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These items are designed to showcase some additional features of each of the three tools we've explored. Feel free to pool your talents and ask for assistance, though I will stay completely out of this process for obvious reasons!

Post your results someplace and then please be sure to share the link with us!

Be sure to be on email sometime around 9:00 Tuesday morning, but definitely by 9:30!

NING
How many pools in Fred's Seussland SketchUp? HINT: Visit Fred's Ning page.

How many members in the isenet.ning? HINT: Find the appropriate button in the menu bar.

Who created the isenet logo? HINT: Search within isenet and check with the Librarian in your RCDS PLN if you need appropriate search terms.

Find the names of two books around which there are discussions. If possible, at least one of the books you list has to be different than one of the books listed by someone else in Digital Wave. Also, if you have read any of the books around which there are discussions – jump in and add a comment. HINT: Find the appropriate button in the menu bar. SECOND HINT: Within the Books discussion is another discussion: What are you reading?

TWITTER
Find the RCDS faculty who have Twitter accounts and list their Twitter names. HINT: Pool your talents to do your searches and also ask your growing PLN.

Find the names of two books around which there are tweets. Add a tweet of your own about a book you have read. HINT: Search for the #books hashtag.

POSTEROUS
The CAIS (Connecticut Association of Independent Schools) Tech Retreat took place in early May of this year. Who do you know who attended the retreat, and what did they do while on the retreat? HINT: Search all of posterous for this, and don't give up till you find it! (Which means you might have to search twice.)

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Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:59:00 -0700 Resources for Learning about Twitter http://pln.posterous.com/resources-for-learning-about-twitter http://pln.posterous.com/resources-for-learning-about-twitter
Twitter is our next port of call in building PLNs!
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Please visit Twitter and create an account for yourself.

Here are some guides to assist you on your journey :-)

Twitter in Plain English by CommonCraft is a 2 min 25 sec video that provides an overview of what Twitter is and how it works. This is a useful video to watch if you are unfamiliar with Twitter. You can view the video in a number of places, including CommonCraft's site and on youtube. A member of isenet has also posted it as a discussion on isenet.

Once you have some sense of what Twitter is, I recommend you read Demetri's clear guide on How to Start Using Twitter, which he posted on ISEnet. Then watch his ISEnet video on how to create a Twitter account.

Once you have created your Twitter account, visit this discussion in ISEnet and add a comment.

Want further assistance? Scope out your growing PLN on the isenet Ning, contact me, or contact any of our Digital Wave students, who will be available June 14-15.

Cheers,
@brainbits

p.s. isenet - isenet.ning - isenet Ning - ISEnet - These all refer to the same "place" – http://isenet.ning.com

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Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:05:22 -0700 Welcome to Digital Wave! http://pln.posterous.com/welcome-to-digital-wave http://pln.posterous.com/welcome-to-digital-wave
Designed by Fred in 1995 for the first summer Digital Wave, this is the Digital Wave logo, a cool surfer dude with a mortarboard cap. If you are curious about the history of Digital Wave, you can read about it here, though you may need a password to see the pages, in which case request one from Laurie via a DM on Twitter!

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Exploration, guided or on your own, is a hallmark of Digital Wave, indeed, it is a hallmark of learning :-) WELCOME to Digital Wave 2010 and the creation and exploration of your own PLN!

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