I am now a convert to Delicious. I'm using it at home and at school. Now I need to get many more of my bookmarks onto Delicious and tagged. Unfortunately, that will take time---and thus will need to wait until summer or retirement.
I could create a social bookmarking site for my students to access when I want them to use certain sites for an assignment. Currently I have these on my school website, http://www.cf.k12.wi.us/library/librarylinks.htm but I can no longer upload the changes to the page myself. Thus Delicious would allow me to update the bookmarks much more quickly. I'll be using the United States links from the library page with my 5th grade class as they complete a research project on a state. This would meet the NETS-S
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
I do like using an RSS feed to keep up on some blogs. There were a few that I liked to check but found that I was not good about visiting regularly. Now I can just use RSS to keep up on all of them.
I'm using Google Reader. I tried Bloglines and did not like it. I had to visit the website and login each time, so I didn't feel like I had gained much. With the Google Reader I can click over to it from my iGoogle homepage. I can view it from any internet connection, and it's easy to remember the one login and password. I have found that one of my feeds is providing too many articles a day and too few are useful, so it will be deleted. I'm sure I can find other, better stuff. I need to start using the folder options on Google Reader as well since there are professional things as well as personal things that I'd like to follow.
If I were to use RSS with students, I think it would be to show them how to set up a feed to help with information for research projects. Many of our students already have a gmail account and use iGoogle, so the Google Reader would work well for them. I'd like to work with some of our high school students to set up RSS reads for their personal interests such as sports, teams, trucks, tractors etc. This would fall under the NETS-S 5-d, Digital Citizenship, demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
I'm using Google Reader. I tried Bloglines and did not like it. I had to visit the website and login each time, so I didn't feel like I had gained much. With the Google Reader I can click over to it from my iGoogle homepage. I can view it from any internet connection, and it's easy to remember the one login and password. I have found that one of my feeds is providing too many articles a day and too few are useful, so it will be deleted. I'm sure I can find other, better stuff. I need to start using the folder options on Google Reader as well since there are professional things as well as personal things that I'd like to follow.
If I were to use RSS with students, I think it would be to show them how to set up a feed to help with information for research projects. Many of our students already have a gmail account and use iGoogle, so the Google Reader would work well for them. I'd like to work with some of our high school students to set up RSS reads for their personal interests such as sports, teams, trucks, tractors etc. This would fall under the NETS-S 5-d, Digital Citizenship, demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wiki
I've created my first Wiki, a scary proposition. It's located at: http://grandma-library.pbwiki.com/ Right now it has a page for Photography help. I enjoy photography and am a 4-H adult volunteer leader in the Photography project. I have occasional photography project meetings with youth. I also am a registered photography judge for Wisconsin county fairs. I usually judge at 3-5 different fairs each year, both in junior (4-H) and open classes.
So, at the moment this wiki has an education component that does not necessarily pertain to my role in a school district, but is educational none-the-less. I hope that this page is also useful to students who are in our district's digital photography class, and that perhaps they may contribute to it as well.
So, at the moment this wiki has an education component that does not necessarily pertain to my role in a school district, but is educational none-the-less. I hope that this page is also useful to students who are in our district's digital photography class, and that perhaps they may contribute to it as well.
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