Tips on using this site

The EnhanceTV Community was developed using Ning social media platform. Here are our tips to get you started:

Tip 1: Start a discussion forum:
The site will become more valuable and useful to educators as more forum posts are added. We encourage teachers and librarians to please find the time to contribute by starting a discussion about a TV program, uploading notes, as well as commenting on those of others.

Tip 2: Get forum updates
Keep track of all forum activity by subscribing to the RSS feed , or go to the specific discussion you are interested in and select the RSS feed at the bottom of that page.

Tip 3: Help build the Community
Invite others who use film/TV programs in class, or who's job it is to source AV material. The site has only just launched and being noticed by educators, so please bear with us in these early days.

Tip 4: Who are you?
Create your profile page, you can even modify it to your own style, and add your own widgets and rss feeds. If you already have a blog on another site, then you can add an RSS feed to iton your page. In our Introductions Forum - let us know who you are and where you are from, what subject area you teach, and what's the last program you used in class.

Tip 5: Select your Privacy level
You can select who sees your information on your profile, "my page", forums and blogs.

Tip 6: Submit a blog
There are two ways to submit a blog. You can create a blog in "my page" (which keeps track of all your blog posts), or on the general blog page (which features everyone's blogs). Here are some blog topic ideas. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed from the EnhanceTV Community so you can read the latest blog posts.

Tip 7: Tag and share relevant links
Want to share articles, sites or blogs you've found on using TV and film and the classroom? Please tag them with 'enhancetv', so that when you or other members of the EnhanceTV Community search using enhancetv as a keyword, you'll see a collection of links that we've all contributed towards. If you're not sure what deli.cio.us is or how to use it - check out these tips on using deli.cio.us from Sue Water's Mobile Technology for TAFE site.

Tip 8: Upload video
If your class has produced a short video - perhaps even won awards for it, and you'd like to show other educators, upload the video - Ning will convert it for the web.

Tip 9: Add relevant events
Do you know of any events for educators using TV and film in class? Add them here.

If you have any other tips you'd like to share, - please comment below.