01.21.08
Learning about RSS
Posted in Social Media in ELT tagged aggregators, RSS at 12:31 am by editasaluzzo
Really simple syndication. I have just started my duties for the second week at SMielt. I found out that my feed url is the same as my weblog url + the word feed. Then I typed it at the News aggregator and saw part of my first post there.
Today I also learned a bit more about dotSub, which looks really juicy!
I liked this video about RSS. Watch it!
01.18.08
SOCIAL MEDIA in ELT
Posted in Social Media in ELT, Uncategorized tagged EVO 2008, opening accounts at 11:46 pm by editasaluzzo
I am attending the workshop at EVO TESOL2008. I´m opening all the accounts to get acquainted with applications to explore social media tools. It´s a tedious process but I realise that it´s the way to get familiarized to applications. I opened my Flick and Googlereader last year. I´ve read about how useful del.icio.us is. and now that I´ve opened my own account I can see it´s great cooperative bookmarking. I think it´s going to be very useful for teacher training workshops.
I´ve also read about “the wonders of Twitter”, but can´t still think of uses for it. Just socializing could be a good reason to use it. Anyway, it´s easy to update, but I have not yet set it to my IM.
Definitely I can grasp Communitywalk usefulness, but find it a bit complicated for my skills at the moment.
Thanks to the forums in SMielts I´m learning useful tips to manage this blog in WordPress. Definitely blogger is easier to use but WP is more complete. I have still to open my account at dotSub, which I guess will be useful to manipulate videos and film for EFL. Let´s see.