What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking allows users to share links to different articles, blogs, music, reviews and websites.
How could it be used in this subject?
In this subject, social bookmarking could be used to save and share important links related to subjects studies, so that students could immediately access links that fall under certain categories when they need to access information. Students could also recommend links to other students by posting notes that comment on relevance and reliability.
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English
The setting up of my Netvibes account
Refer back to my older post (28 March 2008):
http://tamaraauer.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/rss-and-aggregation/
RSS
My definition of RSS –
RSS is a way of receiving new and efficient information quickly and efficiently, it takes updated information from a number of websites and consolidates this information into a list of short summary headings.
Another definition of RSS - http://www.elearnmag.org/elearn.xml
“RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing content on the Web. Using an RSS reader, you can view receive regular feeds as new content is posted to eLearn magazine. A number of RSS readers are widely available as downloads on the Web, many for free. Most require that you cut and paste the url below into the reader”.
How can RSS be used in this subject?
It possible for teachers and students in this subject to subscribe to blog post updates. This will provide students access to other students’ blogs to see their latest blog posts and contribute to comments. For teachers, it can act as a tool to assist in keeping tabs on when students have posted blog entries.
