This week I played around with flickr and with delicious (plus podcasting and Voice Thread over the last few weeks) so even though I haven’t been particularly visible online to everyone, I have been working on social media.
Musings… I feel much more comfortable with flickr than I did before. Enjoying creative commons and made a lovely poster of Doors of Auckland into a blog posting. Of course, our teaching year hasn’t officially started yet, so it will be a while before I get comments. It would be great to use flickr with my students, probably 75% of whom would cope happily with registering etc. I think I have to decide how many applications I’m going to ask them to sign up for and what are the most useful ones.
I’ve been playing with VoiceThread to use too, and wondering whether this might be better, and also whether you can sign up to VoiceThread if you are NOT K-12 or an educator, as something I read suggested. I’ve tried an intro at Jan 08.
delicious - now I’m starting to feel quite comfy with this, although I have only uploaded a minimal no of the sites saved under favourites. I can see the value for me, but need to work on the value for my students. If I found it confusing to start with, it might be a high learning curve for half my students - and to what end? I can see that in the future it may well be something that we do automatically.
Success - have thoroughly enjoyed listening/discovering podcasts for myself, and plan to make a whole pile for and with my students this year. So watch the souNZ English space! I feel excited about all this - has only taken two years for it to kick in from back in EVO 06! But also it’s about having the opportunity to use social media with my students in relation to curriculum requirements etc.
