SPARK Career Placement Success with Web 2.0 Tools

1. SPARK Career Placement Success with Web 2.0 Tools Dr. Eileen Dittmar, Department Chair and Faculty, First Course Department Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, USA eileen.dittmar@capella.edu http://eileendittmar.wordpress.com/school2careers/ http://bit.ly/13Ram6P

2. Spark Career Placement • Career-focused professionals have numerous web 2.0 tools for enhancing their own careers and/or assisting students with theirs. • With the vast array of web 2.0 resources, how can anyone keep up or know the difference? • While it may not be possible to know everything about all technologies, it is valuable to explore technologies and find a handful that might benefit your style.

3. Spark Career Placement • Career-focused education has never been more important for higher ed. Can your students demonstrate employability skills? • Offers a drive through and discussion about Web tools relevant for career-focused educators and students. • See the accompanying paper for details. • Follow #School2Careers.

4. Spark Career Placement LiveBinders http://livebinders.com/ • Description: Amazing way to create a collection of websites. Users can create livebinders for personal use and for sharing. Students can get organized by creating them by subject or for sharing their skills with potential employers.

5. Spark Career Placement Binders for you http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=269484Dr. Dittmar's School2Careers Binder (31 Career Development & Planning Resources)

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7. Spark Career Placement http://livebinders.com/play/play/224967Dr. Dittmar's Integrating Mobile Technology with Learning.

8. Spark Career Placement http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=750791Dr. Dittmar's Web 2.0 Resources for Writing Skill Development.

9. Spark Career Placement http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=779595Dr. Dittmar’sSoftskills Resources

10. Spark Career Placement http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=269550 Dr. Dittmar's Virtual Presenter Guide; tips for creating powerful presentations.

11. Spark Career Placement http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=391027 Dr. Dittmar’s Business Communications Resources

12. Spark Career Placement Wordpress Blog http://wordpress.com/ Description: WordPress.com is brought to the public for free by some of the same folks who work on the open source blogging software available at WordPress.org. For Career Use: blog a specialization with About me page that contains digital resume. Tutorials: http://learn.wordpress.com/ • View "freshly pressed" for ideas (or search by topic) http://wordpress.com/#!/read/fresh/ Other blog providers: Blogger http://www.blogger.com Tumblrhttps://www.tumblr.com

13. Spark Career Placement • Social Bookmarking • Delicious • http://www.delicious.com/ • Description: Store your URLs, organize by tags and stacks; follow tags and stacks. See Eileen’s public URLs at www.delicious.com/edittmar • Diigo • https://www.diigo.com/ • Collect, highlight, then remember. Has a link for converting from Delicious to Diigo. • Kathy Schrock’s Diigo of Web tools: https://www.diigo.com/list/Kathyschrock/web20tools

14. Spark Career Placement • Social Bookmarking • Stumbleupon.com • http://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo/ • Description: StumbleUpon takes you to web pages, photos, and videos handpicked by your friends and like-minded people. Instructor can create a class login/pw. • Top 15 • Top 15 social bookmark sites (Jan 2013) http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites

15. Spark Career Placement • Enhanced Virtual Places for Files and Collaboration • Box.com • http://www.box.com • Description: Organized online workspace for managing and sharing files. A variety of file types open in usable view and collaborators can comment or discuss or edit. Has a feel of a wiki but integrated with an operating system and blog. For more info https://www.box.com/about-us/ • Dropbox.com • http://www.dropbox.com • Description: Similar to Box; but for Windows users it offers directory style view that is familiar Windows operating system. For more info https://www.dropbox.com/help

16. Spark Career Placement Enhanced Virtual Places for Files and Collaboration • ThinkFree • http://www.thinkfree.com/ • Description: Offers Thinkfree Online, Thinkfree Mobile, Thinkfree Service, and Thinkfree Office. • For more info http://www.thinkfree.com/thinkfree/thinkfreeMain.jsp • And many more

17. Spark Career Placement Online Learning/flipped classroom Sofia http://www.sophia.org/ Description: Social learning network of free tutorials, lectures, and multimedia for common subject matter relevant to college studies, lifelong learning, and more. TED http://www.ted.com/ Description: Huge collection of lectures; filter for topics. Venerable open source institution TED makes its impressive suite of video lectures on every subject imaginable (available on the iPad for maximum infotainment).

18. Spark Career Placement Online Learning/flipped classroom Kahn Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/ Description: Khan Academy features some incredible videos by experts hoping to educate viewers about anything and everything they might find interesting. MOOC http://bit.ly/QGTPyC Description: Explains MOOC and lists top ten. For more information: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-26/top-business-schools-embrace-moocs https://twitter.com/search?q=%23moocs

19. Spark Career Placement Financial Tools CalcMoolator http://calcmoolator.com/ Description: CalcMoolator offers over 50 free financial calculators for the web, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Some of our most popular calculators are: Tip Calculator, House Rent vs. Buy, Auto Loan Estimate, Auto Lease vs. Buy, Mortgage Payment Estimate, and Pay Off My Credit Card Debt Sooner (and much more!).

20. Spark Career Placement Financial Tools List of calculators http://www.calcmoolator.com/calculators.php Mint https://www.mint.com/ Description: Record and analyze financial information for student projects. Over 5 million people use Mint. Has app for mobile devices.

21. Spark Career Placement Visuals Slideshare.net http://www.slideshare.net/ Description: Slideshare is an excellent way to share presentations, documents and professional videos. Easy to get a free account to upload and share. For ideas and examples: (1) on home page, review the featured presentations, (2) click “popular” in the top menu or (3) search by topics of interest. http://www.slideshare.net/about has two examples; first without audio, second with audio.

22. Spark Career Placement Alison Topper (2011) this presentation without audiohttp://www.slideshare.net/alisontopper/a-comparison-of-2-social-bookmarking-sites which compares Delicious (http://delicious.com) and Diigo (http:/diigo.com). The presentation also provides basic information about social bookmarking. SlideShare’s Help page: http://help.slideshare.com/home

23. Spark Career Placement SlideShare’s Help page: http://help.slideshare.com/home SlideShare Instructions for audio using Slidecast to insert mp3 file with Slideshare: http://help.slideshare.com/entries/57609-can-you-describe-how-to-create-a-slidecast-step-by-step Lecture on giving feedback in online teaching http://www.slideshare.net/jalinskens67/meaningful-feedback-in-the-online-learning-environment

24. Spark Career Placement PADLET http://padlet.com/ Description: similar to Glogster (probably the same usage) and similar to Pinterest; however, users have a wall with tabs to post on the wall and the tabs can be URLs, pictures, words, anything. Their gallery http://padlet.com/gallery shows examples of URL collections.

25. Spark Career Placement Prezihttp://prezi.com Description :Educators praise Prezi. It is among the hottest tools to gain educator attention this past couple of years. The site is easy yet effective for creating and sharing presentations. Many call it the PowerPoint Alternative, but much better than PowerPoint. View “What is Prezi” video and tour of its features on the Prezi home page. Prezi for Education: Come on, you know your students are tired of PowerPoint – get on the Prezi bandwagon quick and easy. Ideas: Place a course introduction in Prezi to show your first day of class. Prezi gives faculty the chance to think outside the box and help our students to think more creatively. PreziLearn http://prezi.com/learn/Prezi’s manual: http://prezi.com/learn/manual/

26. Spark Career Placement Virtual Meetings & Collaborations Google Hangouts Description: Virtual space using webcams for up to ten people. Ideal for team meetings and small coaching sessions. Learn more about educational uses: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/educators-schools-google-hangouts-mary-beth-hertz http://www.edutopia.org/blog/google-hangouts-teacher-development-ben-johnson http://www.edutopia.org/blog/google-hangouts-connecting-sharing-learning-andrew-marcinek Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/ Description: Perfect for group work when participants are at different locations. Free calls, video calls, and screen sharing. /

27. Spark Career Placement Screencasting Screenr http://www.screenr.com/ Description: Free screen capture software to "capture your computer screen" and create tutorials.  Excellent if you want students to be able to show you what they did on the computer.

28. Spark Career Placement Audio Stuff MyBrainShark www.mybrainshark.com Description: Amazingly easy to create audio podcasts saved as mp3 file to share in email, messages, and websites. Brainshark offers other features usable in education. The advanced features for a fee are not needed. BrainShark for Education: Use to practice sharpening your voice. Guide students to use it as a way to develop their voice and speeches.

29. Spark Career Placement Next is a road show. Thank you for following this presentation! Be sure to download the accompanying white paper if you would like more details. I invite further discussions at AACE and beyond! Eileendittmar.wordpress.com eileen.dittmar@capella.edu