This blog is no longer utilized - however I keep it up so that I can share with others what I have done within this social media course.

This was my first time teaching this course.

To see the current social media class that I am teaching please visit.

Tiny Chat and Google Talk

Tinychat and Google Talk

Today we had 6 computers going to explore video chat - utilizing Tinychat.com

Password protect your chat sessions so that not just anyone can join your group.





Google Talk - you can only video chat with one person at a time.   You can chat with video or just your voice. 

Chat within Gmail, iGoogle, and orkut





Podcasting

Today we will explore websites that allow you to record voice messages using your computer and cell phone.



Students will utilize Vocaroo to create a message utilizing this free podcasting website! Students will embed the code in a post or as a gadget!


With this website - students can record a message. It starts recording rather quickly after you hit allow. However, just click the record again button and record the message again.  Students can send the message in an email, embed the html code on to their website or add the link to their website.



VOXOPOP

http://www.voxopop.com

Voxopop aims to bring people together in an environment of constructive communication.They realize that the world needs more communication between people of differing social, political and religious contexts - and Voxopop aims to provide that kind of bridge to bring about social change. So lets talking!

Voxopop talkgroups let you discuss your interests and passions with people from all over the world, using your real voice. It's a whole new way to talk online. Find talkgroups to join, or start your own and spread the word. Great for families & friends, interest groups, website owners, bloggers, podcasters and teachers. Start talking, it's FREE!

 

 Create a talkgroup!






Gabcast offers two free options for recording and sharing your vocal podcasts. You can record by calling in to a phone number.   The other way to record is by using a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) service.

You must create an account on Gabcast.  To start utilizing the recording service, you must create a channel.  You may have your recording private or public.  Once you have your channel you may dial one of the access numbers.  Dial the access number, and you will be prompted to enter your channel number followed by the pound key.  Then your password.  You then record your message.  You can publish right from your cell phone.  If you have subscribers, they will be notified of the new recording.  The message will be saved on to your gabcast account.



Your message will be saved under your episodes.



To add to your blog!
Once you are logged into your account click on "edit channel" and select "Custom" from the "Add new blog" drop-down box. Provide the username and password that you use to log on to your WordPress blog to post. Enter your server in the blog server field and provide the app path (e.g. /wordpress/xmlrpc.php). Important: Leave the "blog ID" field blank! Optionally embed the Flash player (recommended). Click "Submit".

Social Media Survey

Blogger in Draft

Click Here

Google Docs

To get started with Google Docs - Click here!

Google Docs - How to Share!

How to create and share docs

To create a doc:
  1. From your Docs list, select "New" from the upper-left corner.
  2. Select which kind of doc you'd like to create: document, spreadsheet or presentation.
  3. A brand new version of the doc type selected will open for you, ready to be edited and shared.
To share a doc:
  1. From within the document you'd like to share, click the "Share" tab, in the upper-right corner*.
  2. Enter the email addresses of whomever you'd like to add and select the button next to "As collaborators:" or "As viewers", depending on what kind of access you'd like them to have.
  3. Click "Invite collaborators."
  4. If you'd like, in the window that appears send an email to your collaborators explaining a little about the doc. Whether or not you send this email, your doc is now shared.
*A note about Advanced permissions:
In the "Share" tab you'll notice a couple of options below the invite screen that bear further explanation.
    • "Collaborators may invite others" is exactly what it says -- an option that allows or prevents those you invite from inviting others to the doc.
    • "Invitations may be used by anyone" is a feature that allows invitations to be forwarded, and allow access to, anyone who receives them. In effect, this option works similarly to "Collaborators may invite others."

      Note that when inviting a mailing list to collaborate on a doc, you'll need to have this option checked.

Google Docs

What is Google Docs? (information obtained from Google Docs - on Google - Using Google Docs in the Classroom)

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program.
Unlike desktop software, Google Docs lets people create web-based documents, presentations and spreadsheets that anyone in the group can update from his/her own computer, even at the same time.
Instead of emailing around files and having to deal with the confusion and extra work involved in managing different file versions and manually aggregating input from others, anyone in the group can edit the document online from anywhere -- all you need is a Web browser.
And, since your docs are all stored safely in Google's servers, you don't have to worry about losing data from a hard drive crash or nasty virus.



Extra Information:
Google Docs allows anyone to view/edit a document without a gmail account!
Google Forms feed directly into a Google Spreadsheet.
Collaborate on a document in "real time" in Google Docs Wordprocessor.  Up to 100 people can share the same document.

Today we will all collaborate on the same document!

Virtual Keyboards

KissTunes


Virtual Keyboard 
 

Firefox Addons

Today students will explore Firefox Addon's

Customize your Firefox  to enhance your online shopping, music, bookmarking and much more.

There are several Firefox add on categories - see photo on right.

Yoowalk

Click here to explore Yoowalk!
Yoowalk vitural world - chat room - enter various stores, etc.

YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web a 3D world where you can :

  • Browse the web in 3D with your avatar
  • Build a 3D version of your website
  • Have your personal room in 3D
  • Meet people and hang around with them
YOOWALK is organized by villages, grouping websites and brands by areas of interest. When you walk down the streets in one of these villages, you thus see schematic buildings that represent the major websites on a particular subject. You walk around the web!

Favicon How To Change

Favicon

Add the reference for your favicon to your Blogger template

The final step to creating a custom favicon for Blogger is referencing the favicon in your Blogger template code.

To do this, go to Layout>Edit HTML in your Blogger template. You do not need to check the “Expand widget templates” box.

Search for the closing </head> tag in your template using your browser’s search function.
Immediately before this line, paste the following section of code, substituting YOUR-FAVICON-URL for the URL where your favicon is hosted:
<link href='YOUR-FAVICON-URL' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='YOUR-FAVICON-URL' rel='icon'/>

Then save your template. Now when you view your blog in your browser, you should see your favicon appear beside the web address and in the bookmarks folder (if you have bookmarked your site).
Note: it is very important that you paste the favicon tags just before the closing </head> tag, not earlier in the template code. This is because Blogger generates favicon tags when your blog pages are generated which would otherwise override your custom favicon references.

Favicon Creator Websites


Alternatively you can download a “ready made” favicon from these sites:

Favicon

Add a custom favicon to your Blogger blog: "What is a favicon?

The word “favicon” is short for “favorite icon”, and is a 16x16px square icon which is associated with a website (or blog).  Browsers which support favicons will usually display a website’s favicon in the address bar (to the left of the URL), and next to the page’s name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers which support tabbed navigation (such as Firefox and IE8) will also display the favicon next to the page title on each tab."


Bloggers favicon is to the left of the URL

Domain

Domain: 
A domain name uniquely identifies an Internet Protocol (IP) resource such as a web site on the Internet.  Domains are based on the Domain Name System (DNS).  Through ICANN, domain names can be registered and resold. Their use in commerce subjects them to Trademark Law.  In 2010, the total number of active domain registrations reached 196 million.

If you do not want to use the blogspot.com as part of your domain name, you can purchase a domain name directly from blogger for just $10.00. There are also other websites of which you can visit to do so as well!  To see a blog that has changed from blogspot.com to personal domain:  Click Here

There are many companies from whom you can buy domain names, usually for very reasonable yearly prices. A Google search for domain registrar will turn up numerous options. Keep in mind that you can also buy a domain name directly through Blogger; doing so will configure your DNS and Blogger settings automatically. You can also shop around through this list:
To purchase a domain from Blogger follow these steps:
  1. Settings
  2. Publishing tab
  3. Just select the Custom Domain option
  4. enter the domain name you'd like and click Check Availability.
  5. This will take you to the Google Apps domain purchase website, which will let you know if the domain is available and proceed with the registration if it is.
  6. Finally, you'll go to Google Checkout where you'll make your payment. Your domain is registered with one of our registration partners, either eNom or GoDaddy.
You'll get a domain registration confirmation email from Google Apps. Clicking the link in this email allows you to sign this domain up for an Apps account. Google Checkout will also send you an email with the order receipt.

The first registered domain name:  SYMBOLICS.COM
Visit the following website (which is the longest registered domain name) to see the first 100 registered domain names!


What is GoDaddy.com all about - what services do they offer?

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Choosing A Domain Name

How To Choose A Domain Name

Extensions
.com: It’s the most widely recognized domain name.
.net: It is the best alternative to a .com domain.
.org: Good for non-profit organizations.


Type in Google.org - will get Google.com (purchase alike extensions - and can redirect to correct site)

Blog Backgrounds

Have fun changing your blog background to correspond with the holidays!!

Here is one of many websites:  The Cutest Blog on The Block

HOT bliggity
Shabby Blogs
Simply Blog It Backgrounds

Google Talk


Make a telephone call right from  your computer with Google Talk!
I LOVE GOOGLE TALK - I can sit right at my desk and make a phone call! I no longer have to worry about not being able to make a long distance phone call while at work.  Yes of course I could use my cell phone (as my husband keeps reminding me), but what is the fun in that! Students had fun calling their parents - however, this application IS NOT downloaded on the students' computers - otherwise there could be major issues with students calling everyone - as you could imagine.

Google talk is an online application allowing users to communicate through voice calls as well as instant message receipts. Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) is the convention allowing transmission of voice through the internet. Google Talk connects people all around the world and this is a free application. 

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Text Anim

Create your own!  TextAnim.com

Exploring Google Tools

There are many tools that Google offers for FREE!!!  To make sure that the students are aware of each of these products and their capabilities, each student chose a Google tool to explore -  of which they will share with the class on an assigned day.  Students were given several class periods to really get to know their tool.  Over the next few weeks, students will be presenting their tools.

Please visit students blog or our Favorite Web Tools - to learn about each Google Tool.

Spot a Bug in Google?

PC Mag

Google offers money to people who report bugs in their Chromium project (which bears the popular Chrome browser as fruit). and others such as:  YouTube, Blogger, Orkut apart from Google.com. Android, Picasa or Google Desktop don't fall under it yet, but Google said they might expand it to these too in the future. So how much do you get? It depends upon the intensity of the bug found - it could be anywhere between $500 to $3100.

CBOX

Add a chat box to your blog.  http://www.cbox.ws

Google Docs

Create and share online documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It's free. You can:

1) Access your documents online from any computer with an internet connection.

2) Add collaborators to your document and Docs will send them a link to access the doc online (no need to send email attachments back and forth)

3) Decide who can view and edit each document (only you, some people, or everyone)

For a quick product tour, check out: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour...

Or to get started, visit: http://docs.google.com


Parts of a URL

Every web page on the Internet has URL.  It stands for Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.  It is an address or path for the search engine, for identity.---WEB ADDRESS  See beginners guide:  Click Here!

The first part of a URL states what protocol is used to access the
site. In the example,  http:// indicates
the site is using the http (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

The second part of a URL is the actual Internet address of the
computer where the pages for the site are stored. This is commonly a
word or combination of words followed by .com, .net, .org, or a country domain such as .co .uk or .de, and is commonly referred to as a domain
name. This second part can also consist of an IP address and might
look something like: 122.123.124.125 or a port
number

http://www.germany-tourism.de/

Example - more information

How To Choose a Domain Name

How To Choose A Domain Name

Extensions
.com: It’s the most widely recognized domain name.
.net: It is the best alternative to a .com domain.
.org: Good for non-profit organizations.


Type in Google.org - will get Google.com (purchase alike extensions - and can redirect to correct site)

Domain Name

Domain: 
A domain name uniquely identifies an Internet Protocol (IP) resource such as a web site on the Internet.  Domains are based on the Domain Name System (DNS).  Through ICANN, domain names can be registered and resold. Their use in commerce subjects them to Trademark Law.  In 2010, the total number of active domain registrations reached 196 million.


If you do not want to use the blogspot.com as part of your domain name, you can purchase a domain name directly from blogger for just $10.00. There are also other websites of which you can visit to do so as well!  To see a blog that has changed from blogspot.com to personal domain:  Click Here

There are many companies from whom you can buy domain names, usually for very reasonable yearly prices. A Google search for domain registrar will turn up numerous options. Keep in mind that you can also buy a domain name directly through Blogger; doing so will configure your DNS and Blogger settings automatically. You can also shop around through this list:

To purchase a domain from Blogger follow these steps:
  1. Settings
  2. Publishing tab
  3. Just select the Custom Domain option
  4. enter the domain name you'd like and click Check Availability.
  5. This will take you to the Google Apps domain purchase website, which will let you know if the domain is available and proceed with the registration if it is.
  6. Finally, you'll go to Google Checkout where you'll make your payment. Your domain is registered with one of our registration partners, either eNom or GoDaddy.
You'll get a domain registration confirmation email from Google Apps. Clicking the link in this email allows you to sign this domain up for an Apps account. Google Checkout will also send you an email with the order receipt.

The first registered domain name:  SYMBOLICS.COM
Visit the following website (which is the longest registered domain name) to see the first 100 registered domain names!

Read more »
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