Most students use Social Networking tools daily to communicate
with each other. Faculty can use this phenomenon to increase
student engagement and learning. Here are some popular academic
uses:
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Wiki: A website that allows multiple users
to create, modify and organize content collaboratively.
- Uses: Group work, collaborative
writing, create review material jointly, building content
that is dynamic and changeable (Example: Wikipedia)
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Getting started:
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Blog: An online journal that is frequently
updated and intended to be shared.Visitors can comment,
thereby adding interactivity, and group blogs are available.
- Uses: Communicating with students,
personal journals to track ongoing progress, building
community, reflection, debate, knowledge sharing
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Getting Started:
- http://www.blogger.com
- To populate your blog with all the email addresses
of your students, copy/paste the information from your
Campus Connection class list to the Blogger setup
information by following these simple steps:
- When setting up your blog, you'll be asked to
supply the email addresses of anyone you want to
invite into the blog.
- Go to the NDSU home page http://www.ndsu.edu and
choose the Campus
Connection link.
- Sign in using the fields provided.
- Choose Self Service
from the menu on the left, and then choose
Faculty Center.
- Find your class displayed and click on the
3-person icon to view the Class Roster.
- Choose the Notify Listed
Students button at the bottom of the
roster.
- Highlight the student email addresses in the
BCC box and press CTRL-C
to copy them.
- Return to Blogger and paste the addresses into
the appropriate field using
CTRL-V.
- Continue on with the setup of the blog.
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Scholar: Social bookmarking service that is
customized for education. It is built into Blackboard as a
separate tab.