Welcome, I'm Steve Dickie and I teach at Divine Child High School. I've created this page to serve as an interactive handout for any workshops I lead or presentations I give (great idea from David Warlick).

For more information on how I use technology in my classroom check out my blog: Teaching With Technology which is updated much more often than this page.

MACUL 2008 - Social Networking In Education

Outline:

1. My Presentation: When I sat down to get my presentation together I'd planned on doing a powerpoint. I found it was very difficult for me to think linearly about Social Networking and how it can be used in education. Consequently I used CMap, a free concept mapping program, to put it together. You really should check out their site, it's awesome.
2. Links from my presentation (or those that inspired it):
1. www.ning.com - Create your own social networking site
   
2. Classroom2.0 - A social network of educators interested in Web 2.0
   
3. education.ning.com - A social network of educators who use Ning for their classrooms, school administration, conferences, or professional development.
   
4. Minds on Fire from Educause
   
3. I also created some relatively boring videos to teach you (and anyone else you share them with) how to use Ning.
   
4. Where can you find me:
1. falconphysics.blogspot.com: My Blog focused on teaching with technology
2. falconphysics.blip.tv: This is where I put videos on the net.
3. Instructables: Step by step directions to a lot of what I do. (no ning stuff yet, but it's coming)
4. Twitter: I just joined Twitter after having seen Steve Dembo.
5. I promised to share a link to a description of RSS. Here's a link to Will Richardson's guide to RSS.
   

Previous Presentations:

• MACUL 2007 Hands-On Workshop - Probeware on almost No Budget
  
• December 2006 COATT Workshop
  
• Metro-Detroit Science Teachers Association 2006 Meeting
  
• Michigan Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers Fall 2006
  
• July 2006 COATT Workshop