After two days of eLearning class, I started my first assignment for that class. We are asked to increase our digital footprint. So for students that have never blogged, they can start a blog. And students that do not use Facebook or LinkedIn they can add those "services". I however do all of the above, so needed (and wanted) to increase my digital footprint, so today, I made the leap and registered my own website!
Yep, I am going to create a website all about me! Kinda of egocentric huh? Oh, well, according to our fine instructor, it is wise to have a presence on the web to share your work with the world. I took the leap and we will see how it goes. I will let you all know when the design and content of the site actually goes up. Right now it is just a parked site, so nothing to see. I am very excited to work on this.
We also learned about Diigo and Delicious, social bookmarks. Very interesting! These social bookmarks allow a registered user to mark sites that are of interest for them and save them all in one space, so say for example, I am doing research on a learning theorist, I can save all my links in one place and if one of my student colleagues would like to learn more about this theorist, then they can subscribe to my bookmarks! I am not sure that the general population has realized the value that these tools can bring to education and work. Anyway, I also have a ton of reading to do, so enough with working on the fun stuff that I WANT to do and now to focus on what NEEDS to be done!
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I hate to point this out - but you're cheating... ; ) We had to do webpages in grad school - remember?? Granted I'm sure none of them are still active.... so maybe it's not necessarily "cheating" because if you're just increasing web presence the old one isn't there anymore... but you do know how to do it already... ; )
ReplyDeleteAgain - if you're going to have a blog you must WRITE in it. Otherwise it's not really worth it...
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