Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Facilitating Collaboration - Week 3

This week was a great learning experience. I was able to use Flickr and get used to how that service worked. This is something that I had been wanting to do but just had not committed the time to the project until now. I can see where teachers might be able to use this in their classroom with posting artwork, activities, and more. For me, I can see a personal use but not a professional use. I also used Flickr to post to my blog. It was extremely easy to setup and use.

The RSS reader was also quite informative. I had been following RSS feeds for a number of years. Until now, each RSS site was bookmarked and I checked each one individually. The reader now allows me to view all updates without going to multiple sites. If teachers knew about RSS feeds and readers it could save them lots of time and energy browsing different sites.

I am most excited about using Google Sites. I have already started working on a web site for our tech department. This will be used for professional development (videos, documents) for my staff. I am hoping to link our ticketing system to a page so all teachers can go to one page to search our knowledge base, submit a trouble ticket, and get professional development.

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