How cool. I love Delicious. It is all about keeping my inner librarian happy. I love how easy it is to tag and manage my favourite websites! I also love how my favourites will no longer be attached to just one computer. I have just updated to a new laptop, and all my favourite websites are still sitting on my old computer waiting for me to transfer them over. I can now put them all on Delicious, and I will do the same for my Favourites on my school computer!
By the way, the first website added to my Delicious account was the teachertube video that was suggested to us. I'm going to show it at a staff meeting and try and get others hooked on Delicious, so we can all share the fabulous sites that are relevant to what we are teaching.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
#15 RSS
RSS is great! It will be one of the things I check daily. Some of the exercises in this course have been great to learn about and very interesting but I won't use them often. I think this one I will.
For starters I have added Reader to my iGoogle home page. I don't have much at the moment - just a couple of blogs I follow, plus a Top Headlines news feed. This one will be especially interesting come July when I move from Australia. I will still know what is happening back home!
I also agree with other bloggers that this could be very valuable when doing units of work with kids. Imagine them getting updates so quickly and easily, without wasting valuable lesson time!
For starters I have added Reader to my iGoogle home page. I don't have much at the moment - just a couple of blogs I follow, plus a Top Headlines news feed. This one will be especially interesting come July when I move from Australia. I will still know what is happening back home!
I also agree with other bloggers that this could be very valuable when doing units of work with kids. Imagine them getting updates so quickly and easily, without wasting valuable lesson time!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
#14 Facebook
Here I was looking forward to #14 - as a Facebook user already, I thought I could tick this one off the list, do a 1 minute blog, and move on to the next activity.
Wrong. Thanks to the Ning and Twitter links, I've just spent ages playing and exploring.
My Facebook account has no links to any professional organisations. I use it purely for social purposes. I will not be joining the Department of Education's facebook page, or any other page like it... I can't see the point. I am not curious as to what they are there for, I will just ignore them. Keep out of my social life!
Ning, on the other hand, looks excellent for joining groups that might be professionally beneficial. I've just been playing around and found a couple of groups for teacher librarians that look quite interesting. And I can see Ning can be used for fun too - some good quilting groups caught my eye.
And Twitter is something that I've been meaning to check out for ages. I'm not a twitterer (or is it tweeter??) but hearing so much about it has made me curious. So I've just been looking up some things, and finding out how twitter works. I don't think I'll join up yet, but I'm sure it won't be too far in the future when I join the twitter bandwagon.
Wrong. Thanks to the Ning and Twitter links, I've just spent ages playing and exploring.
My Facebook account has no links to any professional organisations. I use it purely for social purposes. I will not be joining the Department of Education's facebook page, or any other page like it... I can't see the point. I am not curious as to what they are there for, I will just ignore them. Keep out of my social life!
Ning, on the other hand, looks excellent for joining groups that might be professionally beneficial. I've just been playing around and found a couple of groups for teacher librarians that look quite interesting. And I can see Ning can be used for fun too - some good quilting groups caught my eye.
And Twitter is something that I've been meaning to check out for ages. I'm not a twitterer (or is it tweeter??) but hearing so much about it has made me curious. So I've just been looking up some things, and finding out how twitter works. I don't think I'll join up yet, but I'm sure it won't be too far in the future when I join the twitter bandwagon.
#13 MySpace
How did I start off looking at Public Library pages, finding out how to use MySpace professionally, and end up at Tom Hank's page? Easy - just like everything else so far in this Web 2.0 course, it is very easy to get distracted and go from link to link for hours.
This is the first time I've checked out MySpace. I had kind of guessed what it was like, and I wasn't far off the mark. Really interesting to check out people's pages, and interesting to see what the public libraries have created.
Personally I don't think I would create a MySpace page. I see my friends, email people, and have Facebook (and hopefully soon have a public Flickr "diary") . That, for the moment, is enough of communicating and sharing. I would rather allocate my spare time to other things, rather than spend more time on the computer.
Professionally, I am really impressed at what some of the public libraries have done. For a public library I think it is a fantastic tool to reach out to young people, and teach them about today's libraries.
For a primary school, I think I would give it a miss. Many primary schools these days have their own student network or learning platform that students can access, and many school libraries have their own space within these platforms. I believe that having too many access points for basically the same thing can lessen the impact. I would rather have one quality access point that my kids can really get familiar with, and get my messages through that way.
Our learning platform is currently being recreated, but I am really keen to get the library page set up, and I imagine there will be many similar features to MySpace.
This is the first time I've checked out MySpace. I had kind of guessed what it was like, and I wasn't far off the mark. Really interesting to check out people's pages, and interesting to see what the public libraries have created.
Personally I don't think I would create a MySpace page. I see my friends, email people, and have Facebook (and hopefully soon have a public Flickr "diary") . That, for the moment, is enough of communicating and sharing. I would rather allocate my spare time to other things, rather than spend more time on the computer.
Professionally, I am really impressed at what some of the public libraries have done. For a public library I think it is a fantastic tool to reach out to young people, and teach them about today's libraries.
For a primary school, I think I would give it a miss. Many primary schools these days have their own student network or learning platform that students can access, and many school libraries have their own space within these platforms. I believe that having too many access points for basically the same thing can lessen the impact. I would rather have one quality access point that my kids can really get familiar with, and get my messages through that way.
Our learning platform is currently being recreated, but I am really keen to get the library page set up, and I imagine there will be many similar features to MySpace.
Blogging my own Flickr photo
#12 Flickr
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Originally uploaded by HMStewartJr
Flickr is awesome! So many photos to look at it's almost intimidating. I have been really looking forward to finding out about Flickr, as I had an idea of using it as a bit of a diary when I start my job in Hong Kong. I had heard of a challenge where you post a Flickr photo every day of the year.
After playing with Flickr all morning, I'm not convinced I will still do that. There are such awesome photos from obviously very talented photographers, it seems to me more like an art gallery than a normal person's photo album.
I'll think about it. Meanwhile, I now have a flickr account, and I know how to blog other people's photos, and next I'm going to try uploading my own photos. Gosh I feel clever!!
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