Class Notes 2/26: Tools, Blog Types, Presentations

Flock- mash-up social software app.
connect to flicker, blogger, youtube, facebook, all in the same place.
a little slow, but good.
Google Reader and Delicious = library of commonly used sites that can be placed into iGoogle on your homepage for easy access.
Google Doc - all can collaborate on docs, open source, similar docs of Word.
Stephen Downes blog: OLDaily

Types of Blogs:
According to WordPress.com personal is the broadest of categories.
Banned blogs: re-publish, SEO blogs, get rich quick schemes, pirated blogs.

Presentations:
1. Tagging, Social Bookmarking, and Folksonomies
Social Bookmarking (tagging):
Delicious, citeulike.com (application does the tagging), furl, magnolia.com
organize and categorize info, sharing, discovery, mash-ups
Folksonomies -- a method of collaboratively tagging intended to make info easy to access
Brainpath.com ---elearning community
all classification methods
2. Joshua: RSS
you can set up an RSS news screen saver (go in screen saver settings)
not all sites have RSS, but you can know by preforming a search or looking for the orange icon
feed
RSS in Blogs:
Atom is an alternative to RSS
you have control over what you see, you can shorten, take away graphics
click on subscribe to: Posts(Atom)...in Safari
Firefox has own tab for RSS options
RSS readers: on podcasts, iGoogle, Looking Forward

Homework:
21st Century Learning:
read article, take notes with Freemind Map, post map to wiki and/or blog

Web 2.0 Tools to Use:
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/welcome?name=cantos
VoiceThread: VoiceThread.com