Gifted Online, A Service of The Gifted Education Centre .::. Links for giftEDnz Conference 2012

This page has been created to accompany a workshop at
the giftEDnz Conference, 2012

Networking with the Online Gifted Community

A Workshop with Mary St George, from Gifted Online, a service of The Gifted Education Centre.

Here are the links you can use during and after the workshop session. You are very welcome to share them with colleagues and friends who were unable to attend, or to contact me with questions later. I'll challenge you to use Twitter or Facebook to do that, but if those are what you're having problems with, email mail4mary@xtra.co.nz.

First we will be using Twitter to join #gtchat.

http://twitter.com for Twitter.
http://txgifted.org/gtchat for current #gtchat information.
Please follow:
https://twitter.com/#!/gtchatmod
https://twitter.com/#!/MaryStGeorge
https://twitter.com/#!/learner001
https://twitter.com/#!/Learner002
https://twitter.com/#!/Learner003
As you create your own Twitter accounts, please share your usernames so that we can all follow you.
http://tweetchat.com/ to use TweetChat, and at http://tweetchat.com/room/gtchat the hashtag has been entered for you.
We will discuss, but not use, TweetDeck, which requires a download. See http://www.tweetdeck.com/. The version you will be shown is Tweetdeck Chrome.
I suggest following hashtags before people while you are new at using Twitter.
#giftednz12
#gtchat, #gtvoice, #gtie, #nagc, #2ekids, and sometimes #gifted
#edchat, #spedchat, #cpchat, #duedchat, #engchat, #mathchat, #elemchat, #pbl
#wgt13
http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html
http://edudemic.com/2011/10/twitter-hashtag-dictionary/

Then we will look at Facebook to join Mary's Gifted Contacts and Mary's Gifted Chat. This is for practice at joining and using a group with or without a chat, rather than total self-promotion!

http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/gifted.contacts/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/gifted.chat/
A list of other gifted groups and pages is at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=265281473523447.

We will discuss, but not use, a range of other social media where there is something related to giftedness happening. The number of these we cover will depend on needs and time. They may include the following:

Skype, which requires a download.

http://www.skype.com

http://ultranet.giftededucation.org.nz/WebSpace/446/

http://gifted.tki.org.nz/Mailing-List

http://gifted.tki.org.nz/sympa/archive/gifted

http://gifted.tki.org.nz/Webinars

NZAGC Forum
http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/forum/

Blogs
http://ultranet.giftededucation.org.nz/WebSpace/443/

Linked In (this is the one where Mary had an accident with the invite friends function, be careful).
http://www.linkedin.com/home
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2362557
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1961537
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3716241
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Gifted-Talented-Network-109801?gid=109801
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Global-Group-Advancement-Twice-Exceptional-4324347

Virtual Learning Network
http://www.vln.school.nz/
http://www.vln.school.nz/pg/groups/55901/giftednz/

Google+
https://plus.google.com/

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1680413@N20/pool/
We could explore CC Licensing or sharing CC Licensed work via Pinterest, a visual bookmark sharing system.

Second Life, which requires a download.
http://secondlife.com/
http://www.giftedresources.org/jo/blog/?p=2254

Powerpoint presentation used in the session.
MaryStGeorgeGiftEDnz2012NoPasswordVersion.ppt