Welcome to BCC Classroom 2.0
Faculty can learn and use the tools bundled in the category of Web 2.0 to enhance classroom instruction
and interaction with students. This guide has been prepared for BCC faculty to be viewed independently
(self-guided) or as a tool for one-on-one or group exploration with the CTL staff.
Following are some terms and brief descriptions that are explored in these tutorials. All topics are linked
to further information on the topic.
Term
Description
Important:
Link to topic materials by hovering over topic, holding ctrl key and then left click.
Blogs
Blogs, or Weblogs, are easily
created and updateable websites
that allow the author (such as an
instructor) to create a website for
classroom interaction with
students. Blogs are becoming a
standard communication method
used by faculty and students. Class
information can be made available
24/7. Blogs provide a forum for
student and faculty
comments/questions.
Tutorials:
http://blog.com/
EduBlog Tutorials:
http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach
EduBlog Samples:
http://blogs.cornell.edu
http://blogs.cccc.vic.edu.au
http://mybcd.org/
How to create a blog with blogger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY
http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
Samples sites:
http://tinyurl.com/636vh5
http://21classes.com/
Flickr
Tutorials:
Flickr is an image and video hosting
website, web services suite, and
online community platform. In
addition to being a popular website
for users to share personal
photographs, the service is widely
used by bloggers as a photo
repository. As of October 2009, it
claims to host more than 4 billion
images.
http://www.flickr.com/tour/
Flip Video
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
Off-line tutorial:
Flickr
Official site:
http://www.flickr.com/
GoogleDocs
Tutorials:
Getting started with Google docs
Google Docs is a free online
http://edutech.msu.edu/online/GoogleDocs/GoogleDocs.html
program that allows users to create
documents, spreadsheets and
Google Docs Tutorial for Teachers
presentations online and share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrvY0YQWE4
them with others for collaboration.
This allows educators and students
to share their work with others,
collaborate on assignments, and
save documents online for access at
school or at home. [Google docs
can be made available to BCC
students over time, as BCC student
email does include the Google Docs
automatically.]
Podcasts
Podcasts use the iTunes platform to
store recorded lectures [also videos
or narrated slideshows] so that
students may either listen the
content online, or download the
content to an iPod or other MP3
player. BCC is establishing an
“iTunes University” page so that
faculty may upload recorded
lectures for students to review.
Tutorials:
http://www.feedforall.com/podcasting-tutorial.htm
How to Podcast
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00-podcast-tutorialfour-ps.htm
How to create a podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrBbczS9I0
Learning Podcasting
http://www.wise-women.org/tutorials/podcast/
Samples sites:
http://www.lifescript.com/Life/Timeout/Chill/A_Beginners_Gu
ide_To_Podcasting.aspx?
RSS
RSS stands for "Really Simple
Syndication." It is a way to easily
distribute a list of headlines, update
notices, and content to a wide
number of people. It is used by
computer programs that organize
those headlines and notices for
easy reading. An example of RSS is
the Google News site, which lists
headlines from newspapers around
Tutorials:
What is RSS?
http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html
Tutorial: Create RSS Feeds for your website
http://www.labnol.org/internet/create-rss-feed-forwebsites/5470/
RSS Tutorial
http://rss-tutorial.com/
How to make a RSS/Feed in about a minute
the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIdmMsJSYo
Skype
Tutorials:
Skype enables millions of
individuals and businesses to make
free video and voice calls, send
instant messages and share files
with other Skype users over the
Internet (this is known as Voice
over Internet Protocol (VIOP). Every
day, people also use Skype to make
low-cost calls to landlines and
mobiles.
Skype video tutorial
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=41492
http://about.skype.com/
Social
Bookmarking
Tutorial and Samples site:
Wiki
Wiki Tutorials:
http://docs.thinkfree.com/docs/view.php?dsn=858149
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbhCmnjg3Ys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgyUvMYGY8g
Wikipedia
A free online encyclopedia. The
name is a portmanteau of the
Wikipedia link - http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikispaces link – Free wikis provided with registration.
http://www.wikispaces.com
Hawaiian word for quick,
"wiki", and "encyclopedia.”
Tutorials:
Actively updated in over 100
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
languages, the English language
Wikipedia contains over 1.5
million articles
Social
Networking
Introduction:
A social network site consists of a
user’s profile with personal
information, his/her social links,
and a variety of additional services,
such as chat, photo repository,
links, and blogs.
http://www.ning.com
http://docs.thinkfree.com/docs/view.php?dsn=858149
Social Networking sites used for Education:
http://www.edmodo.com/
Create a YouTube Account
YouTube
How to Search YouTube
WordPress link:
WordPress
http://www.wordpress.com
A blog platform that offers free
space to bloggers who set up
their own websites. It supports
links, audio, video, images, web
pages, polls, “widgets,” and
many other features
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What is Flickr
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Upload
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Edit
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Organize
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Share
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Maps
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Make Stuff
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Keep in Touch
Upload
There are 5 simple ways to upload your photos and videos to Flickr
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via the Flickr Uploadr (available for both
PC and Mac)
via iPhoto, Aperture, or Windows XP
plug-in
via our upload web page
via email
via various free third-party desktop
programs
And if you're not near a computer? Snap a
photo or video on your mobile phone, email it to
Flickr, and have it appear on the site in seconds
The Flickr Uploadr
Edit
Editing your photos is easy with our partner, Picnik. Get rid of red eye,
crop a photo or get creative with loads of different effects!
Start by clicking the "Edit Photo" button in the toolbar above your photo.
Click on the "Edit Photo" button to get started.
If this is the first time you've clicked on the "Edit Photos" button, you will be asked to pass through the
step of authorizing Picnik to load up your photos. (You'll only have to do this once.)
Enable Picnik to open inside your Flickr account.
After you've authorized Picnik, edit your photo to your heart's content! Then just click "Save" and
you're all done.
Experiment with the Picnik editing features.
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What is Flickr
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Upload
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Edit
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Organize
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Share
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Maps
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Make Stuff
Organize
Sets are a grouping of photos and videos that you can organize around a certain theme, such as Our
Hawaii Trip. You can use them to highlight your favorite photos and videos, or make an album that is
only pictures of your dog, or of photos and videos you've taken with a particular camera.
A user's sets page
A set
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Collections are a grouping of Sets (or other Collections) so you can organize around grander
themes, such as People, Travels, or by year (2007, 2006, etc).
A user's Collections Page
A Collection
The Organizr is where both Collections and Sets are created. It also allows you to perform common
tasks on large batches of photos and videos, such as tagging, changing permissions, or editing
timestamps. It’s really rather handy.
Organize your Sets & Collections
Share
With millions of users, and hundreds of millions of photos and videos,
Flickr is an amazing photographic community, with sharing at its heart.
Groups are a way for people to come together around a common interest, be it a love of small dogs,
a passion for food, a recent wedding, or an interest in exploring photographic techniques. And if you
can’t find a group which interests you, it’s super-easy to start your own.
Groups can either be public, public (invite only), or completely private. Every group has a pool for
sharing photos and videos and a discussion board for talking.
A group's homepage
a new group
Privacy is a common area for concern on the web, but on Flickr it’s easy to control who you share
your images with. For each of your photos and videos on Flickr you can set:
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privacy level, which determines who can see your image
usage license, so your copyrights are protected
content type, flag your photos and videos as either photos and videos, artwork/illustrations, or
screenshots
safety level, so other members only see images within their specified comfort zones
Example of
setting a photo or video's privacy level
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What is Flickr
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Upload
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Edit
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Organize
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Share
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Maps
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Make Stuff
Maps
Great shot - where'd you take that?
Flickr's great for exploring photos and videos by photographer, tag, time, text, and group, and now it's
also great for exploring photos and videos by place.
Map
showing geotagged photos
Drag-and-drop your photos and videos onto a map (using the Organizr) to show where you took
them, or browse a world map to see where other people have been and what they saw.
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Make Stuff
Do more with your photos! Turn your Flickr images into beautiful prints,
cards, photo books, calendars, and much more on Snapfish.
Use your favorite Flickr images to create stuff on Snapfish. Check out what you can make or head
over to the Snapfish Group for more ideas!
Prints
High-quality prints and enlargements to showcase your best images. Choose matte or glossy finish,
add borders or create a collage photo. Then pick up in-store or get home delivery.
Posters
Let your best images live large! Choose from a variety of different sizes to decorate your home or
office—up to 20" x 30". Superior quality paper and fade resistant for 200 years. Mail order or pick up
in-store.
Cards
Create customized cards that stand out from the rest. Choose from hundreds of designs that let your
photos do the talking for you. Plus, personalize the front, inside, and back.
Photo books
Create a portfolio of your best images or showcase them in a coffee table book. Choose from several
different styles, themes, and hard- or soft-cover.
Calendars
Let your best images inspire you all year long. Personalize individual dates with photos to remember
special events. Available in a variety of sizes, styles and designs. Printed on top-quality paper with
sturdy spiral binding.
Collage Products
All your great photos together to tell the whole story. Turn your amazing images into art with collage
posters and canvases. Or create fun unique collage gifts with mugs and prints.
Canvas
All your great photos together to tell the whole story. Turn your amazing images into art with collage
posters and canvases. Or create fun unique collage gifts with mugs and prints.
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What is Flickr
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Upload
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Edit
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Organize
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Share
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Maps
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Make Stuff
Keep in Touch
Friends, Family, and Contacts
Building relationships on Flickr is easy. When you add someone as a contact you can also choose to
add them as your Friend or Family (or both).
Adding a contact is easy
Choosing one or more contact-types
Using the “Contacts” page, or by subscribing to a daily email, you're able to keep up to date with what
your buddies are doing. And they can do the same for you.
Guest Pass
If you’d like to share your private photos and videos with people who don’t have a Flickr account (like,
your Grandma, or friends from a wedding), you can use our Guest Pass feature to grant them special
access. You’re able to expire the passes whenever you like.
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Manage
your Guest Passes
Notes and Comments
Posting photos and videos for friends and family to see is much more rewarding when they’re able to
leave you feedback. Notes allow contacts to leave messages directly on your photos and videos
(don’t worry, they only appear when you mouseover the image), while comments allow for a more
general discussion below the image.
Reading notes left on a
photo or video, with comments below
And that's the end of our short tour, so...
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform.
In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is
widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.[1] As of October 2009, it claims to host more than
4 billion images.[2]
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Introduction to Blogs and Wikis
A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a website, usually maintained by an individual with
regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or
video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. [Wikipedia]
A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to
contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.[1][2] Wikis are often used to
create collaborative websites and to power community websites. [Wikipedia]
Blogs and wikis share some common traits:
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They are both websites.
They are both user-generated (the content of blogs and wikis is created by the actual
people who use the blogs or wikis)
They are based on the notion that multiple viewpoints are valuable, and the technology
allows those viewpoints to be `transparently reflected in socially constructed documents
or stories
What are wikis better at than blogs:
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Wikis are better at archiving information for easy access.
Wikis are better at gathering information from a group of people. For example, the wiki
Library Success collects information from librarians around the world.
What are blogs better at than wikis:
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Blogs are better at quickly sharing new information.
Blogs are better at starting and maintaining a dialog between the publisher and reader.
EXAMPLES
Wikipedia - Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia. The name is a portmanteau of the Hawaiian
word for quick, "wiki", and "encyclopedia.” Actively updated in over 100 languages, the English
language Wikipedia contains over 1.5 million articles http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikispaces – Free wikis provided with registration. http://www.wikispaces.com
Wordpress – Is a blog platform that offers free space to bloggers who set up their own websites.
It supports links, audio, video, images, webpages, polls, “widgets,” and many other features
http://www.wordpress.com
Blogspot – Blogspot is another free blog site which uses the “Blogger” blog technology. Blogger
was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. http://www.blogspot.com
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How To Search Youtube.
Start by going to the Youtube website.
Then enter key words into the search bar.
Here is where the keywords go. These are descriptive words there should help narrow
down what you are looking for. The default is for video searches but you can also search for
Channels. (Author’s have accounts that are channels.)
Example: searched for
“Calculus”
Some of the results are useful and some are garbage but in yellow are the number of results
I got for the
search.
The highlighted section points out different ways to order the results. Defaults are “Relevance” “Anytime” and
“All.”
Relevance can be replaced with “Date Added,” “View Count,” or “Rating.”
Anytime can be replaced with “Today,” “This Week,” or “This Month.”
All can be replaced with “Partner Videos,” “Annotations,” or “Closed Captions.”
These are suggested searches to help narrow down results.
Even if you do a video search and change your mind and decide channel would have
been better, you can click the word “Channels” and it will show a list of related
channels.
Display is the remaining feature in the bar.
It changes the layout from rows to thumbnails.
That is the simple side of search in youtube.
Advanced searching
Many of these features are self explanatory.
Under Settings the two options do the following.
Display query suggestions as I type. While you type the keywords a list of suggestions and
similarly spelled words will show up under keywords box.
Filter videos that may not be suitable for minors. If the video has been flagged by the poster
to be for 18 and up this video will be filtered out. This usually includes vulgar language and
violence but porn isn’t allowed on this site.
Within the find results section of the advanced searches there are a number of keyword
boxes with different purposes.
The first is the default box that regular searches use. “Will all of the words.” All results will
have all the listed words.
“With the exact phrase” means it will have all the words in that box in that exact order.
“With at least one of the words” will make sure there is a minimum of one of the words
listed in that box.
“Without the words” offers a way to remove some common results that may not fit your
topic but the words you supply in the keyword box could fit it
An example of this would be I did a search for Calculus but got a bunch of music videos and movie clips to an MTV spoof on
boybands that has a song that repeatedly has the word calculus as a lyric. So some things I could type in this box would be
the word “together” or “2gether” which would lessen the number of those results.
Another note if you want to have a shortcut remove words put a minus in front of the word in the regular search keyword
box when not in the advanced page.
Location -when posting a video there is a prompt asking where this video was shot.
Also any fields left blank won’t be applied to the search.
The “Refine Further by:” section breaks down into these options.
Duration- Short (under 4min)
Medium (4 to 20 min)
Long (more than 20 min)
Language- if you want to limit the results to only English pick English. There is a long list of
languages.
Category- if you want to narrow it using the category feature click “specific categories.” The
section of categories will become visible then. Many people will not put many of these on
their videos so this is not recommended.
The last two are the sorting features covered on the results page but if you wish to set these
right away here they are.
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How to Create an Account for YouTube
The URL Is
HTTP://WWW.YouTube.com
Click the Sign up link.
Then enter your information and Click the Create my Account link. (The password
it asks for is not the password to your email but the password you are setting up
for the youtube account.)
It will take you to this screen if you typed everything correctly.
After that you go to the email that was entered into the account.
Open the email from Youtube.
Either click the link or copy and paste the URL into the browser.
The link should lead to a page similar to the picture below.
Now you can upload videos and “favorite” other people’s videos from your new
account.
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