students 2. Consider privacy/safety for yourself and your students eg: usernames/screen names, avatars 3. Set up the email accounts you need to join in ([|Google vs Yahoo]) Easy ways to manage many accounts. 4. Tools of the trade eg.[|Tiny URL], [|bit.ly]and [|Creative Commons content] 5. Look for the commonalities/ similarities between sites and tools. 6. Don't be afraid to ask for help.....collaboration is a core philosophy in web 2.0 7. Identify priority areas from the columns below and begin using one or two tools to help you work more efficiently.

Twitter hashtag search Blog Search Delicious Search Creative Commons-based Search RSS feeds (into email and iGoogle) Instagrok Google Newspaper Archive Trove (National Library Aust) ScoopIt Twurdy || =Creating a PLN= Facebook [|Twitter] List servs [|Google+] || ==Personal Hompage/==
 * = Gathering Information ** = || = Communicating = || = Organising Information * **  * = || = Collaborating  * * = || = Expression = ||
 * =Creative searching=

Organisers
[|Symbaloo] [|iGoogle] [|Sitehoover] Google Drive (coming!) Evernote || =Writing= [|Google Docs] Google Sites [|TitanPad] [|Typewith.me] [|Tinychat] [|Voicethread] Wikis (wikispaces among others) Webride(website discussion) || ==Presenting Ideas== [|Prezi] [|Bubblus] [|Animoto] [|Voicethread] [|Glogster] [|Issuu] [|SpicyNodes] ||
 * ==Social Bookmarking/==

Online Bookmarking
[|Delicious] [|Diigo] [|Paper.li] || ==Sharing Information== Text Messaging [|Todays Meet] [|lino.it] [|http://corkboard.me] Wall Wisher
 * Do** use Word's built-in Table of Contents || ==RSS Feed Aggregators/==

Feed Readers
[|Pageflakes] [|Netvibes] [|iGoogle] [|Google reader] || ==Online File sharing/==

Storage
[|Ge.tt] [|Drop Box] Requires a software download. [|Microsoft Windows Live (Sky Drive)] SugarSync Sugarsync v dropbox v sky v... || ==Tag Cloud Generators== [|Tagxedo] [|Wordle] [|Glogster] || [|Survey Monkey] [|Flisti] Google Docs (Forms) Like this one || ==Video Conferencing/== Google Talk Google+ [|Skype] (including Screen Sharing) [|Flashmeeting] || ==Video screenshots to share== VLC Media Player and Handbrake Screen Recording using Jing or IWB software media type="file" key="Record_Inspire_1.wmv" width="500" height="500" media type="file" key="Record_SMART_1.wmv" width="500" height="500" ||  ||   ||
 * =Surveys/ Polling=

=Activities= 1. "Think of a teacher you know, someone who works well online ......what is it that they do differenently? Brainstorm at @http://corkboard.me/AXYp5u3gEV 2. What is your technology routine? That is, how do you manage communication and information sharing right now? brainstorm at Titanpad. Our collaborative document can be found at @http://titanpad.com/YEaFWH3wnL 3. Think of a unit of work, topic or presentation related to your work right now..... how might you usually prepare to create resources for this?

4. Site Hoover - build a collection of your favourite sites (no sign-up required)

5. Alternate searching - How does Googe Search work? what are the alternatives?

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Links
Did you know that you can search for old versions of a website using [|The Wayback Machine] even if the page no longer exists? Be careful what you post and advise your students to do the same!

**From Today**
I said I would add: Link to the Welcome page - names, schools, what they teach, @twitter name if they use one etc A link to my OneNote file > Gotta Love OneNote How to use the Snipping Tool well in Word. media type="file" key="snip.wmv" width="300" height="300" How to customise VLC media player Link to metaljar Screencast site > [] The couple of iPad apps I mentioned today were
 * Rover(download the app and then paste the address into the top of the app just like you would a web page
 * USB Disk (follow the instructions in the app itself)