Twitter for Beginners

Please join Kim Caise and Lorna Costantini on Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm EST for a ‘Twitter for Beginners‘ webinar. The session will be in Elluminate and anyone new to using Twitter is invited to join us. If you are already an avid Twitter user and tired of training your colleagues and friends suggest that they join our session on March 24th.

During the session, Kim and I will walk the participants through the basics of using Twitter. Participants will sign up for a Twitter account and the use of the Tweetdeck application will be featured to demonstrate different aspects of using Twitter. Participants may create a Twitter account and download Tweetdeck for use during and after the Elluminate session.

Tweetdeck is a fantastic application to manage Twitter feeds but it is not required to successfully use Twitter. Tweetdeck is an easy application for beginners and helps Twitter users become more adept at using Twitter on a larger scale and for this reason we will be using this application in our sessions.

If you are new to Elluminate, you may want to join the session a bit early to make sure that you do not have difficulty accessing the session. You can use your computer microphone to ask questions or use the chat window to participate in the discussion using text only. The ‘Twitter for Beginners’ session will be offered through the ‘Host Your Own Webinars‘ group at LearnCentral.You can register for the session at the LearnCentral event page or email us at info@elearncenter.ca. This session is free and open to the public. If you are unable to register or email us prior to the start of the session, please still join us.

The “Twitter for Beginners‘ webinar will be the first session of our new venture and offerings of our innovative ‘eLearning Center‘ training center. Each week, Kim and I get requests for us to create webinars on a variety of topics for beginners.Our sessions will be designed to offer support and resources to beginners just starting to use web 2.0 tools and technologies. All of our training sessions can be customized for groups of employees or faculty members.

Test your system
Link to Elluminate room: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid n=2008350&password=M.438D554F4A450D77B901E14104C303

Short URL to Elluminate room: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live

How to set up a feedreader using Bloglines

This mini tutorial is a follow up to the live.conversations at www.classroom2.0.com
The Newbie topic for the week was what is a feedreader.
Here is a short video explanation describing how to set up a feed reader using Bloglines. Quicktime player required to view the movie.

Live conversations at Classroom 2.0

Classroom 2.0 is well known for the collaboration between teachers and others around technology and teaching. Thanks to Steve Haragdon‘s energy and vision you are now able to participate in live conversations - I like to think of them as mini- lessons – about using technology in the classroom.

This Saturday January 17th ( see here for times) the show will be about using Google forms to make things easier for teachers.

Tom Barrett’s blog post is the reading for the session.

If you have never participated in an Elluminate session, please watch this 5 min demonstration. Requires Java

Have a free online conference call using Skype

We have all gone through the experience of trying to match different schedules and locations when trying to organize parent meetings. We have found a way to meet these challenges.
This is a free method of connecting individuals or groups online using Voice over the Interent Protocol (VOIP) with Skype.

Recipe:
1. Computer with audio and usb headsets; internet access and a free Skype account.
2. Create a Skype account register at Skype
The user id you create will be used to connect the other members of your group. WIth this setup you will be able to communicate from one computer to anothercomputer to any where in the world for free.

3. Setup a conference call.
Open your contacts list.

From the menu bar at the top of the screen, select call. From the drop down menu select conference call.

In the conference call widow, Select the contact from the list and move the contact to the second window. Continue to add contacts until you have all the contacts you wish to join the meeting.
When you have finished select start. The conference call will begin and you can start your meeting.

Send your meeting agenda to all the participants by email. You are all set. You can forget about the babysitter.

Having a hard time explaining how to use Rss feeds?

Here is an excellent CommonCraft explanation. Using the Google Reader application to aggregate your favourite blogs

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