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media type="custom" key="23584948" Web 2.0 Tools for Social Studies, Day 3: Social Networking and Collaborative Documents

Objectives:
 * Participants will identify the potential issues inherent in allowing students to access social media and employ strategies to deal with them.
 * Participants will be able to demonstrate applications of social networking for the classroom and for professional practice.
 * Participants will be able to access and use collaborative documents through Google Drive.

Most of us are familiar with social networking on the internet. Facebook alone has more than a billion users worldwide and there are many other sites, such as LinkedIn that reach large groups of people. Social media provides excellent opportunities for connecting with one’s peers and community. Networking can also be used in the classroom, but many teachers, administrators, and families are concerned about who students will be in contact with, and what they will be sharing. We will discuss the possible pitfalls in social media and look for remedied as a group. Some of the concepts that we will consider are: If you haven’t already, now is a good time to sign up at [|www.linkedin.com] if you are interested. LinkedIn is aimed at professional, to connect professionally. If you signed up for classroom 2.0, you can search for me (Robert Hobbs) and invite me to join your network.
 * Possible exposure to inappropriate content
 * Potential for bullying, harassment, or exploitation
 * An appropriate level of personal interaction between adults and students.

In a way, working with collaborative documents are a kind of social media. Users work together in a space created for that purpose. The district uses Google Drive and issues all staff and students a gmail account which allows them to access it. You just created a workspace that you and I share. We can both add, remove and edit all the documents in that space. When you create spaces you can decide who can access them and whether they can edit or only read. Google Docs supports text files, presentations, spreadsheets and more. You can see how this kind of workspace is useful for professionals and for groups of students.
 * 1) Log on to your regular school gmail account.
 * 2) Click on “Drive.”
 * 3) Here you can upload documents from your computer, create new Google Docs, and see all the documents that are shared with you.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on “Create” and create a new folder. Name it Web2WorkshopYourName. (Put your name in where it says “YourName”)
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go to the folder and choose “share.” Go to “Who has access” and select “Anyone who has the link” and “can edit.”
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enter my email robert.hobbs@pgcps.org in the box titled “Invite People.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are some social media/collaborative workspace tools
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|https://delicious.com] a social-bookmarking tool, allows users to tag websites that they find, and assign keywords to it. There is a network option that allows users to recommend sites to other users and keyword searching of sites that have been tagged by users. Students can be added to a class account and use the sites collected there for research or reference. Educators can also recommend valuable sites to one another.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|www.skrbl.com] is a simple online whiteboard. Everyone with the URL can type or draw on the page. A whole group of people can be working on the board at once. More options are available if you sign in, such as uploading pictures. The page can be saved and shared.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|todaysmeet.com] is going to take some nerve. A presenter (or someone) creates a “room” and shares the URL with their audience. The goal is to have all the “backchannel” happening in the TodaysMeet room. “Backchannel” according to TodaysMeet is everything going on in the room that isn’t coming from the presenter. Users can post messages of 140 or fewer characters which allows comments, questions and responses from the entire audience in real time. The chat room is private to those invited and can be left open for users to come back to.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Log in to your professional development blog and reflect on the possible uses of social media and collaborative documents in your classroom and your professional practice.