Edtags presentation at NECC 2008
Category:Schools & Education | Tags:web2.0, Kathy Schrock, web20, k12, education
A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment
Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I’d love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates.
The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides. Got any other ideas for subject guides? Please share them in the comments!
I’ve just been to the Unicom conference in London on Social Tools for Business Use, and found it really insightful to hear people’s views and experiences on where and how social tools are actually being adopted within organisations. Seems like we’re seeing more and more case studies being shared (here we heard from BT, CILIP and IBM amongst others). As the word is spread about the benefits of so called Enterprise 2.0 tools, hopefully the light bulb will go ‘ping’ in more people’s heads, and we’ll see more organisations taking the plunge - hurrah! Here are some bits and pieces that I found most interesting:
Simply a list of uses for social bookmarking in the workplace.
The CiteULike database is potentially useful for researchers in various fields. Physicists and computer scientists have expressed an interest in trying to analyse the structure of the data, and frequently ask for datasets to be made available.
Previously this was done on an ad-hoc basis, and it relied on us remembering to update the data file. Now, there is an automatic process which runs every n
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