Monday afternoon will see our second del.icio.us workshops held in 4/5K. Please bring your laptop with you, because you’ll be setting up an account with the social bookmarking site.

Cherie and Rebecca have kindly offered to help you through the sign up in my absence. It’s so easy, however (it’s all done in three steps), that you could do it yourself!

In fact, if you can’t make it tomorrow afternoon and want to do it yourself, let me direct you to a few resources that will show you what to do.

Tech-Ease, from the University of South Florida, have a series of simple videos that show you everything from registering to using subscriptions.

• You can also subscribe to the movies as podcasts through the iTunes store.

The Tech-Ease video is done using the Apple Mac browser, Safari. The installation of the buttons is a little different in Internet Explorer, but still easy to do. Here’s how it’s done on the del.icio.us site. Don’t worry too much, though; installing the buttons is part of the sign-up process.

Photo: Thumbnails in del.icio.us

I found my way to this video a short time ago and found it to be very interesting.  What makes it so “real” is that it’s the result of asking students about how they learn.  Despite its tertiary origins, it still provides food for thought across all levels of education.

Yesterday saw the first Multimedia Monday workshop for this term; the first in a four-part series on Social bookmarking the del.icio.us way.

At yesterday’s session, we explored why you would want to go to the trouble of setting up your bookmarks in a del.icio.us account rather than use the existing “Favourites” or “Bookmarks” on your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari).

In fact, if you’re someone who uses more than one web browser program, or more than one computer (i.e. every teacher in the school), or likes to share their new “fave” websites with others, then del.icio.us is actually less trouble (not more) than maintaining your existing bookmarks. It’s proven to be an excellent tool for collecting grade resources this year.

So, why use del.icio.us? Well, if you missed the session yesterday, then here is a short video to give you the info.

Also, here are the slides from a presentation made by Judy O’Connell at the 2007 Catholic Education Commission Learning With Web 2.0 Forum.

[slideshare id=72623&doc=social-bookmarkingdelicious-expos4375&w=425]

Don’t forget that the next session, which will help you to get signed up with del.icio.us, is being brought forward to next Monday (29 October). Bring your laptop with you to 4/5K.

The K12 Online Conference is now on. The theme is Playing With Boundaries, which is quite appropriate considering how the traditional boundaries of professional learning are being played with through this online format. It’s a free conference run by volunteers which you can participate in at your own time. Simply visit the site, download and view/listen to the presentations, and contribute in your own way. Make sure that you remember, however, that your own reflection and contributions will be essential to enhancing your learning experience. I’m hoping to provide my own reflections on my blog.

Presentations start coming online this week, the main week of the conference. Already a pre-conference keynote by David Warlick was posted on Tuesday, generating good discussion for leading into the presentations on the specific strands. Warlick’s keynote was also followed with live online chat, and the other presentation strands will do likewise - check out the site, the conference schedule and updates on the K12 Online Conference blog.

Meanwhile, to tempt you a little more with what’s on offer at K12 Online 07, take a look at the Presentation Teasers.

See you back at work tomorrow.

I hope everybody’s enjoying their holiday at the moment. I’ve already seen a couple of people, but I know I’ll catch up with more of you during the week.

I’ve just been looking at a few things and thought about where we’ve got to so far with CENet. A number of classes are already under development, and it may be that you will want to start sharing those classes with others very soon. This may involve giving your colleagues access rights, or even rights to assist you in maintaining the class.

To help you with this next step, I’ve put together a little video which shows you how it’s done. This was made with a fantastic piece of software called Jing. Jing’s is a free program available for Windows or Mac that can take still images of your computer desktop, or record short movies with sound of what you do on your desktop. The movies can then be saved in a flash format and shared with others (like we’re doing here!). It could be a great tool for capturing a demonstration of something you want children to do on the computer for their later reference. It could also allow students to capture how they do something on the computer so the rest of the class can learn how - endless possibilities!

swf (Flash) file, 5MB