training

__**Training / Developing your Personal Learning Network (or PLN)**__

1. Sign into the [|Clovis Moodle] with your log in information. (Email or call Sally Palermo if any problems - sallypalermo [at] cusd.com - 559-327-9636. 2. Create a **gmail account**: [|gmail.google.com]. 3. Set up an **iGoogle accoun**t: http://www.google.com/ig 4. Create a “**Google alert**” on a topic of interest - http://www.google.com/alerts 5. Create a “**Google Reader**” account ([|http://reader.google.com]). Suggested blogs to add (use Google to find and add these blogs to your blog reader): 6. Write a comment on the [|Clovis Online School blog]. 7. Join the **Clovis Online School wiki** – |http://clovisonlineschool.wikispaces.com . Click on “join” and register to be approved for membership. 8. Join **Curriki** [|www.curriki.com] and join the group called “online school.” 9. Join [|Diigo] and then join the group: Clovis Online School. 10. Join [|Facebook].
 * __TO DO FIRST__** - __**The TOP 10**__
 * · Add the Clovis Online School Blog. To do this: Click on “add stuff”. Click on “add feed” on left side, half way down page. Paste in the Clovis Online School blog web address ([|http://clovisonlineschool.wordpress.com]) – this will be how updated info about the Clovis online school will be shared. Arrange this on your iGoogle Page.
 * · Add other “gadgets”. Add your gmail account if you’d like. Other gadgets you may like: weather, eschool news, http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html.
 * · Click on “themes” and you can “customize” your iGoogle page.
 * · Clovis Online School
 * Online Learning Update - http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html
 * · San Joaquin Valleyfornia (news items about Central valley)
 * · Blue Skunk Blog
 * · Ypulse
 * · California Dreamin blog
 * · Thinking Stick blog
 * · Web Logged blog
 * · 2 cents worth by David Warlick
 * · The Fisch bowl
 * · Apophenia

> Suggested: 7. Create an account on [|Teacher Tube] and find some good videos 8. Create an account on [|YouTube] at home and find some good videos. Suggest subscribing to: AP Gov 4 Ever: http://www.youtube.com/user/apg4evr
 * __RECOMMENDED TO EXPLORE/Join__**
 * 1) Join Twitter – [|www.twitter.com]
 * Twitter Tutorial - http://flatworldschools.blogspot.com/2008/12/twitter-tutorial.html
 * 1) Join Ning ([|www.ning.com]) – e-learning in California (http://elsighome.ning.com/), school20.ning.com and http://www.classroom20.com/.
 * 2) Create your own blog – [|www.wordpress.com]
 * 3) (cost) Join NACOL ([|www.nacol.org]) – professional K-12 online organization
 * 4) Join Second Life and create an avatar and explore – [|www.secondlife.com] . Join the ISTE group.
 * 5) Download iTunes on your computer at home. Then subscribe to some podcasts (they are all free). (Click Podcasts, iTunesU, K-12 OR Podcasts, schools and education).
 * · Edutopia / Technology integration
 * · EdTechTalk.com (or see EdTechTalk.com)