Today's Plan

1. create a del.icio.us account and bookmark something
2. create AIM account
3. create bloglines account
4. create a facebook account
5. create a myspace account
6. create a blog with edublogs.org, wordpress.com, or blogger.com
7. create a wiki with wikispaces.com or wetpaint.com or pbwiki.com
8. discuss Task 2
9. discuss Task 3
10. view storyboard examples

Today's Notes

Microsoft Surface http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

• Dr. Martindale showed us his personal information manager, using the wiki. He used a format from pmwiki to design his personal wiki page.
• Google spreadsheet - Go to google and click on more. Go to documents. You may have to sign up for a new account. It's free.
• http://del.icio.us/martindale - delicious allows us to bookmark sites of interest. Other people can read this and know what you find interesting. This is social bookmarking. You can mark things as private. We signed up for our own del.icio.us accounts. It includes RSS feeds.
• Class del.icio.us favorites
• http://del.icio.us/tag/idt7062
• We set up an account at http://bloglines.com.
• We set up an instant messenger account at http://aim.com.
• We set up an account at http://edublogs.org

1. Blogging is personal publishing. It is an on-line journal of sorts. Blogs can be public or private.

• We set up an account at http://facebook.com.
• We set up an account at http://myspace.com.
• Dr. Martindale put a link to UsingRSS on our class page. Here we find in question/answer format several links to articles and videos. We need to explore this and be prepared to answer questions about this information for our quiz on Tuesday. Required: Watch the two videos and read the three articles at the bottom of the page under Extra Resources.

To Do by next class meeting

RSSBlogsAndWikis