Two delicious tools: improved search, and an online portfolio October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Online, Personalised learning environments (PLE), Social networking , add a commentFirst, del.izzy, which addresses one limitation of the standard delicious search, enabling you to search all of the content of the pages you bookmarked. But they claim they need your password for this.
Second, a clever way of setting up an online portfolio on delicious. Michele Martin outlines how it works, using the optional tag description field to head the page with an introduction, and then tagging anything you wish to show up there.
A neat idea: not the most beautiful, but it works, and is easy to update. It has two other benefits, says Michele Martin:
- The del.icio.us feature that shows how many other people saved the item acts as a kind of “recommendation” system. […]
- If people sign up for the RSS feed to this tag, they can automatically be notified when I add new items to my portfolio.
And then of course there’s the RSS feed to do other things with, if you want to take it one step further and embed that somewhere, have it post automatically to a blog… etc
Teaching and learning for digital (multimedia) journalism June 28, 2007
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Online, SoTL, Social networking, Teaching resources, WJEC, convergence, journalism education, learning , 1 comment so farReflections from a syndicate at the World Journalism Education Congress — I’ve been part of a group of journalism lecturers discussing adapting journalism education to a digital age. Guy Berger from Rhodes University has blogged about this (and other points from WJEC).
The content of what we teach and what students learn (including skills) has formed a large part of discussions — but today we’ve also focused on how: teaching and learning strategies (hooray!).
I argue that teaching and learning needs to reflect more of the characteristics of digital journalism (and Web 2.0). This involves plenty of approaches and methods that have much to recommend them on proven pedagogical grounds, such as:
- collaborative and interactive student-led group projects
- open-ended assignments that foster exploration
- peer feedback and assessment
- enquiry- (or problem-) based learning (EBL/PBL)
- students negotiating their own assignments and assessment criteria
- students as fellow-explorers (even teachers)
- lecturers as facilitators of learning
- learning to make decisions on the basis of incomplete information
- business models for journalism (and ‘new media’)
- entrepreneurship skills and understanding.
I hope some of this makes it to the final session at the WJEC…
deli.cio.us meets education: social bookmarking for educators June 4, 2007
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Academic, Education, Research, SoTL, Social networking , add a commentEdtags caught my eye: a sector-specific deli.cio.us. And education has plenty of web-using professionals to make it worth trying. It says it has more than 17,000 bookmarks so far, and unsurprisingly much of the content and many of the users appear to be based in North America. The developers have made it compatible with deli.cio.us, which seems sensible.
Still early days, which perhaps is why nothing came up when I searched for “peer assessment”. However, 63 hits for “assessment” — and even 13 for “journalism”.
This is from the Edtags blurb about the project, which seems to have evolved out of an initiative at Harvard (the splendidly named Edtags Sociosemantic Networking Project):
Edtags.org is a website for educators (e.g., teachers, education graduate students, professors, librarians, etc.) to connect with people sharing similar interests, discover relevant materials that may have “eluded” the traditional card catalogue search, and store and categorize your favorite bookmarks.
One to come back to when I have more time to explore more thoroughly. Meanwhile, it’s, erm, bookmarked.