Mission Possible #7, Social Networking #2: LinkedIn
Are you Linked In?
Your Mission, should you chose to accept it, is to make professional connections!
LinkedIn is Facebook ’s more “professional” cousin. The purpose of LinkedIn is to make professional connections, as opposed to the more “personal” connections in Facebook. (I don’t know about you, but Facebook is very “professional” for me as well.) One of the professional activities you can engage in with LinkedIn is to “Recommend” someone.
Like the Facebook mission, your mission is to be professionally social:
- Join LinkedIn
- Make friends with soem folks at your school or in the district (those of us writing the Mission Possible posts all have LinkedIn accounts: Alisa Cooper, Devon Adams, Biray Alsac, Lisa Young, and yours truly Shelley Rodrigo);
- Write a recommendation for your friend;
- Join the Maricopa Tech LinkedIn Group ;
- Participate in the discussion about “What technology do you want to “play” with this upcoming summer?” and
- Submit a link under the “news” tab.
So go to LinkedIn.com, start an account, and be social!
This message will not self destruct, instead it will linger forever as a ghost on the web.
(cc) image “HUGE LINK” posted at Flickr by Elephant Wearing Striped Pants
Mission Possible #6: Social Networking #1-Facebook
Your Mission, should you chose to accept it, is to be social.
If you haven’t heard of Facebook, where have you been? I’m confident readers of this blog have at least heard of Facebook; however, you may have wondered, “why Facebook?” Or more importantly, why social networking?
There are a variety of social networks out there: MySpace , Facebook , LinkedIn , etc. Technically even YouTube is a social network; all users have their own page (aka, channel) and can connect to other channels. You can even make your own social network using Ning.
Specifically, Facebook allows you to make friends, communicate with them in a variety of ways, start groups, organize events, graffeti one another’s walls, through stuff at one another (virtualy of course on these last two), as well as tons of other stuff.
Specifically for this mission possible, your mission is to:
- Join Facebook;
- Make friends with some folks at your school or in the district (those of us writing the Mission Possible posts all have Facebook accounts: Alisa Cooper , Devon Adams , Biray Alsac , Lisa Young , and yours truly Shelley Rodrigo );
- Write on your new friend’s wall;
- Write on your new friend’s wall;
- Join the Maricopa Tech Facebook Group ;
- Participate in the discussion about “new” technologies;
- Unofficially RSVP whether or not you’ll attend the conference (it’s an event associated with the group ).
So go to facebook.com, start an account, and be social!
This message will not self destruct, instead it will linger forever as a ghost on the web.
Maricopa Tech 2009: Mission Possible
“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
–Alvin Toffler
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is play with us!
Various groups like The Partnership for 21st Century Skills repeatedly remind us that students need to be literate in various information, media, and communication technologies. However, don’t forget, as professionals who work with students, we need to model these literate practices.
To help prepare for participating virtually in Maricopa’s annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, come participate in Maricopa Tech’s Mission Possible. Every other week we’ll introduce a technology that we’ll be using at the conference, here at the Maricopa Tech blog. Basically each message will briefly introduce you to the technology, ask you to start an account, and then give you a task or two to practice with it. By the time May arrives you’ll be super-slueths with the various technologies and ready to virtually engage everyone else at the conference. Some of the technologies we’ll be exploring include: Textmarks, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, delicious, Diigo, Ning, Utterli, and Slideshare.
This message will not self destruct, instead it will linger forever as a ghost on the web.
This (cc) image is posted @Flickr by CogDogBlog.
Attend Virtually
So you couldn’t make it to the Maricopa Community College District’s 2008 Teaching & Learning with Technology Conference…that’s ok, attend virtually. The key place to track us virtually is here at http://maricopatech.org/. All of the live blogging, and other live events, will be posted in individual blog entries there.
You can also follow us and add your own comments in:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaricopaTech
- Utterz: http://www.utterz.com/~t-maricopatech/list.php
- Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/maricopatech/
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/maricopatech (these may not be up until after the conference)
If you are feeling very brave, join our text messaging listserv by texting “MTECH” to 41411.
We also have two social networking sites set up:
- Ning: http://www.classroom20.com/group/maricopatech
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12758986589
Whereas these may not be happening the day of the conference, let’s get them moving afterwards. Virtual attendees can help by joining and posting questions that you would like live attendees to respond to.
Similarly we have a Wetpaint Wiki started as well. Join the party by adding your own information at: http://maricopatech.wetpaint.com/
Finally, you may want to track pages attendees bookmark at:
Last Minute Planning: Day 1
Based on the various tweets and utterz posted on the right, don’t mistakenly think we only started working on this conference today (come on…this beautiful website would not exist if we hadn’t); however, with only one week until liftoff, it is crunch time. Actually, planning a conference is a lot like completing a major writing project. The vast majority of the serious content work takes lots of time; however, it is all the polishing that people notice. In other words, content matters, but if you don’t do a good job copyediting (double, triple, quadruple checking with IT and Media, well designed program, etc.) no one will actually “read” your important content. This week it’s all about running around dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s.
Innovation at All Levels
Mark your calendar for Maricopa Community College’s premier learning technology event on May 13, 2008 at Mesa Community College in the Kirk Student Center, Navajo Room. The program, “innovation at all levels,” will include track and poster sessions, exhibits, presentations, workshops and more.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Michael Wesch
Project Coordinator:
mediatedcultures.net @ kansas state university
Assistant Professor:
Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography
Visit the conference website for more information.
