APPETIZERS

Digital learning activities in “small bites” to get started.

1. Wikis – easy as making a peanut butter sandwich

• pbwiki
• Create a wiki
• Embed a YouTube video in a wiki page
• Add a Google tool to a wiki page

2. Blogs

• Subscribe to a blog
• Comment on a blog

3. Social Bookmarking

• del.icio.us
• Bookmark a site to del.icio.us
• Edit tags
• View tagged lists

4. Streaming Video

• YouTube
• Download a YouTube video using keepvid

5. Photo Sharing

• Flickr
• Upload a photo to flickr from a camera phone
• Use the flickr Uploader
• Add title, details, change date and tag pictures
• Use a third party flickr search engine
• Annote a picture
• flickr slideshow
• Organize pictures
• Geotag pictures
  Short writing assignments with photo prompts

6. Social Networking

• Ning
• Join Ning
• Upload photos from flickr (API application programming interface)
• Upload an mp3 file
• Create a blog entry

7. Audio Recording

• Audacity
• Record a readers’ theatre
• Record a file and exporting as an mp3
• Record with an mp3 device, opening in Audacity and editing