PLN

In an effort to tidy up my blog surrounds, I have transferred all my live feed rolls to my Personal Learning Network page. If you would like to see what I'm currently bookmarking/tweeting etc on Twitter, Slideshare, Vodpod, Diigo, take a look. I have only one issue. I had a "My Delicious" live feed widget on my blog but it mucked up during the transfer and I had deleted it. Now I cannot find another Delicious sharing widget. Any links I have found lead to dead ends. So if you know of the whereabouts of a "Share My Delicious" widget, please please let me know.

The Diigo Dimension

A few weeks back I joined Diigo but it wasn't until last night that I had the chance to look around and explore. I have joined a few groups such as elearning 2.0, Project Based Learning, Literacy with ICT, Cool Tools for Educators and Teacher-Librarians. I've said it before but I'm continually blown away with how much information you can obtain from the internet. By joining groups on Diigo and networking a TL has access to an amazing amount of information and ideas. I've subscribed to receive weekly updates from my groups and I've found some really great stuff this way. If you're like me and only just finding out about all these great networking sites, then check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.diigo.com/

Housekeeping & PLNs

I spent the morning tidying and reorganising the Portal. I wanted it to be a bit more user friendly and practical. I also wanted to include a page for my personal learning network (PLN) after reading about it in the latest SCAN magazine (Vol 30 Number 4 2011). If you can get yourself a copy, Ruth Buchanan's article, "Developing a Personal Learning Network" is well worth a read. Many school libraries subscribe to SCAN and probably wouldn't mind lending a copy. For CSU students, the current issue isn't available yet online in the library. I've also begun compiling lists of tech and TL resources, some of which were on My Delicious but I wanted them all in one place. I also spend more time on the blog then perusing the delicious stacks. It also meant I could delete the useful websites list on my main page and free up the space for something more interesting. Note that I have changed the "Selection Aids" page to "Selectn & Weedg" - shortened to fit into the allowed space - and also to include weeding resources that I've found. One of my favourite is "Awful Library Books" who I've been following for a while via Twitter. They feature some library books that you can't believe were still on some library shelf somewhere. Hope you find my new pages useful! I would love to get some comments and while you're at it, if you regularly check in to the Portal, please follow me on Google Friend Connect. Just another way to extend that personal learning network!