del.icio.us (Follow-up Info from In-service)

If you haven’t had a chance to set up a del.icio.us account, I highly suggest you do so! It’s probably my favorite tool!

del.icio.us website

What is del.icio.us? Here’s a video to explain.
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How to Sign up

Delicious Handout (pdf)

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Click Here to Install Browser Buttons (Internet Explorer)

Using the Delicious Network (Another video from Liz):
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Whether you sign up or not, you can always look through the bookmarks of other people!

Salem ITRT del.icio.us Accounts

Counting Down until VSTE 2008

I’m pretty excited about the upcoming VSTE Conference starting Sunday at Hotel Roanoke. Conferences are a major source of professional development for me…and one way I stay on top of the up and coming trends in Instructional Technology. This is the first and only conference I’ve been able to attend for almost a year and a half, so I can’t wait!! I’m also excited about the prospect of connecting with people I’ve been communicating with via Twitter, Second Life, Ning, and other means (but either have never met in person or haven’t seen in a long time). It will be good to see familiar faces from nearby schools systems, as well, and catch up. I learn so much from getting to talk with other people in the Instructional Technology field.

If you don’t have a chance to attend VSTE in person, you can always attend virtually. The easiest way to see what all the attendees are learning/sharing/doing is to use a service called HitchHikr. Attendees to the conference (hopefully) will tag their blog entries, pictures, videos, bookmarks, etc. with “VSTE2008” so that Hitchhikr will pick up their posts. On a smaller scale, the Salem ITRTs usually take notes on the SCSTech Wiki, so you can look there too if you want to see what things strike our fancy. Personally, I’ll be blogging as I run across great ideas, and I’ll be tagging links in del.icio.us too so that I can share with others back at school. Maybe I can find an idea or two that I can pass along to you! I can’t wait!

HitchHikr for VSTE2008

Delicious tags for VSTE2008

Salem Attendees’ Notes for VSTE2008

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