Jo's+TiLL+Learning

17 April 2008

My colleague Jocelyn ran a fantastic session for us on wikis, blogs and social bookmarking.

She introduced us to wikipaces and showed us some of the wikis she uses as a tool for her ICT clusters to keep in touch and learn from each other. They were the inspiration for this page. Wikispaces is currently offering free wikis (free of charge and, even better, free of advertising) for educational purposes. You can check out this offer on their homepage. It hasn't taken me long to set up this wiki so I'd encourage you to have a go... Jocelyn's helpful guidelines on getting started with wikis and blogs are on the Technical Tips page

Social bookmarking was completely new to me but since setting up a [|Del.icio.us account], I'm absolutely hooked. The system allows you to save and categorize url's (web addresses) on the web - so they are always accessible even if you're not using your own computer. It makes it easy to search as rather than scrolling through my very long "favourites" list, I can just look through the sites I have tagged as French or ICT. But the best part is that when you tag (save) a url you can see how many other people have also tagged it, and you can link to their Del.icio.us account and see what other links they have saved. Fantastic if you are researching a particular topic; you get to take advantage of all the research other people have already done!

26 May 2008

I learnt more about the collaborative potential of wikis, and how very user-friendly this Wikispaces one is over the weekend. One of our number (who shall remain nameless) accidentally removed all the content of the Members page. (possibly it was a disgruntled Woodstock resident/fan?) With a bit of judicious navigation through the "Edit Space" option I was able to restore the previous version in no time. Hint: The key words are history and revert if you ever have a problem like this.