RSS! Good fun!

Module 8.
RSS! I had noticed this icon but with so many new visuals to negotiate, I had ignored it for the present. I can see this would be a great personal tool for keeping up to date with favourite sites and to view my colleagues' progress through the course. I have perused some sites with the view to adding them, but I think I will wait and further my research as I can see one might need to be very selective with subscriptions. When I do begin to subscribe, used wisely, I can see it will be a huge time saver in keeping up to date.


For students, I think this would save class research time, would be a great tool for group work and, for our special students, an update from their favourite podcasts for example, auditory stories might be a highlight.


PS.
I have now subscribed and have also deleted! At his point I have saved one subscription to an education site, and have found the huge amount of information is very broad. I will need to learn to refine this tool. Good fun!

Module 7. Delicious!!

Module 7.
. Delicious is a great resource. One can build quite a library of useful websites, and have access to them on any computer at any time. This is a great way of sharing sites with friends and colleagues as well, saves e-mailing them or copying them down and getting them wrong, which I've done!

. In addition, having access to other people's endless searching is so generous and what a time saver. I can see this as a great resource for saving students' class time, searching for relevant information. I'm not sure how many sites would need to be offered for a whole class to search within the same class time.

. Expanding this idea a little, for students with limited research skills and/or learning disabilities, a limited number of sites, or sites specially chosen, with the students' abilities in mind, is a possible way to accommodate our special students.