Hi everyone
Just finishing off my assignment for Diane ready to hand in tomorrow....... ONLY JOKING!!! If only I could even decide where to start....
Anyway, I have to admit that I don't find all this blogging business very comfortable. It's really hard to start writing, knowing that different people might read what I say and think it's rubbish! Sending an email seems much less public, somehow, and therefore less scary.
I know one thing - it's important to realise that you're never too old to learn how to do new things. My mother is 84 and has learnt to do all sorts of things using the internet - she doesn't like having to learn the new 'tricks', but if she wants to see photos of my brother's family in Saudi, she has to do it, if she wants to shop online and have access to goods and services she can't reach in person, she has to do it. She finds it uncomfortable at first, but she's glad when she's mastered it. If she can do it, so can I....
Hope you're having a good day. I'm going to visit my Indian friends for a meal tonight, and my stomach is already rumbling in happy anticipation of delicious food.
Julia
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Del.icio.us
As we saw in our last session, del.icio.us is an example of social bookmarking.
You have a link to the educ7006 del.icio.us page on the righthand menu.
You can share a del.icio.us page or set up your own page and link to this one as part of your ‘network’. For this first experience, I have suggested that we work collaboratively on the 7006 page, using a shared login.
username: educ7006
password: manchester1
Adding resources
In order to add resources to our del.icio.us page, the easiest way is to download a toolbar that that provides quick access buttons to enable you to link to del.icio.us and tag resources as you're browsing. Click here for an overview http://del.icio.us/about/ and then follow the links to How do I get started? and then to Register’. This involves downloading the toolbar - follow the instructions through. Once you download the toolbar, you will see that this sits at the top of your browser.
The principle is, when you arrive at a specific webpage that you want to save, click on the Tag button. You will see tagging helps you to describe and categorise the resource.
If you don't have the toolbar on the machine you're working at, you can choose Add Bookmark from the top righthand menu on the screen, paste the URL you're looking at and then proceed to tag.
As you add more and more resources, use new or existing tags. If you use tags that have already been used, these will appear as an autoentry that you can select from. You can also add notes to help us know what the resource refers to. Then click save. This will be added to the resource page and we can search related tags. You can see the tags I’ve used so far on the blog itself. experiment with a few additions form the resources you found - either on web 2.0, blogging, wikis etc or other useful sites that might relate to other topics we've looked at.
Share any thoughts as you proceed
Diane
You have a link to the educ7006 del.icio.us page on the righthand menu.
You can share a del.icio.us page or set up your own page and link to this one as part of your ‘network’. For this first experience, I have suggested that we work collaboratively on the 7006 page, using a shared login.
username: educ7006
password: manchester1
Adding resources
In order to add resources to our del.icio.us page, the easiest way is to download a toolbar that that provides quick access buttons to enable you to link to del.icio.us and tag resources as you're browsing. Click here for an overview http://del.icio.us/about/ and then follow the links to How do I get started? and then to Register’. This involves downloading the toolbar - follow the instructions through. Once you download the toolbar, you will see that this sits at the top of your browser.
The principle is, when you arrive at a specific webpage that you want to save, click on the Tag button. You will see tagging helps you to describe and categorise the resource.
If you don't have the toolbar on the machine you're working at, you can choose Add Bookmark from the top righthand menu on the screen, paste the URL you're looking at and then proceed to tag.
As you add more and more resources, use new or existing tags. If you use tags that have already been used, these will appear as an autoentry that you can select from. You can also add notes to help us know what the resource refers to. Then click save. This will be added to the resource page and we can search related tags. You can see the tags I’ve used so far on the blog itself. experiment with a few additions form the resources you found - either on web 2.0, blogging, wikis etc or other useful sites that might relate to other topics we've looked at.
Share any thoughts as you proceed
Diane
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Web 2.0
Hi all
You can see that this blog was used by my distance learning class that ran last Spring. Instead of starting off a new blog, I thought it might be useful for you to read some of this content.
You can peruse the tags on the labels menu. There are various links to resources that you might like to explore and comment on.
To start off though, take a look at the first clip on the Video bar. This links to an increasingly well known YouTube clip about Web 2.0. Take a look and post any comments in reply to this message.
You'll see that I've tagged this message as Web 2.0. Any further comments or questions on Web 2.0 should be posted here. Otherwise start off a new message, and tag this in ways you see fit:-)
Looking forward to your postings
Diane
You can see that this blog was used by my distance learning class that ran last Spring. Instead of starting off a new blog, I thought it might be useful for you to read some of this content.
You can peruse the tags on the labels menu. There are various links to resources that you might like to explore and comment on.
To start off though, take a look at the first clip on the Video bar. This links to an increasingly well known YouTube clip about Web 2.0. Take a look and post any comments in reply to this message.
You'll see that I've tagged this message as Web 2.0. Any further comments or questions on Web 2.0 should be posted here. Otherwise start off a new message, and tag this in ways you see fit:-)
Looking forward to your postings
Diane
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