Fav.or.it

Like lots of people I tend to get a bit behind on looking at Google Reader and keeping track of all the blogs I subscribe to. Today, however, I noticed one of the blogs mentioned a new RSS reader that was going to be available soon, called fav.or.it. I haven't had a chance to really have a good look at it yet but it looks like it will have some interesting features...

"fav.or.it is our answer to the current separation of feed reading and commenting. We have built a web interface that lets you read all your favorite content and at the same time take part in an interactive community." (click here to see more)

Yum!

I've been using del.icio.us for a while and have found it to be quite useful. I must admit, however, that so far I've set it up and only added a few different things to it that are of interest to me. I know it's easy to just 'tag' different websites as you're looking at them and save them to del.icio.us but... most of the time I forget to do it! This means if I want to go back to that page later I need to go searching for it again...
Like lots of Learning 2.0 tools, I can easily see the benefit of using this for teaching - huge potential! But for now I guess I'll just keep adding tags slowley as they become useful to me.

Rolling around...

Just had a quick look at Rollyo and wish I'd had access to this a few years ago while teaching Studies of Religion! For me, that was the most obvious use this tool would have - senior kids doing research etc - it would make it so much easier (for me and them!). There was always the problem of students accessing information from sites that weren't very reliable. The students do need to learn to recognise the difference between reliable and unreliable sources on the net, however I think there would be times when it would be useful to 'restrict' their searching rather than have them search for something very general using Google, for example, and have it return thousands of results that may or may not be from sites that are useful. It would save lots of time!

There's probably lots of other things I could use it for too - I think it's good to be aware of these tools for future reference - Ali might like to do a search of Wiggles colouring-in pages on some of her favorite sites! :-)

I quickly put together a search roll on Christian beliefs that might be something Studies of Religion kids would use (but I'm not sure if that link is going to work). It's pretty basic and something I'd probably have to do a bit more work on and add more to but... it's a start, I guess.

Dance!

I had a look at some of the image generators (actually, I managed to waste heaps of time looking at them! There are so many...) and found one that I thought was rather neat and something I know some senior kids I use to teach would have had fun with. It's a generator for making motivational posters so here's one I made with one of my favorite quotes...

I can see this poster appearing on the wall of my classroom in the future :-)

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

Hello... my name is Judy...

... and I'm a Facebook addict...

I must admit I haven't been keeping up with the whole "Learning 2.0" process of late, since discovering Facebook! It has been an almost daily ritual for me to log on and check out what's been happening with my 'friends' (I've made quite a few new friends in the various groups that are on there) as well as getting and giving stories, advice, jokes etc on everything from teaching and learning to toilet training! It really is amazing how quickly and easily I can connect with such a variety of people on an amazing array of topics!

So I'm hoping to get back to "Learning 2.0" in the very near future - maybe I could start a "Learning 2.0" group on Facebook???? What do you think, Roberto??? ;-)