Resources & Tutorials

Common Craft Videos

Web Search Strategies in Plain English: A short video designed to help you get more out of your web searches.
Social Media in Plain English: An introduction to Social Media via a story about a small town with many flavors of ice cream.
Podcasting in Plain English: A short introduction to Podcasting and how it's different from broadcasting.
Twitter in Plain English: A short introduction to the micro-blogging service Twitter.
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English: I short introduction to the concept and features of online photo sharing web sites.
Blogs in Plain English: A short introduction to blogs - how they work and why they matter.
Social Bookmarking in Plain English: A short introduction to the concept of social bookmarking, using Delicious as the example.
Social Networking in Plain English: A short introduction to the concepts behind social networking websites.
Wikis in Plain English: A short introduction to wikis focused a group of people that plan a camping trip using a wiki.
RSS in Plain English: An introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites.
Google Docs
Google RSS Reader

Karl Fisch (Shift Happens Video Shown in Session)

The Fischbowl Blogspot
Shift Happens Wiki (contains video, files, presentation suggestions, conversation)

Educator Use of Social Networking Tools

Teachers and Principals Talk About Google Docs (video)
the edublog awards