What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media

Introduction 1

1 Blogs 3
Kristin Hokanson and Christian Long

2 Wikis 13
Stephanie Sandifer and Vicki A. Davis

3 Podcasts and Webinars 25
Steve Dembo and Wesley Fryer

4 RSS and RSS Readers 37
Will Richardson and Karl Fisch

5 Digital Video 45
Mathew Needleman

6 Virtual Schooling 53
Michael Barbour and Richard E. Ferdig

Interlude: Social Media Is Changing the Way We Live and Learn 67
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

7 One- to- One Computing 75
Chris Lehmann and Pamela Livingston

8 Free and Open Source Software 83
Tom Hoffman

9 Educational Gaming 93
John W. Rice

10 Social Bookmarking 101
Dean Shareski and Mary Beth Hertz

11 Online Mind Mapping 107
Carl Anderson and Richard Byrne

12 Course Management Systems 117
Scott S. Floyd and Miguel Guhlin

Interlude: See Sally Research: Evolving Notions of Information Literacy 123
Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson

13 Online Tool Suites 137
Diana Laufenberg and Mark Wagner

14 Twitter 147
Alec Couros and Kevin Jarrett

15 Online Images and Visual Literacy 153
Kimberly Cofino and David Jakes

16 Mobile Phones and Mobile Learning 159
Liz Kolb and Sharon Tonner

17 Social Networking 173
Ewan McIntosh and Jeff Utecht

Afterword 183
Christopher D. Sessums

About the Editors 189

About the Contributors 191

Index 203