Del.icio.us could be a really neat tool for us ICT teacher trainees to share web based resources, so I did a little screencast to show how I do it. Its much easier than sharing links on our Blackboard Site, Student Central. I have even pulled links from Student Central that Pete has posted and tagged them petebrown to save you a job.
In the latter part of the film I show how you can use RSS to keep upto date with someone’s Del.icio.us feeds. Judging on conversations with the rest of my group this might seem way over the top, but if you want to be a technology teacher you should really be up to speed on blogs and RSS by now, this technology has been around for five years or more.
We should really do a blogging and RSS session. Oh, and I will be trying to get this video up onto my Moodle site later on (tomorrow) I’m going to play with making a del.icio.us course.
I’m using Del.icio.us more and more now. Infact rather than writing short blog postings I find it easier to post in Del.icio.us, it allows you to write quite a long paragraph in the description field. Of course it doesn’t allow comments though.
PS this is the first video to be shown on richardradio.com – yey!
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PPS. I forgot to add that this idea was completely inspired by Jon Udell’s very similar del.icio.us: the screencast. You might find it better, its not related to education though.
>you should really be up to speed on blogs and RSS surely you mean content management systems and xml? professional language and all that
No I meant blogs and RSS. What want to emphasis is that as professionals & teachers of IT we should know about the significance of Blogging, including RSS. It’s the most significant technological shift in the last 5 years.
Why would you want to be more generic? Yes a blog could be described as a content managment system and RSS is made from XML, but its a bit like calling a poem just words.
A blog is a form of real self expression that is publised and shared with the world. This is much more use educationally than a paragraph written in an excersise book that only the teacher sees.