Rss, Tagging, And Social Bookmarking

Session 2:

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to

Create Teacher Web Pages

Web Syndication

Really Simple Syndication

Really Serious Stress Relief

Allows you to easily access frequently

updated Internet content

You “subscribe” and updated content is

delivered to your computer

CommonCraft

Many quick video how-to’s

RSS in Plain English

Teacher:

Posts lecture on site

Publishes lecture to Web Server

Newsfeed file

XML file

RSS file

Catalog of all information published

Student

Installs a “news reader” or “news aggregator”

One function: check web server and downloads an

identified RSS newsfeed on a regular basis

Effectively and continually asks the server, “Is

there new content?”

Similar to e-mail – “Is there new e-mail?”

Server reports new content – aggregator

dutifully downloads it

Google Reader

Bloglines

Plurk Question:

n2teaching will rebuild my blog roll. I think

I am over the incident. If you would like to

send me your blog/web url, I would

appreciate it very much.

Link to responses

Describe an item so that it can be found

again by browsing or searching

Conveys meaning about the content

Folksonomies

Groups of tags

K12 Online Conference

Chris Betcher – Sydney, Australia

“I Like Delicious Things”

When students tag –

They are forced to think about themes and the

big idea - metacognition

There becomes value to their writing – global

audience

Displays shared lists of user-created

Internet bookmarks

Allows you to:

Organize

Rank

Display for others to see and use

Content classified by tags

Allow searches for bookmarks using tags

People can connect

Find similar interests

Subscribe to other’s bookmarks

Allow access wherever you are – with

Internet connection

CommonCraft

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

del.icio.us

Diigo