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 * Enhancing Communication with Hands-on 21st Century Tools**


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Wiki**-a collaborative website that allows easy creation and customization of information. The work wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning fast or quick.

Discuss **Web 1.0** > **Web 2.0** Web 1.0 allows users to search for and view information Web 2.0 allows users to participate in information by interacting and collaborating with others

[|Create a Google account]: (20 minutes) Username Password (must be at least 8 characters) What is the verification code?  Hi, I am a "captcha" and you use me to verify that you are a person and not a computer program.

SHOW ME MY ACCOUNT Gmail Calendar - add your birthday to your new calendar Google Docs (Word processor, Presenter and Spreadsheet) Need help with Google? http://docs.google.com/support/?hl=en
 * [[image:rss.jpg width="41" height="41"]]What is RSS?** RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to **easily stay informed** by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You **save time** by not needing to visit each site individually. You **ensure your privacy**, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter.



[|Leaders' Learning Site] - Online Course for Leadership




 * Skype** is a communication tool that provides free service to anyone on a computer that has skype downloaded. Skype allows users to video conference (using a web cam and microphone), instant message, public chat and exchange files. Skype can be used to talk to others by calling their telephone but has a small fee for this service.


 * Twitter** is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called "tweets" of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or [|your blog], sent to your [|followers,]and are searchable on Twitter search.

[|East McDowell Junior High] This is an article about "tweeting."


 * What is a PLN?**
 * Personal Learning Network** of people who have something to say that helps me do my job.

"//There is nothing new about personal learning networks. They are the people and information sources that help you accomplish your goals, either on the job or in your personal pursuits. They are the teachers who work in your school, your instructional supervisor, your library media specialist, the art teacher at the high school, which whom you are friends, the magazines you subscribe to, books you brought home from college, etc.

Today, however, new techniques for organizing digital networked information, have enabled us to fashion new kinds of networks that extend far beyond our immediate location and face-to-face connections, and to grow our networks based not on explicit decisions, but through the ideas of other nodes (people and resources), whose ideas intersect with ours//." [|David Warlick]

Who is in your **PLN**?

Do you have a lot of digital photographs that you want to share with family and friends?


 * flickr** is a website that allows users to upload and share photographs. You can choose to make your pictures private so that only people that you invite can view them or you can go public so the whole world can see them. It eliminates the attachment size limit in email and allows you to have multiple photographs, like a photo album, in groups and themes.