SPARK Career Placement Success

with Web 2.0 Tools

Dr. Eileen Dittmar, Department Chair and Faculty, First Course Department

Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, USAeileen.dittmar@capella.edu

http://eileendittmar.wordpress.com/school2careers/http://bit.ly/13Ram6P

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• 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.

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• 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.

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LiveBindershttp://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.

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Binders for youhttp://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=269484

Dr. Dittmar's School2Careers Binder (31 Career Development & Planning Resources)

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

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

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http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=779595 Dr. Dittmar’s Softskills Resources

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http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=269550 Dr. Dittmar's Virtual Presenter Guide; tips for creating

powerful presentations.

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

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Spark Career PlacementWordpress 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.comTumblr https://www.tumblr.com

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Delicioushttp://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 Diigohttps://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

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Social Bookmarking

Stumbleupon.comhttp://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 15Top 15 social bookmark sites (Jan 2013) http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites

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Enhanced Virtual Places for Files and Collaboration Box.comhttp://www.box.comDescription: 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.comhttp://www.dropbox.comDescription: 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

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Enhanced Virtual Places for Files and Collaboration

ThinkFreehttp://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

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Sofiahttp://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.TEDhttp://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).

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Online Learning/flipped classroomKahn Academyhttps://www.khanacademy.org/Description: Khan Academy features some incredible videos by experts hoping to educate viewers about anything and everything they might find interesting.MOOChttp://bit.ly/QGTPyCDescription: 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

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Financial Tools

CalcMoolatorhttp://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!).  

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List of calculatorshttp://www.calcmoolator.com/calculators.php Minthttps://www.mint.com/Description: Record and analyze financial information for student projects. Over 5 million people use Mint. Has app for mobile devices.  

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VisualsSlideshare.nethttp://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. 

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 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 

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 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 teachinghttp://www.slideshare.net/jalinskens67/meaningful-feedback-in-the-online-learning-environment

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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.

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Spark Career Placement Prezi http://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. Prezi Learn http://prezi.com/learn/ Prezi’s manual: http://prezi.com/learn/manual/

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Virtual Meetings & CollaborationsGoogle 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-hertzhttp://www.edutopia.org/blog/google-hangouts-teacher-development-ben-johnsonhttp://www.edutopia.org/blog/google-hangouts-connecting-sharing-learning-andrew-marcinekSkypehttp://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. /

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Screencasting

Screenrhttp://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.

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Audio StuffMyBrainSharkwww.mybrainshark.comDescription: 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.

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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!

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