Studying

Social networking can be applied to study. Social bookmarking of web sites and social bookmarking of books bring the world as a village into play to assist with study - at least sometimes. RSS (Real Simple Syndication) literally brings brings your information to your computer or mobile device. This session is designed to introduce Del.icio.us (representing a number of social bookmarking services for web sites), LibraryThing (a social library resource), and Google Reader (representing a wide array of RSS aggregators). ** Performance Record ** Here Delicious and RSS are more important than LibraryThing. I doubt that I really have to encourage you too much on Delicious, because the advantages are obvious in a school setting such as you have.

RSS, on the other hand, may be a sleeping technology. It is particularly useful when you develop a reading list of blogs and join the blog community. Virtually all blogs have RSS feeds. Yet, blogs come a bit later in your learning curve.

For your Performance record email, simply describe a bit of your Delicious experience - how easily you set up a site and what sorts of things you found searching the keyword subject clouds. I also would like to know if you set up Google Reader or an RSS bookmark on your bookmark toolbar - and what it content it was to which you subscribed.