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Getting Interactive with Posterous
Today, we'll leverage some 21st Century tools to enable you to instantly and (almost) effortlessly communicate with your stakeholders.
We will set all of this up today before you leave this class.
By a show of hands, how many of you here have heard of 'clickers' for instant classroom polling and feedback?
By a show of hands, how many of you here are lucky enough to have a set for your classroom already?
By a show of hands, how many of you here would like to have YOUR STUDENTS
provide the 'clickers' for formative assessment in the classroom?
To add a PollEverywhere question to your Posterous site, just paste the link to a Poll Everywhere poll into the email to get a simple, good looking web polling widget
The next poll question I should ask is, "If you do have a Facebook account, how many times a day to you check in?"
On average, those 750 million people check the status updates of their friends 7 times a day.
Do you think these numbers compare to visits to your district, school, or your personal teacher Web site (if you have one)?
Teachers can create a Fan Page on Facebook pretty quickly. Your students can become a "Fan" of that page.
When they do, all of the updates made on that page will be 'pushed' to their own Facebook page.
So... What's the BIG deal?
Twitter is a 'Micro Blog', meaning that users can post their thoughts in 140 characters or less.
Who cares what I had for breakfast, right?
Twitter can be much more than that. First, some background...
Each update is referred to as a 'tweet'
These tweets are automatically posted or 'pushed' to the tweeter's followers
Anyone with an account can follow anyone else, and receive their tweets.
There are tags or attributes that enable a more rich, interactive experience...
...Re-tweets will pass on a post from a person you follow to those that follow you, so information can spread rapidly.
...@username, or 'At Replies' are like a direct line to a user. They send a direct message to a user along with your post or retweet.
...#keyword, or 'Hash Tags' allow you, and anyone else using the tag, to view all tweets that include it. Twitter and search engines can search for these tags as well.
Can't fit it all in? You can include links to web pages, videos, anything online.
Can it be used in a different way? Can it have more meaning?
You build your own experience by who you follow, and what you tweet.
Follow smart people, and you will learn from them. A LOT.
Say smart things, and smart people will follow you.
Ask your smart followers questions, and you will get good answers.
It's also a quick and easy way to 'push' updates about what you are doing in class to parents...
...and easily remind students what happened in class that day, and where they can get the resources used.
Instead of 'What are you doing?' encourage your students to tweet 'What are you learning?' or 'What questions are you having?'
Students could even answer each others questions - perish the thought!
Answer questions and instruct your students anytime, anywhere - virtual office hours!
Can twitter be an effective tool?
Yes
Now, let's get to work!
To start, log into your email at http://g.ironmail.org
Now, compose a message to post@posterous.com
The subject of your email becomes the title of your post.
The message body becomes the post content.
Hit 'Send' when you are
ready to enter the future.
Once your site is set up, we will work on the look or theme of the site, using the Bookmarklet, discuss email posting tips, and set up Autoposting to Twitter and Facebook Fan Pages: http://is.gd/Q1Zl5v
First off, thank you Dr. Tim Tyson for covering most of the items we'll discuss today...
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