Quick+Movie+Tutorials

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 * 1. Subscribe to this KIS Cadre Wiki with Bloglines.** Let Bloglines tell you when new content has been posted here! (4 minute tutorial--open a new window, go to this wiki, and follow the video directions as you watch!)

If you're thinking of using wikis with your learners, this is a must-see. Bloglines makes an otherwise overwhelming teacher-task incredibly easy. See all new wiki additions on one Bloglines page, grade, and comment on them as you go. Smarter, not harder teaching! media type="google" key="8856527951038189621&hl=en"
 * 2. Managing class wiki projects using RSS subscriptions to Bloglines (4 minutes)**

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 * 3. Upload and embed videos to your blog, wiki, Moodle, or other website using Google Video (Part 1: 2 minutes)**

media type="google" key="-5891766209896410839&hl=en" Note: You can teach your students this in about 2 minutes. It makes them like blogging (thus writing) more.
 * 4. Upload and embed videos to your blog, wiki, Moodle, or other website using Google Video (Part 2: 2 minutes 11 seconds):**

I made this over winter break. It's a recap of the Bloglines stuff we walked through in our first meeting. (Check out "Google Reader" for an alternative RSS aggregator they just launched. Some prefer it. I've got my Bloglines habits, so....I'm a bad learner.) media type="google" key="8145250375339361784&hl=en"
 * 5. Using Bloglines, an RSS Feed Aggregator, to Encourage Free Voluntary Reading for Our Leaners (10 min.):**

In the Google Age, there is little need to stuff learners with minutiae memorization. //Finding// information and //efficiently managing and producing with it// are the new literacy skills our students will need for their future. Diigo is a year old, and revolutionary. Elementary students can learn this too. Another dead easy, deadly powerful new read-write web tool. Research will never need index cards again. Another tutorial from Beyond School, made over winter break. media type="google" key="1495295958558401653&hl=en"
 * 6. Use Diigo for Research: Online Bookmarking, Highlighting, Annotating, Blogging, and Sharing Websites You Read:**

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 * 7. How to use Bloglines to view, comment on, and assess student blog- and wiki-work on a single webpage** (6 minutes. You really, really, really should watch this one. I just discovered it today. The homework and grading pile will never be so chaotic again.)

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 * 8. How to embed ClustrMaps and other widgets on a Blogger blog** (9 min.): ClustrMaps is an incredible motivator for student blogging (as are free counters and other audience-feedback widgets). This 9 minute tutorial shows you how easy it is to embed one on Blogger.

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 * 9. How to embed ClustrMaps and other widgets on a WordPress/Learnerblog blog** (9 min.): WordPress is a bit less dummy-proof for adding widgets, but with the help of Edublogs forums, I figured it out. Hope it helps--again, don't bother with this until we get WordPress installed on the KIS server. (Soon, I hope. This week?)

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 * 10. Introduction to Wikispaces (8 minutes):** For basic tour of wikispaces. ALSO see wikispaces' own quick, easy tutorials at http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction . They're all **less than two minutes each.** Let it be as easy as it is. Then just start exploring. There's no one way to use them, so just start trying different things. Feel free to look at two projects I've done at [|http:burell9history.wikispaces.com] and http://burell9english.wikispaces.com for ideas and messy examples.