Jan 27 2007
3 Conversations: #1 del.icio.us
Last week was a fantastic week at school for conversations about new online (web 2) technologies. Nothing massively ground-breaking just a good step in the right direction.
On Monday I met with Pete and Cathy who work in year 5 and we talked about a recent Literacy subject audit that we carried out, in line with the ICT self-review framework here in the UK, that showed we needed to give staff better access to online resources. We have many floating staff, who cover classes in other year groups and also absences. The ability to access all of your bookmarks from any computer is a clear advantage.
So I introduced del.icio.us to them and we are going to populate our school account with the bookmarks we have before we introduce it to the rest of the staff - having two colleagues already in the know is helpful to me, so that I can draw on their experiences and it is not just me preaching my insane ideas.
We have got a clear tagging system that we will introduce:
- Key Stage: Foundation, KS1 etc
- Year Group: Y1, Y2, Y3 etc
- Subject: Maths, literacy etc
- Topics: multiplication, division etc
- Star rating: ***** = 5 star rating ie excellent resource.
- And anything else that is a relevant tag.
I am looking forward to getting the school account up and running, introducing it to staff and populating it with lots of good resources.
Perhaps if other primary schools get their own del.icio.us accounts running then we can begin adding different schools to our network and sharing the online resources we use.
Using del.icio.us in Education - Take a look at this guide to del.icio.us from John Pederson that I have helped contribute to.
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This is a great idea. Something which I came across yesterday is this extensive set of Maths links tagged with the areas from the Numeracy Strategy, hope it’s of help!
Maths Links
If I had the time I’d love to do the same for Secondary resources. Internally at our school I have used a Tiddly Wiki to tag and link to resources stored on the school network, this has been quite successful.
I think this is exactly how the founders of del.icio.us would have liked this tool to be used.
My own del.icio.us links are a bit of a mess, but here are a coupleo f really good ones:
del.icio.us/loirston
del.icio.us/forehill
Arranged in 5-14 (Scotland) fashion.
Brilliant! I’m going to start up a school account for my school as well. This just never even occurred to me! We’ll change all of the home pages to our school’s links. This is going to make things so much easier! Yay! Thanks so much for sharing!
Great idea - something I’ll try and set up in my school as well. I’ve also got a del.ici.ous page for Primary Teacher UK which has all the links I’ve mentioned grouped by topic etc.
I’ll add your school into the group.
http://del.icio.us/primaryteacheruk/
Andrew
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions of useful links. I will do a follow up post with them all a little later if that is OK with you all.
Tom
So, I’m trying to set up my school’s page and I’ve got a question… I’ve been tagging everything by grade level and subject, but you can only look things up by one or the other. So my first graders that are trying to access the reading sites can look up first grade but end up seeing all of the subjects. Or they can look up reading and end up seeing all of the grades. Is there a way to look up two tags at the same time?
Anna, if you enter two words in the search box the default action is to bring up all the links that include BOTH tags. More details here:
http://del.icio.us/help/search
Dan
Thanks Dan for the help