Thing #13 Delicious Bookmarks, etc.

I already had a Delicious account (hadn't been using it, though). I didn't really know enough about it to make it useful until today. Here are a few things I've done in the last hour:

• Took virtual tours of the Coliseum, Great Wall of China, and 5 more wonders (these were linked from the popular list in Delicious)
• Watched a video of a Berkely professor who opened a hat box and held a human brain in her hand
• Re-discovered how to log in to my Delicious acct.
• Added a feed to the top 10 most popular sites in education from Delicious
• Followed some other links about teaching social networking
• Looked at tag clouds to see current popular tags

Yet another way to keep up with topics that I am currently researching. I don't think there is any way to stay up with what I've set up lately (feeds, bookmarks, etc.) but over time I will see what works best for me and use it to make me a better technology media specialist.

I have not yet figured out how to share my Delicious bookmarks. I'll have to go back and figure that out and pick out a few of my favorite tags to share. OK--I'm back now. Here is a link to an eHow site that explains how to share D. bookmarks:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2019685_sharing-bookmarks-delicious.html

Thing #8 RSS feeds and readers

I had subscribed to an RSS feed before but had kind of forgotten about it.
So I started at the beginning. I created a Google Reader and now have 5 RSS feeds. One thing I am researching is interactive lessons and activities for our teachers who have interactive whiteboards. The first thing I discovered was that eInstruction is starting a new teacher community for our Interwrite boards and Workspace software on June 28th. I might not have known about that as quickly without the RSS feed. I also joined 4 library blogs. This will help keep me posted on several topics at one location. I can see this being extremely useful to all teachers trying to keep up with a topic. This is a concept that we definitely need to show our teachers in staff development in the fall. I bookmarked my Google Reader site to make it easy to get to because my brain is overwhelmed right now with all of the new stuff I'm trying to do!