My+Digital+Footprint

It is important that we prepare our students to be strong Digital Citizens, so I wanted to highlight my own digital footprint and how I participate in the strong educator communities that connect through the Internet. //(I was inspired to create this page after connecting with Doug Pete and visiting his blog and [|George Curous] and visiting his [|blog].)//

My Blog Where in the World is Mrs. Fucoloro? - began as a travel blog for my trip to Europe. It has evolved and has become a goal of mine is to contribute to this blog on a more regular basis. Unfortunately, my doctoral work prevents me from contributing to this blog as often as I would like. (I also have a dissertation blog, but it is not public at this time.) []

My Wiki Wikispaces is the home of my 6th Grade Social Studies Wiki and my Instructional Technology Wiki. Wikis are simple web pages that groups, students, friends, and families can edit together. They are great for collaboration and to share information quickly and easily.

My Twitter Twitter – an extremely useful social media tool connecting educators around the world. Twitter has been the best professional development tool that I have ever been associated with and my Professional Learning Network (PLN) is full of educators who are passionate about bettering the learning of their students. ** It’s a communication tool that you update 140 characters at a time. Don’t sell it short and develop a network of followers or people to follow or follow #edchat on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 CST. ** []

My Social Bookmarking Sites Diigo – A social bookmarking tool helps me share web resources with my students, peers, PLN or anyone who is interested in education. The power of Diigo is that I can connect to my bookmarks on any computer anywhere, anytime. http://www.diigo.com/user/debbiefuco

Delicious is another social bookmarking tool that I use. There is a rumor that Delicious is being discontinued by Yahoo!, so for the time being I am using Diigo and Delicious simultaneously. I cannot decide which one I like better. When I bookmark Diigo, I have it sent to Delicious. http://www.delicious.com/dfucoloro

My Facebook Facebook – Although this is more for my own personal connections, I believe that knowing and understanding Facebook is an important practice for educators who want to ensure that they understand the world that our students are growing up in. It is important that we understand the tools our students are using to connect to each other and friends to help them to be strong digital citizens.

St. Clement School Website – This updated website was designed and administered by me and rolled-out January 2011 as way of connecting with parents in our school and communicating events at our school, while also giving the opportunity to learn about our school and staff. This is considered a Web 1.0 technology as it can only communicate in one direction.

Flickr – A social media site where I have the opportunity to store and share images. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then Flickr is definitely priceless. http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbiefuco/

Classroom 2.0 - Ning is similar to Facebook, where we can create our own communities. I am a member of a few Ning groups but just wanted to highlight this powerful social network. Classroom 2.0 is a //'social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education//.'

I have moved some of the workshops that I do to this Wiki. I encourage you to join the Wiki and edit the pages with your own ideas about how to make the workshop or PD resources better. [|http://dougpete.pbwiki.com] RSS is nice; but to have your own page of the best of the best is pretty nice too. My Alltop Page is one of the default pages in my browser that gives me hand curated resources. [] Posterous is not quite blog; not quite Twitter; but it’s a fabulous way to easily collect and embed resources and send updates by email. []
 * My Professional Development Wiki**
 * My Alltop Page**
 * My Posterous Blog**

I’m a real fan of the Webquest as a structured way for students and teachers to use the Internet in the classroom. As I find Webquests, they are categorized by subject area or age group and put in this searchable database. [] Once a month, I created and posted this 10-12 page newsletter to provide some inspiration for the use of computers and technology in the classroom. [] The Twitter Times I believe that you need to carve out your own identify on the internet. This site is mine and I share it with my kids who may share my passion some day. [|http://www.dougpeterson.ca]
 * Webquest Locator**
 * Monthly Newsletter**
 * Daily Newsletter**
 * Actually, no pixels were created by me. However, paper.li does a cool job of putting together a daily resource for me. **
 * [|Doug Peterson Daily][|Ontario Educators Daily] **
 * Another news resource based upon activity around my Twitter account. It’s a great way to catch up on what’s going on and what I may have missed.**
 * @http://tweetedtimes.com/**