Classroom Broadcasting

All classrooms will benefit from having dedicated access accounts to a wide variety of social media. Not only does this create the ability to collaborate, but it connects your classroom, and your students' accomplishments, to parents and community.

Create a Classroom Google Account

creating

Gmail Email

Calendar sharable calendar service with auto alerting

Blogger blogging platform which works on all platforms including mobile

Odiogo (a non-Google service) allows your blog to talk for free

Google Books sharable library access to billions of books

YouTube Video Sharing

Documents equivalents to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, all open and usable by multiple users in real time

Mike Thornton's Third Grade Simple Machines Google Doc

Google Sites simplified Wiki (this is one)

Picasa photo sharing

Google+ Hangout Access Live Video Connection

Skype free live global video calling

Classroom Twitter Account

crowdsource questions, explain what you are doing, offer links and news (see also Twitpic)

Spacefish and the Primary Crowdsource

ds106 Radio Digital Storytelling

sign up

Online Social Radio

UStream Live Internet Television from anywhere and almost any linked device

sign up

Evernote Social Bookmarking

Diigo Social Bookmarking

Flickr Photo Sharing

Vimeo Video Sharing

No sign up needed to use TodaysMeet, just open it up, name your "room," and pass that web address (http://todaysmeet.com/yourroomname) out to those you want to participate