Using Delicious for Education & Pro D |
|
| Stop trying to maintain those web pages with links of classroom or professional resources! Tedious to maintain & hard to keep current. Delicious is a social bookmarking software that allows users to access bookmarks from virtually any internet connection, network with others, & dynamically generate an annotated links page. Delicious can be used for a your classroom or professional learning no matter your class grade level. Julia Hengstler, Educational Technologist & Instructor (Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University) will provide examples, tips and strategies-- including uses of Delicious in elementary school and beyond. This will be a hands-on session where attendees will create & manage a professionally geared Delicious account, gain access to Julia’s resources, learn to tag bookmarks with useful data & network with others. Come and learn about this powerful collaborative tool. When paired with Twitter it makes for a dynamic educational duo! | |
|
Audience: General |
|
| Schedule for: |
|
| Room: | B 101 |
| Instructors: |
Julia Hengstler Nanaimo, BC Julia Hengstler is currently the Educational Technologist and an Instructor at the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC. Prior to joining Vancouver Island University, Julia spent over a decade teaching grades 6-12 (including adult night school) covering subjects across all major subject areas including second language, in both traditional & non-traditional settings. During her career, Julia has served on the executive of the Educators for Distributed Learning PSA (BCTF) as well as on the executive of the BC Computer Curriculum Consortium. Long a supporter of technology since her introduction to computers in the early 1980’s, Julia shares her resources with her faculty & the field via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/jhengstler , Delicious http://www.delicious.com/jhengstler, her Faculty of Education EdTech site http://www.viu.ca/education/edtech as well as her blog http://jhengstler.wordpress.com/ A published author, you might have seen some of her work in Education for a Digital World (Chapter 8 in part 2), Adminfo (Dec. 2008 & Oct.2007), Leadership in Focus or Academic Exchange Quarterly (June 2001). Contact Julia via email Julia.Hengstler@viu.ca . Julia.Hengstler@viu.ca |
» back to the previous page