Interesting learning with the RSS Feeds! I started out small with 5 feeds, worried about the amount of content. Seeing so many good choices by class members, I am now "cautiously" up to 13, along with following all the blogs from our class. I have already removed a number of feeds that did not really pan out. There are still SO many things that look interesting to me.
I think I have learned that wikis are not the best sources for RSS Feeds, that they are better bookmarked. I ended up with a couple of complete series of step by step editing changes while wikis were updated :)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Social Networking
Looking to network in the following places:
delicious: sharonlavallee1
Shelfari: mrsLavallee
twitter: sharonjlavallee
blog: http://edutechplayandlearn.blogspot.com/
wiki: http://fclearningcommons.wikispaces.com/
delicious: sharonlavallee1
Shelfari: mrsLavallee
twitter: sharonjlavallee
blog: http://edutechplayandlearn.blogspot.com/
wiki: http://fclearningcommons.wikispaces.com/
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Shelfari
Okay, right back to my favorite place - my books. After looking at examples on LibraryThing (which I had heard about more and fully expected to use) and Shelfari, I went for the visually appealing Shelfari. I can picture this being popular with my elementary students. After intending to enter 5 books for this portion of the exploration, here I am 25 books later... I even added a widget to my blog to get to my Shelfari book shelf.
Delicious
My first foray into the social bookmarking world. I decided to start out with delicious since it was more basic. Social bookmarking is something I'm really going to have to experience in action to appreciate the benefits. I started out entering a few bookmarks. I'll add more later.
Believe it or not, this was also my first experience tagging information!
Believe it or not, this was also my first experience tagging information!
Google Reader
I am set up in Google Reader. It did not go as smoothly as I planned. I looked into what I could find from MSLA, SEMLS and SAILS, three organizations currently overflowing my email at school, and I couldn't find anything with an RSS feed!?
Then I tried 2 websites that turned out to be paid subscription: Classroom 2.0 and Choice Literacy.
I tried Technorati. I finally set up feeds from ReadWriteThink for strategy guides, NCTE Inbox ideas, Franki Sibberson's (my favorite elementary school librarian) A Year of Reading, Kathy Schrock's Kaffeelatsch, the 1st runner up for the 2009 Edublog award, and one blog that I am worried about since I noticed it has 109 posts/week: ReadWriteWeb. I'll try it out and see.
Then I tried 2 websites that turned out to be paid subscription: Classroom 2.0 and Choice Literacy.
I tried Technorati. I finally set up feeds from ReadWriteThink for strategy guides, NCTE Inbox ideas, Franki Sibberson's (my favorite elementary school librarian) A Year of Reading, Kathy Schrock's Kaffeelatsch, the 1st runner up for the 2009 Edublog award, and one blog that I am worried about since I noticed it has 109 posts/week: ReadWriteWeb. I'll try it out and see.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
First Wiki
I decided to move forward from the static school library website I had (which was indeed out of date in a few places) toward a school learning commons wiki. I'm still having navigation and formatting issues, but it's a start. Time to get back to exploring what is out there, and the collaborative aspects. Already, however, developing the fcLearningCommons wiki is a big plus from the proprietary school website software which was very difficult and time-consuming to use.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Probation!
I am not sure what the status was when Will Richardson advised visiting the Wikipedia global warming entry Discussion tab (in Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms) to see what sort of negotiation goes on, but the article has been placed "on probation"! See global warming discussion for a good example of disruptive editing and how it is handled.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wiki exploration
Learning about wikis. TeachersFirst has great information for teachers just embarking on a wiki project, Twiki Issues. Included is a downloadable copy of a Wiki Warranty for parental consent. Note TeachersFirst must be given credit if used.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Almost first tweet
A few months ago I had an brief introduction to Twitter in a professional development program. I created an account, but then unfortunately did not keep up with it. I was wondering how to find everyone. I may have found Elizabeth. My name was already taken in Twitter, so I added my middle initial. If you'd like to tweet me, search for sharonjlavallee.
First Blog
The start of something great, I can feel it. This is my first post on my first published blog. Being such a newbie, I started out reading other blogs. Since I am interested in the use of technology in education and school libraries, I started with a list of "Good Educator's Blogs" from Will Richardson's book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Looking for guidance on good practices and getting started myself, I learned my first lesson: if you are going to write about something, you need to link to it. I learned how to do this in ten-habits-of-bloggers-that-win.
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