Plurk for Feb. 9th Professional Training

On Feb. 9th I will he hosting a number of 30 minute break out sessions. The training sessions are designed as hands on. To speed up the process I’m placing the information teachers need right here in this blog. This will also serve as a place teachers can return to review if they so choose

Plurk … If you like to learn more about Plurk you can check out this video off youtube.

Step 1 .. Create an account with Plurk http://www.plurk.com  

         

Step 2 … Edit Profile by clicking on “Edit” beside “My Profile”

Step 3 … Start Plurking

Step 4 … If you like to find others out there. Click on someone whose already been plurking. Then click on “Show all friends”. With the list that shows you can search other profiles. If you find someone you like to plurk with while on their profile click “Add NAME as Friend”.

Fans are people who can see your plurk but can not respond.

Block .. keeps person from seeing or commenting on your plurk. 

Ten Ways to improve your Karma
 

Adding a different background to your Plurk. There are several sites heres just one http://plurklayouts.com/

I asked other Plurkers how they organize the large number of resources that are shared on Plurk. Below are their responses. 

I will tell you my way is to create folders in my Bookmarks. Then I add them as they pop up. Read them when I have time. Here are others:

stacy 2/2009says I open a word file and put things there I want to explore next. If it’s something for school, I open an e-mail and put the links there and

stacy 2/2009says mail it to myself at school.

Alicasays diigo

sciproAnnettesays I click on the plurk page at the bottom of the comments section here and then tag it in delicious and explore it later.

dmantz7says I save the Plurk conversation to my Diigo and share with Plurking Educators group

Rough Video of the training offer.