As part of BaW10, we had a guided tour of TappedIn. It is a place where “K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather [here] to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another“.
In short, an online community dedicated to education. It has been around for quite a while (copyright 1995), so I think we could consider it a precursor of networking sites such as Ning. TappedIn has two main advantages:
1) It functions as a place to connect with other colleagues through joining the different groups and communities available. For example, I have joined:
ESL in Second Life Emerging Technology Technology in Education Teaching with the Web K-12
2) It allows anybody who signs up to have their own “office”, with the following features:
- A live chat (in order to use it your students need to have an account too)
- A welcome portal where visitors to the office can see information you make available.
- A place to upload files, such as activities, reading materials, etc.
- A links section, for you to select websites of interest to your students.
- A whiteboard where you can write down things while chatting. Your students can write on it too.
To learn more about it, here’s a video tutorial, courtesy of sbrunvan through YouTube:
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