Periodic Fable

Monday, 3 November 2008

Top 10 etools for learning professionals

My Top 10 Tools list is now online at Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/helenwhitehead.html

It's fascinating reading the 'final' compiled version of the top 100 tools chosen by 223 learning professionals. Delicious social bookmarking comes top by a long way. It's somewhat encouraging that several of mine are also chosen by others, but also that I have one or two that I've discovered for myself...
Labels: e-learning tools, learning technologies, social bookmarking, tools

posted by Helen Whitehead 10:05 AM

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Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Using del.icio.us with students in a course

Social bookmarking can be used in a variety of ways to support students taking a course. Here are some helpful links on how to use del.icio.us in education;

Using del.icio.us As a Class or Department Resource
http://www.teachbabel.com/...del-icio-us-bookmarking.html

Here's how one tutor used del.icio.us for a course on Computers and Writing course in 2005: http://wrecking.org/...delicious-and-teaching/

And another, more recent: http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/...delicious.../

Homework-casting using del.icio.us http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/...homework-...-delicious/

Why save web sites to your computer where they can not be accessed by your students? Using a social bookmarking site such as del.icio.us teachers can bookmark web pages to be used in the classroom or for student to reference at home for homework. A screencast by Jeff Utecht about using del.icio.us. http://k12online...delicious.html
Labels: del.icio.us, education, elearning, social bookmarking

posted by Helen Whitehead 5:27 PM

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